I think this is a very cool feature that I'm trying to use more often. It provides a form of anonymous feedback on which the OP can make future judgements about whether or not they should start a thread (or how they can rephrase their ideas based on previous positive/negative feedback in order to make their thread more conducive to collaboration/discussion). It doesn't (IMHO) reflect my (or the (anthropomorphized) forum's) opinion of the member, only the quality of the original post, and how much (subjectively) useful discussion can be generated from it.
So i guess I'm just encouraging people to rate threads more (or start)...
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