you've currently got:

ipb_styles.css:2678
.post_body {
margin-left: 235px;
line-height: 100%;
}

.post_block.no_sidebar .post_body {
margin-left: 0px;
}

.post_body .post {
margin-top: 3px;
padding: 10px;
line-height: 150%; /* <--- chrome says this is being matched, and it looks bloody ugly */
}


I'm not sure as to the origins of this sentiment that discussing problems with the new site is somehow equivalent to whining or attacking the developers, but it's patently ridiculous. When you support a software product, you don't consider users submitting feedback and bug reports as personal attacks, do you? I know for me, user feedback is ALWAYS appreciated, even if we don't always end up making the change the user wanted. So much so, in fact, that both at work as well as in my hobbyist projects I continually reach out to users to cajole them into giving feedback. Trying to put a damper on that here seems absolutely mind boggling.

As for the rating system, it's not hard to look at the new system and determine logically what the outcome of its effects will be. You don't always have to run an experiment to know the outcome of a process. Trying to dump off the role previously filled by the rating system onto the moderators, who already have enough work to do, doesn't sound like a brilliant move to me. It's not really their job to try to run posts through the constantly fluctuating filter of community standards, and even if it were I don't think they could do it with any degree of success.
well, as said, i know it works very well in .. well, about any other forum. so yes, looking at the outcome means one thing: it should work very well here, too.

Where would they draw the line? Profanity? How about if I just call you a stupid moron? What if I followed you around and after every single one of your posts, I also posted a followup "I think everything he just said is wrong."? I bet that would get me an even higher rating, since a few people might find it funny to rate those posts up, and anyone who finds it annoying won't have any recourse but to bug the moderators to censor me when the actual content of my posts isn't breaking any rules.
I think everything he just said is wrong.


sorry, had to but that's about exactly my point: always this negativity, always this "that could go wrong in so many ways!!" how about trying and see if it does? so far, in other fories, it did not go wrong. why should this be different? are we such a bad community?

But did it go right in other forums? I can't think of a single forum I frequently read anymore that has rating up without rating down of any sort. Especially if we're de-emphasizing the per-user aspect of ratings in favor of the actual post contents. But I guess I'm just another negative nancy