I have thought about all of your suggestions and began working on this project today.
Here is what I have made so far:
http://kilauea.bbspink.com/test/read.cgi/meow/1366271041/743- Let me explain about what it does.
In a board's SETTING.TXT file, we can turn on "BBS_LIKE=checked".
If that is turned on, then every new post will be created with a button to the right of the ID.
The button looks like this to start: ▲(0)
If you click that button, then the server counts your click.
If someone clicks ▲ 20 times on one post, then the triangle for that single post will look like this: ▲(20)
Currently my software is only counting the click counts and displaying them on an external server.
I still need to make a push notification to push the click counts back into the dat file.
If you login with a maru or ronin account when you make your post, then the server will automatically save the amount of clicks you get.
That way, eventually you might have thousands of ▲ points.
We can then require a certain amount of ▲ points before someone can make a new thread on Poverty or any other board.
What do you think about this system, Kenmo?