Uh oh, I wasn't clear.

My suggestion is to get rid of the ability for members to rank gallery images from 1-5. That allows people to give somebody a poor negative rating. All it takes is one of those to drag down the overall ratings on an image. If I bother rating an image, I give it a 5. An artist can turn the rankings off when loading an image, but then their image cannot be highly rated.

There's not much point to having the 5 rankings.

Ratings exist in other media to help paying customers decide if it's worth paying for a movie, book, or album. The images here are free and the thumbnails provide a small preview of the image, so there isn't much to be gained by having a 1-5 rating.

Should the existing 1-5 rating system be removed from the galleries?

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon