heres my idea (debatable) : If Lb develops a system to have so called "leagues" per say, somthing along the lines of maybe Rookie, Lightweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight, etc.....Users would have to SLOWLY progress from one stage to another judging on skill, respect, vouchs, wins (debatable) and could ONLY pass through with vouchs from Mods, Champs, FVC's, etc (debatable)......great thing i learned from video games that i feel incorperates into this site is that, Everyone wants to win, everyone wants to beat the game, everyone wants to be the best. and i think that drive to "win the game" will keep ppl more active , thus bring in more votes and make people WANT to get more educated...........HOWEVER there are some big questions such as "what would you do with all the exsisiting users?" and "How will we keep people voting?"........allthough i dont have answer to the first question, i do have one for the second.
(and weather or not this league is takin into effect, i believe we should do this regardless) To keep votes coming in: i have come to understand that theres an extreme lack of voting these days...We could perhaps boost the number of credits you need to Start/Accept battles so that people HAVE to vote...and i can speak on behalf of most of the ummmm "worthy" members of this site and say that if theres a DOPE battle between 2 emcees, we have NO PROBLEM peeping and voting educated, not for the credits, its because we THOUROUGHLY enjoy the read. Ive been on this site for a long time, and ive seen the progress its made, and im confident that there will be more...people just gotta have