How about every time someone is unessecarily negative or is just plain bieng an ass like Mut@t@ is they get minus one on thier post counter. That way he and others would go back down to 0 because there never have anything interesting to say other than put downs. Just a thought I'm sure the loser who need self esteem boost wouldn't like it but it would be fun to se. I know you wont take this serious but I think it would be an interesting idea although not easy to impliment.
Also well you be bringing back the rate this user option? If so could you make it so that people didn't have the choice on whether they got rated or not. Perhaps we could ban people that have a really bad rating because nobady likes them and they bring down the quality of the forum.