Tom's Rating System - User Accountability

This morning I had been reading one of the News articles and the User Replies. Then a little while later I went back to read it over again and I noticed something which should not have happened.

Someone had gone through ALL the replies and given every reply a negative rating, even the positive comments.

So some comments which had a +1 were now at "0" while others were at -1

I have noticed stuff like this happen previously and also I have noticed both in the News section and in the forums that occasionally if someone dislikes someone else, they will sometimes mark a bunch of that users posts/replies negative.

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So what I would like to see in the Rating System is User Accountability.

That is when someone rates someone's post negative or positive, their username becomes attached to that rating. If someone would like to see who did what for rating, they could click their mouse on the rating total which would bring up a list of who rated positive and who rated negative.

This way we could also keep track of trolls who think it's funny to rate someone negative for no reason what so ever.

We could tack the rating system one step further by requiring the user to give a reason for the Rating they decided to give.

I have seen this sort of Rating system feature on some other forums.