In being able to click a thumbs up or a thumbs down on someones post.

Ask nuke

And can we 'poke' countries from the war room?

We actually discussed using a thumbs up/down system to determine whether posts count towards the weekly bonus posts

seems kinda like overkill, though :p

If we did have this option, I would thumbs down PapaSmurf's idea. Catering to popular opinion is a bad thing; its more fun when people post controversial things. In which case, Papasmurf's idea is good because its controversial ... but it also caters to popular opinion so its bad ... so its just downright confusing.