Voting and ranking implemented

This is a rather large body of work. You may now vote on articles and authors and forums and photo albums (in fact it goes way beyond this, but these are implemented today). 

You may vote for as many items as you wish in any or all of the voting categories. The only gotcha' is that you can only vote once for any particular item. Otherwise, it would be called ballot stuffing, which we frown upon. 

Oh, did I mention that you can vote for yourself?

The purpose of this isn't to have a popularity contest, although that is certainly possible. The purpose is to shape the site by virtue of what the membership finds interesting and/or entertaining and/or useful. This is democracy at work. Those items with the highest number of votes will find their way to the top of the lists which contain them. In this way future visitors will find the most interesting content more easily. Anybody providing content can also get an idea of what kinds of content are most likely to be well received.

So all you have to do is click on stuff you like and it automatically makes you a managing editor.