Originally Posted by bollar
It's a shame that new visitors to FT have no viable way to determine which posters offer valuable and accurate advice and which ones do not. There are several multi-thousand post members who regularly post incorrect advice on the boards I read and I'm all in favor of a system that makes it much easier for our new members to get useful information from FT.
Note that there is the new rate-a-thread feature, as opposed to a personal rep feature. The advantage to a rate-a-thread rating is that you can rate of thread based upon the quality of the advice therein. And since often, popular topics are addressed within many different threads, the best threads will survive and grow, whereas the "defective" threads will fall in the queue.