A big gold star for Kate. I agree with you but since so many people seem to have a need for this sort of thing, this new idea might give us more honest results. I have no plans to enable ratings on my pics and haven't been rating others for a couple of weeks now. Call me a wimp if you like but that's not what art is about to me. I do hope that if they decide to implement this new system that this time we're given the option of not including a rating with our comments.