[quote=@Mahz]
Here's the rating system summed up in an image:

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/quq37nq1583x0lf/9wzt514q.png[/img]

- Without the rating system, would two people have posted? No.
- Did the rating system prevent two amazing posts from being written? No.
- Did it lower the barrier to feedback and enhance [@Captain Jordan]'s post? Yes.
- Did [@TheMaster99] sheepishly like it? Yes.
- Is it kinda funny/fun? Yes.
- Did some people think that revealing user post-count and join-date would lead to peen-measuring contests? Yes.
- Did it lead to peen-measuring contests? No.
- Does anyone care about post count? No.
- Does anyone care about join date? No.
- Will anyone care about aggregate ratings? No. Not until proven otherwise, and I'm always willing to be wrong.

But I'm rarely wrong. :magnum

What I actually do need help with:

- I need people with opinions about the Etherpad integration to give me ideas for how to implement it. What would be the most useful for them? Does anyone have a vision?
- I need people with opinions about the dice integration to also give me ideas. What's the ideal?
[/quote]

Wonderful. Though I do have one more idea regarding the format of ratings. I'm in favor of moving the rating to the bottom left of the post. In my opinion, that way, it's less intrusive, and doesn't interrupt the immediate flow from post to post. Would you (or anyone else) support that idea?

I'll look into the code and implementation of Etherpads. I believe they should be fully optional/toggleable. That way, it doesn't eat into mobile user data, since live feed bites a chunk out of it.

With dice, I had a bit of an idea. What if, for example, when a dice was rolled, it put the result into its own post, almost as if the dice roller was a user. Though, it should be smaller than a full post, taking up a line or so, and with every roll made by a user at once into a hider. I think that way, you won't have huge pages of dice rolls being displayed, but instead, something that looks like

[hider=Legend's Roll]
A 20 sided die was rolled. The result was 6.
[/hider]

^Which would be standing alone by itself. That way, a user cannot edit and cheat it, nor will it take up too much space.