Another forum member wrote of their dislike of a gear rating system to determine if someone was qualified for a dungeon/raid. I generally agree since player skill is equally important. I also would much prefer a raid with people that have fun and wipe a few times than a group that completely goofs off or that is humorlessly hardcoe.

What about a player rating. You meet someone you like or dislike in the world or on a raid and you can rate them in 3 categories: PVP, PVE and amiability (friendliness). Each player has complete control over who sees the score. So if you don't want to share it no one can know it. I would see this useful for raids, guilds and PVP groups.

Everyone would get a bad rating from time to time but the average would reflect a players skill and how they get along with others. This to me far outweighs a number based on gear stats. It would add accountability to trolls and players that just like to be nasty to others.

It would just promote discrimination. Forget the ratings or scores and just have fun. The more serious players wouldn't even run pug groups, so what does it matter?

Yeah, pretty much what Echonite said. I'd never trust any game population to vote its peers in any trustworthy fashion.

This is something that would certainty be abused. Additionally, There is no skill measurement in an MMO, There is only knowledge of your abilities and how they affect/help the group. Skill is something claimed to be had by individuals looking for self assurance. What we need are people who can work within a group environment, not drag the team down with their arrogance followed by blame on others.

I find the irony of this amusing. We all come together as an MMO community to share ideas and our passions for a particular title....but at the same time we wouldn't trust ANY of us to be fair to one another if given the chance.

Bottom line right there.

Great idea Bugnguts but MMO communities are just too immature to have a system like that work as it would be intended.