Forum Suggestion: Remove Ratings (Star Ratings) from Forum Threads

[dakillakm Resident]

Agreed 100% Someone else had a thread about this at some point recently and the same issues were mentioned. Taking the rating system away and using STICKIES to mark threads that are agreed to be important or particularly informative would be the best way to go in my opinion.

To counter the Rating Troll, I am one of the rating fairies who just rates something 5 stars if I feel like someone has rated it a 1 star for no reason. Especially threads in areas such as the "Showroom." What possible reason could there be for rating this a one star? If you don't like the cats someone has, don't look? Definitely creates feelings of resentment that could go make someone feel isolated from the whole community when only one meanie gave a low rating.