I do not recall bouncing anyone for this, though it may have been possible. What i found out is that the energy, time and patience to follow every single thread rating was an impossible aspiration. It could not be accomplished just listening to a few "report post" type complaints but a through and fair review, of which i simply did not have the time then and possible not now. At the end of the day, i think i decided it wasn't worthy the goals of FT to try and satisfy the barrage of "you missed a thread markdown by XXXX" or the "i truly thought it was only a one star thread..." I think you all get the picture. Who knows, we may see it's revival one day, though i'd feel comfortable it being something that the TalkBoard decides on. As i recall, and i could be wrong, we simply went with the feature because it was a default in vBulletin when we moved from UBB. We didn't think or put into place any guidelines and as a result were unprepared for the actions of any member to use the feature for anything other than apparently what it was intended for in development from VBulletin.

We lived quite well without it in the early days of FT and it seems than we can live peacefully without it right now - except for the dialog about why it doesn't work on FT.

and while i can appreciate your comment about turning the feature on and off - we have an 'ignore user' feature than functions the very same way. Guess what - most of the antagonizers do not use the feature.

Thanks for the question and it's one that perhaps you might bring forth to the TalkBoard agenda forum.

Cheers,
Randy