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Originally Posted by lehsreh

i understand what you are saying, and i did not mean that i would give a sigma 6 a 1 star rating, just that if it were sitting beside a pic of a 3 3/4 pic of the same quality and i had to give one a 5 star it would be the latter. and as you said that you would not want to be part of a community where people are "petty", i think the same can be said for this place if everyone gave everybody a 5 star rating just because they do not want to hurt ones feelings. as i said before, my pic didnt get 5 stars, nor did i expect it to, its just not that good. if this site is a place where no one can give what they truely think for a rating and we cant take a lil bad criticism then i do not think i would want to be here. we are not kids, not everyone is gonna think the same about every pic, dio or whatever. lets all be grown up and let people do and say what they truely believe in, isnt freedom of expression an american right?

I don't think any one has a problem with a picture being rated a 1 or 2 if is not very good. The problem arises when good pictures are rated poorly, seemingly out of spite. Constuctive criticism is always welcomed; after all, if you are doing something wrong, you want to be told so that you can fix it. What angers most people is a poor rating without an explanation. If someone doesn't like a pic, that's fine. Out of common courtesy, just let the contributor know why you don't like it. And you are absolutely right when you say that there is no point giving every picture a 5 just so no one's feelings are hurt, as that defeats the purpose of a rating system just as fully as giving everything a 1. All we need for the rating system to work as intended is for everyone to use it honestly!