Deny Ignorance - For Real (Site Suggestion)

I have a viable idea that would be a very useful feature and should also be relatively easy to implement.

The ATS motto is "Deny Ignorance"

Unfortunately, any system with so many users will inevitably be swamped with ignorant comments. And unfortunately, to my knowledge, ATS has no simple way of filtering out ignorance. This method is very similar to DIGG except for the additional ability to set one's own tolerance level.

I propose a rating system that will allow users to set an 'ignorance filter' to decide how much ignorance they are willing to endure.

The system is quite simple, and similar to the current "star" rating system.

Each post will start with a rating of 1.
Each user can rate the post once. Either +1, or -1
If a user thinks the post is ignorant, they vote -1
If a user thinks the post is valuable, they vote +1

Here comes the cool part.
Each user can decide what level of ignorance they wish to tolerate.

For example, I can set my ignorance tolerance to -5,
so the content of any post having a rating of -6 or less will be hidden from me. I should still be able to click the title of the post to see the full post (using _javascript and DHTML, or AJAX)

Or I could set my ignorance tolerance to +10 so that I only see awesome posts.

DenyIgnorance.com is taken if this is your meaning

[edit on 1/4/2009 by theindependentjournal]

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u forgot the 'C' in Ignorance

unless I am missing something?

We thank you for sharing your ideas with the intent of making ATS a better more user friendly place. The staff and owners do appreciate member feedback and have always considered your thoughts and wishes when making changes to the board. So thank you for caring so much about this community that you created this thread.

By keeping all member suggestions in one place it allows staff and owners the ability to quickly and thoroughly access all member recommendations when considering board changes. Otherwise many suggestions will be very difficult to locate considering the size of this board.

Understanding that we would appreciate it if you would add your thoughts/recommendations to the official thread dedicated to members suggestions for board change.

ATS, BTS, What would you like to see in the future?

Thanks for your contributions and understanding. I will now close this thread for the reasons stated above.

Thanks,
ATS Staff

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