Is it possible to only be able to rate a photo if you leave a comment along with the rating? That might solve the problem of the anonymous raters giving 1's to everyone.

As for rating the photos, I dont look at what type of photo it is, for example (to use what lehsreh said) someone might post a really sci-fi type of photo. I personally don't like sci-fi in my joe world, especially the neon colored goo spitting monster type of sci-fi... Someone did some more realisitic shots of a sci fi scene a while back and I really was impressed... but in any case, even though I don't particularly like sci-fi Joe stuff, I still look at the photo, the lighting, the figures used, is it in focus, is it scaled correctly with the background, etc, etc., and that sci-fi photo might get a 4 or 5 from me even though I dont like the photo...

I also only rate photos I post comments on too.

--== Paragon ==--

EDIT: After I read this post I read the message about how it is not an easy thing to make it so you have to comment in order to rate an image, I just wanted to point out that I made my comment about that before I knew that info. :P