Water Pokémon Master said:Doc and I talked about a "reputation" system (which I guess would be your I-Bar idea) a while ago, and we thought people would abuse it. The forums used to have a reputation system, and all anyone ever did was misuse it or abuse it. Even if just mods used it, it is hard to rank everyone, and people won't even know why they are being ranked the way they are or what they need to do to improve (and PMing people for every little thing is a pain in the neck). If forums were age-separated, people would come to learn how they need to act.
According to Absol, the I-bar will rank people, giving them negative or positive points automatically. I'm not too sure, however. If the I-bar was able to transfer the mistake to the Mod CP instead of automatically giving them more or less points (except for those which are like spam, etc.), then the mods can determine whether the points should stay, be added, or reduced.
And yes, I remember the old rep system where other members can rank you. :/ That was really bad. IIRC, one guy got 3 negatives because he/she just pointed out a few flaws in a few peoples' decks. :/