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[The Original dpb5!]

Dear Bob and Matt,

I have read the entire thread about this discussion of how an admin determines TOU and I think I have a suggestion that will help this very dilemma.

A couple of years back I was an investor in GO.COM, which has since been gobbled up by Disney.

GO.COM had a MONEY section that indeed had some of the greatest features I have ever seen on a Message Board. The very greatest of those features was a feature called "RECOMMEND". With this feature, if a reader liked and believed in what the posted message said, the reader had the ability to click on a RECOMMEND button.

What this did for the other readers was to help hone in on what the real conversation on the given board was about. Obviously, readers didn't recommend posts such as spam or half baked hyping or bashing but tended to recommend the more legitimate things like DD and News Releases.

Is this something that can be incorporated into the IHUB Website? If so, I believe that it would go a long way in neutralizing this issue of which posts or posters should be deleted or banned.

To me, all that most readers of boards want is to get to the nitty gritty messages from other posters and avoid all the inherent 'dribble drabble'. I would very much like to hear your thoughts on this idea.