I like /. rating system and I think it would work well here. I also think pulling armory data is a little biased to those who link their characters vs those who don't. The characters I have listed on the wiki are not all of my characters. I have toons in Naxx and one in Ulduar but I do not list them so while I know about those encounters and have even multiboxed in Naxx, you would not know it by my armory so I would be discounted. I could care less about my status personally, but I can see the system being abused in various ways.

While I like Ughmahedhurtz idea with the icons, but game icons are not the only thing. The whole reason this post was started was in response to a technology post. So do we need IT icons as well as game icons?