Increase socialization, incentivate members and create new ways to interact with your community, you can customize all the types of rating and you set the value of each one of them. Fun, easy to use, customizable, it's the perfect for any community!
Create your own types of rating, just set the name, icon, value, boards where allowed and if it is shown only at first post and you are ready to go. There is also a list of people who rated each post available, and every rate can be removed easily. With rates you have endless possibilities to give your community the boost it was needing!
All those "+1" or "Thank you" posts are part of the past, they were not good for SEO nor for having real discussions, with Rates your members can express in a funnier and more direct way, and the best of all is that this feature is going to increase real posting as your members are going to look for a full-green bar and several points in their profile!
Now you can promote members to member groups based on the amount of rates received! Now all those spammers are not going to be the ones in the "Super Member" group, only the people that gave real content to the community. This is a huge feature that increase relevant content instead of crappy posts!
Searching should be as fast as possible, that is why your members are going to love Rates integration with Searching, just set the minimun amount of rates required for the post or/and the topic that contains it, in that way they can be sure the content they found is actually interesting.
With rates every member of your community can be a moderator as you can set the a minimun number of rates at which a post is automatically soft-hide in order to punish those bad ass of your community!
An ordered list of rated posts is available, so you can easily find the post that actually solves the problem or provides important information. It can be disabled in administration in case that you don't like it for your forum.