new ball rating system- # of balls divided by number of posts. A lot like old system, but basically you don't get anything more posting excess or unnecessary posts. You get a rating higher if you post well, preferably in smaller impact posts.
I don't htink more posts makes a better community be default. I think better posts makes a community. Think of it like a newspaper. Everybody reads a well written well edited newspaper, imagine trying to sell a paper where everyone can just submit whatever they want for endless pages.....
If they do that, then they should lower the "1 ball per 12 hours to the same user" rule to no time limit, or maybe "1 ball per 1 hour to the same user".
12 hours is far too long.
no limit then, could lead to another form of spam. I just thinking of a user who runs through the Forum and one balling every post he see or by a user and generates tons of messages without sense.
At least for forum active people, like us it could be a bit problematic if someone make fun of it.