New forum changes for May

[Big Ed]

A few changes have been implemented to continue to make this the best community on the Internet.

1. The "Rep Power" feature has been disabled and replaced with...

2. A "Thanks" feature has been added. If you look to the lower right of any post, you will see a thanks (thumbs up) button. It allows users to thank people for helpful or insightful posts. You will also see that new "thanks" statistics have been added to ther information bar that appears in each post that a person makes (showing the number of 'thanks' a person has recieved or given). Each post that has thanks attached to it will also now display the users that "thanked" on that post. This is a nice way for people to support and reward great contributions. This has been in "beta" for the past couple of weeks, but is now permanent and official!

3. A new forum has been added for "other" collectibles outside of Indian relics. The community will decide if it stays or goes.

4. A couple of new announcements have been made related to site guidelines and member classifications.

That is all.