Here is a teaser image from the rating system:

Development has been going really well on this feature.  I was able to utilize a lot of the Asp.Net AJAX toolkit to make this feature work.  I’ve got it doing the actual ratings, but I haven’t written the code yet to filter based on ratings.  That is going to be the hardest part of writing this particular feature.  At the speed that development is currently going, I could see this feature being done by early next week.  I have a few other features that I want to write before doing the 3.1.8 release, but expect the release to go out the door in the next month.

I want to thank all of our Ideal BB.Net customers for taking the time to fill out the 10 question New Feature Survey. Congratulations to Robert from Sacramento for winning the 8GB ipod Nano! (You can see me drawing names out of a bowl below!)

We have taken everyone’s answers into consideration and have determined by popular vote to create a rating system as the next new feature. This rating system will allow an Ideal BB.Net user to vote on a scale of 1-5 stars for every post they read. A user will also be able to filter topics by stars, enabling only the specified star rated posts are visible. Eventually, this rating system will be incorporated into the search function.