Should be an interesting change.

Something that caught my eye -

Ability to rate posts. Posts or topics below your custom rating level will be minimized.
New forum rating and new user rating system

Here's hoping these ratings won't be made public. Who needs to read x-number of users like you, x-number of users dislike you?

Any other thoughts on the change?

Thoughts? I have no thoughts.

Like you say, Steve...it should be "interesting". Posts below your custom rating level will be minimized? This update wasn't explained in the council forum, so I have no clue.

Yep... I thought they would bounce it off us as well.

Maybe the rating refers to the Hall of Famer title and the stars under our user name.

The posts and topic minimalization must refer to individual topics and users we elect to remove. I mean, we can't rate types of users or types of topics. Still, I hope it isn't a vote counting type feature - ie, 4 people like this thread, 13 people don't like it.