Tonight I was bothered to find that a forum member, who has over 1000 posts, had the title "Professional". I do not think that this member has earned the title; I do not think that this member is a good representative of our community.

/This thread is not about that forum member./

Other websites have somewhat more nuanced rank-giving systems. I have heard references to an "infractions" system on the Elitist Jerks forum: I'm not sure how that system works. Also, Voldemort's forum* has a system where members can give each other "reputation" if they think a good post has been made: the more reputation you have, the more reputation you can give. This helps the community stay more personally involved in ranking each other.

Would it be worth reworking the forum to have a better ranking system? Does anyone besides me care?

Please be very judicious about your use of names here. I would prefer this to be as impersonal as possible- better for the thread to die an untimely death because nobody were interested than to become another flamefield.

*Not really Voldemort's. Just a website-that-must-not-be-named.