[Rickertsen2]

I think that the single simplest and most effective thing that could be done would be to simply make feedback from all people count equally regardless of the ranking of the person giving the feedback. Why should feedback from someone like Dave Lavery Count any more than feedback from someone like Billy Nobody. If you help Billy Nobody , why is that any less noble than doing something that Catches Dave's eye. This sort of thing turns reputation into an elitist club of sorts. The vast majority of point are being doled out by a select few. I am not familiar with the structure of the reputation system but i would guess that this would be a very mild hack. At the very least, the influence of the reputation giver's reputation should be reduced or perhaps make the influence logarithmic, arctan or something else like that.

It would also be a good idea to to display user's post/rep ratio in addition to their rep and post count. This would be at most a 10 minute hack but would be quite valuable

In addition, it would be helpful to see an additional reputation category added for technical helpfulness/accuracy.