RE: What does the score mean?
It seems to me that users of RCU have no trouble figuring out what post are useful and which aren't. I don't think you need a scoring system, especially one that has such potential for abuse. Now if you made users accountable for their rating by means of a reason, that might be different. But I still think we could do without it.
GBU was a lot more useful.
My pennies worth.