For kicks, I may work on this. How are the ratings done? Is it capped at 5 positive / negative?

edit: hmmm, im not sure what the best way of limiting the vote to once per user would be.

I am thinking that there would be a seperate table with a field for the post id and another field containing the user id's that voted already. When a user submits a vote it would check against the table before processing. How would you store the various user id's? Would you serialize the field somehow?

Is an INT that gets added/removed Reeve. Pretty easy.
It can go up to +/- 100000000 :)

Use the IP, like in the VB vote system.

sweeeeeeeet. that is it. nice! did you have to tweak it a bit to work like that?

Yeah, I probably spent around 10 hours or so editing templates, phrases, images and all of that shabang. Would probably take someone who actually knows what they're doing a lot less time though ;) And I also had to do more or less "double" work with the templates, since I had to modify GARS templates as well to get it working properly there.

All in all, I still think it will be worth it once I open up the site though ;) It's a pretty cool feature, which I'm sure you'll agree :)