It's interesting to note that the system in place has done a different job than it was originally intended to do. BUT you do have to agree that while this forum is generally well behaved, The reason behind it is many of the older members find this a good haven to discuss things related to Bungie.net and other Bungie items. It's no surprise that most of the webteams post are contained in this forum (not that it's a bad thing) and that most mods seem to "open" up more about how they deal with things on the forums here too. I think in general this is just a place where some of the older members come to post, because they know it's the most serious forum, we have our fun, we have our spam but in general we are a good forum. That's not to discredit any younger members who post here, Cause they seem to understand what this forum is for, but go to the flood or Halo 3 forum and you will see repeated topics, off topic posts, spam and just generally amusing posts. Most because they are fairly new to the site and just want answers to questions about Halo 3 or like any kind of off topic forum they are always looking for that bar. Of course I think a system in which you can earn different ranks by doing different things either in game or on the site itself is a good concept. It not only promotes you to play the games that the developer makes, but rewards you on their sites for doing so (imagine being able to show off some kind of neat title bar on the COD forums because you got the mile high club achievement. That would be cool. But also keeping the website based ratings would be nice, Yes maybe they aren't perfect, but they do seem to encourage good post a lot more than other forums, and I've seen a lot better posting around here since they were put in, With that said I'm wonder if anything like the Xbox forums icon system was ever thought of for here. Icons for good posting, good F.A.Q's and other things, Not so much the number based system itself though as that caused issues to me.