What points are you talking about, Ersatz Man?
There was a smite/applaud system that gave a +1/-1 to "karma" of a user in the old forums, but it was abused almost straight away, with users who disliked each other driving their karma into far negatives, which didn't necessarily reflect the degree of their constructive participation on the forums. Thus, it's best that instead of having one person (or many people) be a subjective judge (or give a subjective cumulative average), let everyone decide for themselves- there is a very easy way to see all posts of a person by going to their profile, and checking the "latest posts by user" link at the bottom of their profile. I don't think people will have too much trouble identifying those who write interesting posts and provide food for thought.
