Original Member, Ambassador: External Miles and Points Resources
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Digital Nomad Wandering the Earth - Currently in LIMA, PERU
Posts: 58,620
The problem is that anything subjective (qualify-able, opinion of post or poster) rather than objective (quantifiable, such as number of posts) is ripe for abuse.
When the poster and thread-rating feature was turned on, adolescent abuse was rampant with posters dinging other posters with low ratings or high ratings as both a game as well as a pathetic attempt to denigrate.
Status should be conferred on an objective, quantifiable basis or (better yet) not at all.