I think a good way to do it might be to just allow + and - votes, and then show them both seperately. i.e. Skyride - +4/-932

I think a good way to do it might be to just allow + and - votes, and then show them both seperately. i.e. Skyride - +4/-932

But isn't this already the case?

Well, you could just allow +1 votes and not -1 votes. But I'm not sure how useful that would be.

They'll end up joining a Deek or Dummy style team that will fold every 5 minutes :].

[...] You have 5 players, you are looking for a new soldier. You decide to trial a player. That player should be trying his best to give a good impression, not ass licky, just show you himself at his best. When you decide to take him on as an official player, you are now all equal. Nobody is really doing each other a favour simply by being a team together, you've all just mutually decided that it's something you enjoy.

[...] This is a fair point, but I'm sure a better model could be devised than simply a reddit-esque system.

[...] what have you been drinking? the marjority of players in my team is very much doing me a favour by playing in my team. and surely i'm not the only one who thinks this?

Actually it goes both ways, if you're a new team especially. A negative/positive rating system seems pointless to me and having a team over rate themselves with -30 negative votes compared to say +5 isn't going to solve problems of unstable teams.

[...] The point of a recruitment section is for teams to find players, not players to find teams. Think about it for a minute, that's an important distinction to make it. The oweness is on the player to be appealing to a team, not a team to be appealing to a player. You are not doing them a favour by playing for them, they are allowing you to join them, and over time become an equal. I think if people actually treated player/team relationships like this in TF2 (as is the case in every single other concievable thing in life), then we'd have a lot more activity and far more stable teams.

Then what's the point of being able to comment on people's topics?

[...] The point of a recruitment section is for teams to find players, not players to find teams. Think about it for a minute, that's an important distinction to make it.

Don't see the point. Point of Recruitment post is so people know where to go when they need a player, this isn't a popularity contest.

[...] I have seen many people be very honest about what they aim for and some who are way off and imagine teams searching for people will find it hard to tell which is which. Hopefully something like this would give some more indication.