I for my part say yes! It is and it is completely without merit.
I personally started a while ago disabling ratings entirely.

Why this harsh judgement?

Well - easy ! Show my an image with say at least 5 ratings, that has an average of 1 stars, two stars. You will even be hard pressed to find one with an average of three.

So what does that fact tell me? That the ratings made are mostly 4 and 5 stars and lower values are rarely used. Now despite having tons of outstanding images in our Gallery - there are a lot of images - and I don't exclude mine either, that would deserve just one or two stars.

But it doesn't happen, because ratings are obviously given as courtesy and not really as what they were intended to.
Besides the range being too narrow (1-10 would be more like it), but what good are ratings, if they are not used for their purpose.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on that - and suggestions on how to improve upon it.

Cheers
kjpweb

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