I think anybody who's been on K5 for a reasonable amount of time is familiar with drduck (http://www.kuro5hin.org/user/uid:20599) and his comment rating bonanza. Anyway, I think I have a solution to the problem of "modboming" accounts which shouldn't stress a scoop server too much; Comment/moderation ratios. Heres how I envisage it working: 1) Johnny posts a comment to K5 or rates a comment on K5 2) Scoop divides the number of comments Johnny has made vs the number of comment ratings he has made and then by a comment/moderation ratio 3) If the number from (2) is less than 1 revoke Johnny's rating privilidges 4) If the number from (2) is greater than 1 then re-enable Johnny's ratings if they haven't been enabled already. This would create the following overheads: * A select to get the number of comments * A select to get the number of ratings * A select to check moderation ability * An ALTER to the comment rating ability (Optional) Optional sub-features: * Limiting users from rating until a certain number of comments have been met * Tying the comment rating ability to a user's mojo If someone thinks a beginning Perl coder can handle this one I'm game to give it a shot. Mal