Silly question:-

Since we can assign AP's to the thread _or_ the person why can't the AP system be altered so that a AP's against an individual has no effect on the status of the thread and AP's assigned to the thread itself has no effect on any user in it. In this way a (L)user can be negged to death when they post crap in a good thread but the thread remains open and their inane comments are hidden. If the thread itself is utter garbage then people can neg the thread to death and no-one in it is affected.

This would serve well because it would give a better indication of the tread content on the front page since, right now, a perfectly good thread appears as "extremely negative" if a numbnuts has appeared in it.

I know... I'm a genius....