@cvrad - I understand what your saying but I also agree with AnnieD; you can't change human nature.

There is another negative side of the rating system where budding artist may become discouraged and dispondant at low scores and give up too early in their efforts. High scores, even if they're meaninless, is an encouragement.

I like coming the Rendo galleries because I see them as a brainstorming of artistic ideas. None are bad and all have potetial to be great. So under my criteria everyone who has made the effort (and put up with those really long render times. LOL) gets a 5.

I may however leave some suggestions in the comments area. But there I am more cautious because the words that we type never true express what we mean. We humans communicate with more than words. So communicating with just words alone is fraught with danger. What one may meant as just a jokingly friendly remark becomes something else without that face-to-face communication.

Anyhoot most of us know where our own art truely stand when we look at the work/effort of others (that is, if we have the courage to be honest with ourselves).

And if one truely feels the need to have one's work judged (and has the courage to allow it so), then there is always the competitions that Rendo hosts now and again.

You may note I used the word "courage", but the word "humility" is just as equal in this case. It depends on if your a person who see his beer glass as half full or half empty ;-)