It occurred to me that a "points" system could be abused; it would be a disaster if a system intended to improve quality of information backfired and resulted in upsetting the apple cart i.e. being destructive not constructive.
I quite like the idea of a "thanks" button, as long as its not diffficult for those administering this site to implement - I've no idea how it'd work, but would be good to give & receive some feedback I think
Thanks for the reminder about rating threads & so forth: I really must explore all the features already available sometime...
P.S. my suggestion for a change of user title (if it was to be done) was simply "new member" at first, progressing to something else, like simply "member" (mike's idea) later on. That may be seen as
more boring than at present, but at least its accurate
the titles represent the amount of experience
at pedelecs, not the age nor experience of members with ebikes or anything else
Other useful member-specific information could be shown in "signatures" etc. at each members discretion e.g. bike type owned, normal usage etc.
Stuart.