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There are user reputations and topic ratings that aren't used here. The intended purpose would be along the lines of letting the members collectively associate some value to a user or to a topic, so that others might have a shortcut to quickly know quality.

User titles, tracking of post counts, is slightly used here, with just three categories: junior member, member, and senior member -- with a highest threshold of 50 or 100 or some such fairly small; few pay it much attention. User rankings, unused, are similar, but offer more flexibility.

We've discussed them all before, I think, and the administrators have made active decisions, based upon experience and wisdom, of whether or how to use them. I'd expect any member (yo, tommac) that desired to alter those decisions present a strong case for change, rather than just an unpersuasive, unsupported request.

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