Originally Posted by ether
Perhaps there could be some composite metric incorporating several quantitative and qualitative measures including: length of FT membership, frequency of site visits, number of postings, quality of posts (as rated by peers), etc. Perhaps there should be a way to "rate" the quality of a post like on cnet and other websites.
You do know that FT has over 80,000 registered members? What you suggest sounds like a major undertaking (i.e. involves money and support personnel and new software). How would you distribute these members among their peers? Doesn't sound very workable.
A rating system was tried once before (prior to your joining FT). It didn't work, and FT management turned the feature off.