Quote - You mean a voting system to rate the quality of promopicture and advertising?
Somebody who has just downloaded an item isn't really able to rate the content.

Why not? I ussually check out stuff right after I D/L it. In fact... it's a better judgment. If I like it enough to come back file a positive, or hate it so much I came back to neg it.

From that end it's a little like E-bays rating system.

I think the rating system should allow user to rate items at any time.
I know I'm going to start yet another diplomatic flame war here, but we ALL rate stuff before we download it, to decide if we think it's worth filling our harddrive.
Then we rate it again after we download it.

Maybe ShareCG could even use the rating system as part of their revised revenue sharing. More popular stuff draws more traffic, so the contributor should get more IMHO.

There are problems with cliques and gaming of social rating systems like this, but I think the overall benefit of letting the users manage the site in this way out weighs any possible abuse.

I'm sure their old system was being abused anyway.
This way they don't have to dedicate personal time to anything but making the code work. The managment is done by the users.

mo·nop·o·ly  [muh-nop-uh-lee]
noun, plural mo·nop·o·lies.
1. exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market,
or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices