Personally, I approve of the points system, for precisley the reasons given by Tiger Shark and SonofGalen, they provide the writer with the feedback to encourage / dissuade? them, so that, hopefully, they do not waste their and our time with threads that have been blackballed, and to concentrate more on the threads that get people talking/writing on subjects that matter to us as a whole. In that, I am using the opening lines of the site home page that says something along the lines of 'we are here to discuss PC security and faults'. Admittidly that is a little basic, but I hope you are getting the mesage, "we" are here because we have a common interest in security and OS faults, more than the state of anyones AP quotient?
