sc94597 said:
That is what the post count is for. I don't think the person is going to want to do 100 posts on 5 different accounts just so they could rate a thread low. By the time they even get all of those posts the thread could be gone and dead.
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You've obviously never been on a board where systems just like you're suggesting have been implemented. you would be surprised the lengths people go through just so they can troll specific people. Believe me, look on any board where there is any kind of meaningful rating system and every thread that is rated below average will have people bitching.
Sure, some of those threads will get rated down and deserve so it won't matter that the people bitch but others won't and that bitching will derail a perfectly good thread.
Now lets pretend I don't like you. Every time I see you post I'm going to rate down your post the lowest possible and I will always rate your threads as low as possible. It doesn't matter I only have one account, I only need one. You see that you're constantly getting rated down in every post you make (since I can easily see all your posts in your profile) and you begin bitching. You bitch in your threads and you probably even make a thread to call out the person trolling you. From there only bad things happen.
Now imagine that everyone on this site has somebody that doesn't like them. If you think about it, that's not a hard thing to imagine. Now you have every thread being rated down for no reason at all and you have people constantly bitching about being needlessly rated down.
Again, believe me that these do not work.