[Hiryuu]

What happened to downing IP ranges of idiots that did this? I thought that was a possibility past having to enforce a rule of 'two weeks to rate something'.

Heck, what you'd be SMARTER to do is make it to where someone must in fact post something of at least five words long before they are able to rate it period. At least that way things would be able to be considered contentful and would force those that would rather rate a 1 the inability to do so without at least giving some sort of a comment. 'This file really f***ing sucks' would work. Wouldn't be the most constructive comment in the world, but it sure beats having to deal with dumbass 1 ratings for no reason to those that would want actual feedback.

And, guess what, that would solve a LOT of problems in critique. It'd increase the flood to the people and to the staff for 'uncontentful comments and critique' and it would result in FAR less ratings period but you'd get exactly what you would want out of a content filter. Twenty-five character minimum should suffice.

As for ratings being reported to the staff, I cannot and will not agree with that. That is someone's own personal opinion and doesn't necessarily have to be construed as fact. If they have the reasoning to back it up (which this would more than fix) such a technique would not have to be added. If you suck and he proves it that not only makes you look like an idiot for the suggestion but it also shows the staff, at the same time, that you have a sim ready for deletion for being idiotic.

Course I'm not sure if sim moderators do that so often here anymore.