What I thought would be an easy decision actually took me a while to think through. At the end of the day I voted to remove the rating system for two main reasons. Firstly, it apparently can't be embedded into the reply system (if it could have been, I would have voted to retain it), and secondly (and more importantly) as I stated in the relevant thread, I would hate for a new member to become discouraged an quit posting because his photos received unexplained low ratings.
It's disappointing that we had to even make this decision because of some malcontent who lacks the courage (or intelligence) to put his name (and reasoning) to a low rating.

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