Thanks for all the feedback guys. +1s all around. It's been a while since this forum got an actual NEW feature.
So does this mean that a member can continuously up or down vote a single member so long as they wait an hour. Seems like there might be potential for abuse.
Any system can be abused. But unless that abuse becomes a problem, I'm content in my belief that the members that have stuck around, or would seek our forum out, aren't that petty. Besides, the function here is to give people a chance to give silent feedback. I don't really care about the inevitable popularity contest that comes with the score.
It's a funny coincidence that many years ago, in the old hawks scanlation forum, they had this same feature.
Ahem well... I don't much like being compared to those guys. But the karma system is built into the forum software that we use (and have used in various iterations since 2001). Others use the same software. That's about all there is to it.
We could have activated this long ago, and we had talked about it in the past, but I was usually the dissenting voice for doing so. However, after seeing Reddit's up and down voting system in action for a while, I eventually realized the benefit to it.