It's an interesting idea, but I think the site's voting system is a reasonable compromise already.

If I'm interested enough by a node to be curious about its reputation, I'll upvote it to find out. That's not a huge problem...

BTW, Ovid++ for pointing out Abigail-II's inside out objects post. It's up to a rep of 23 after my upvote. There's one node I didn't have to wonder about upvoting... :)
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Mike