Dear Fellow Photographers and others, we have the choice of allowing "ratings" on gallery submissions. What is your choice and why? Obviously a rating of "magnificient", a notch above excellent would disappoint many and some would get such a rating. So much is subjective and from perspectives of emotion, interest in genre, etc. Some is purely technical. Some ratings are meaningful(depending on the understood credentials of the rater) and others may be thrown out with the old newspaper. If you allow ratings or do not, please let us know the "why" of your decisions and overall feelings on "ratings" in your gallery submissions. This is not an issue with me..more curious than anything else. Peace and Blessings. TomDart.