RE: how about LESS forums?
Score is just something we are experimenting with right now. Users can rate other users posts. This way if a user has a large number of points they might be deemed as one of the more knowledgeable or active people on the site OR we may just use it to give out prizes and perks too. Right now we just put it out there and you cannot take points away from people so it is only additive.
Glad you like the MyForums option. We built it to deal with the many forum issue you initially outlined in your first post. We actually have had that feature for at least six years since we launched this new forum software. It helps alot to get to only the stuff you want to see for sure!
marc