Rating the critics? I don't know if you ever lurk around Amazon's website...but there's a message board for those who review books (and other stuff). I happened upon it and started reading the posts out of curiosity. Holy crap...you think people get bent out of shape over the voting here? There, they have this whole culture developed around critiquing and getting votes on the critiques and critiquing each other's critiques and attaining this level or that, etc. And of course, there are ways to rig the system. Personally, I think if we started judging and rewarding the critiques, we'd only be adding to some of the unsolvable problems we already have. Unless there's a system of that nature that works (at a site as large as this), then I might change my opinion.