Quote - Is one rating a lousy rating?I allways understood this rating system from one star -good- to five stars -the best- .So there is no negative rating for me.Athough without rating if I write "excellent work " ,I mean it ,or else I wouldn't have made a coment.

before the gallery was revamped sometime in 2006, the ratings system didn't have numbers but used words instead...words ranging from "Excellent" (the top rating) to "Great" to "Needs Work" to "Poor." I don't remember all the possibilities...there were something like 8 different choices. So I think that those general "concepts" have carried over to this number system...5 is "excellent" and 1 is "poor"

having said that, I do agree with your premise...most people wouldn't bother leaving any sort of comment or rating unless they liked the image to begin with...

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