I don't feel strongly one way or the other, which I suppose means I don't see the need.
A thread rating system might have some value for those without enough time to read everything - forums like pprune.org, with a very high volume of posts, use thread ratings which can be a useful way of sorting the wheat from the chaff.
(Interestingly there are also large volumes of posts removed on pprune, but usually because they are just repeating a point already made or they are just drivel - NOT because they contravene some arcane rule - in other words, in the interests of readability rather than censorship of inconvenient opinions).
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