"digg" (aka Rate) individual posts

[Hicksatpd]

Hi everyone.

This is a feature I would absolutely LOVE to have on my forum.

I got the idea by browing the website digg.com.

The idea behind that site is members submit articles they think are worthy, and then if other members like it, they click to "digg it", and the site keeps track of how many times the article has been "dugg".

Well, for each article posted, users can leave comments. HERE IS WHERE I WANT TO TIE IN A FEATURE TO VB: Each comment posted can be given a green "thumbs up" or a red "thumbs down" by a user. If a comment has 0 ratings, a single "thumbs down" will give the comment a -1. If the comment reaches -10, the comment is then "hidden" (you see a bar acknowledging the post, but you have to click to read it instead of it being listed). This is what I would love to have made available for my vB forum.

The idea is, any given post can be given a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". If a post recieves, say, 28 votes, and 18 are bad, while 10 are good, that post would be at "-10". This would mean the post would then be "hidden" to where it's just a strip saying something like:

"posted by JohnDoe X hours ago - [below viewing threshold, show comment ("show comment" would be clickable, when you click, it drops open the post to be read; I would gues that 'AJAX' would be useful for this)] - X diggs *insert clickable thumbsdown here* *insert clickable thumbsup here*"

Here is a good example of what I'm talking about:

http://digg.com/science/Drug_clears_...tter_of_hours_

Thoughts? Is it possible?

I have a community on my board where I am in charge, but it's not like a lot of boards where what the boss says goes, and that's that. It's a very... opinionated group, so my prefered style as head admin is to set up the rules so that there's a lot of self-moderation (I encourage use of the ignore list, for example), and this would be perfect for me.

Tough crowd. =/