I promoted a similar concept in a thread I started last week. I was trying to achieve what I think is probably the same thing you are: another option in our attempts to find "good" content.

And I think we can all agree, as you stated in your OP, that rep is not perfect. But I agree with you that it probably can be useful at times, when used as "another option".

I think filtering would cause too many problems, though; most of which have already been pointed out by other monks. I think to use it I'd have to keep switching between different settings, and it would ultimately make the experience slower.

In my thread, Crackers2, zdog, and bobf proposed pretty much exactly what you say in the quote above. Allowing a monk to have the option of "I don't want to vote on this node", in addition to ++, --, and +=0. The idea being that you would then be shown the rep of that node. I really like that idea.

I know this wouldn't allow the ability to see, in one fell swoop, all nodes > a particular rep; but personally, I don't think I would use that ability.

But OTOH, as long as it's an option, I wouldn't be against the implementation of your filter.

TheEnigma