Or are you talking about the "thumbs up" / up vote feature we see on Reddit, so that only the most community-voted posts are seen at the top of the thread? That's a solid idea to complement the merit system because the threads shown on the first page are more likely to be read and thus more likely to get considered for a merit point.
i agree with you that will make it easy for moderators or smerit source to spot good posts with good contents and if someone think he is smart and up vote a mediocre
post or a shitty one that will simply do the opposite effect and can cuz him to get a - 1
ps : instead of this comment i could just gave you an upvote
