Po, the visible/listed ratings beside your name...if public would deter honest opinion...if at odds with 'expectations', adding fuel to flame and dissatisfaction.  I doubt it would ultimately benefit as it would lead to more 'nice = 10' comments and/or just no 'rating applied if wanted to be low'....

Voting aka submitting a rating on a skin was/is and always has been an opportunity for an individual to cast an opinion of what a skin's 'quality' is.

1. Jafo thinks it is good...and votes 4 stars.

Voting has never been a free-for-all interpretation of how to alter a skin's overall average, be it by inflated opinion [exaggeration] or flooding through multiple accounts.

2.Jafo thinks it is good...but it only has a current average of 3...and votes 5 stars so the average will become maybe '4'.

3. Worse still...Jafo sees a '3'...thinks it should be '4' and creates 10 accounts and applies a '5' 10 times.

'1' is how and what voting/opinion is intended to mean.

As mentioned earlier...people are SUPPOSED to be doing it correctly.  Anything less is a disservice to yourself and your fellow Wincustomize.com Users and Skinners.... 

The intent has always been...vote as the work warrants...not as kickback/correction-attempt for a presumed 'on your part' wrong doing.

If someone suspects a 'wrong-doing' the ideal process is to contact an admin for 'review' rather than an individualistic attempt to sway averages.

I'm not assuming anyone's thinking FOR them. I see no profit from attempting such.

When Wincustomize.com instigated/adopted public voting as a practical way for the community to self-determine what may or may not appear through a search process based on user/community ratings it was certainly hoped that people would adopt a sensible approach to their new responsibility.

Life isn't that cut and dry, as there will always be people who want to work outside adopted system guidelines.

The question you must ask yourselves....do you wish to be pro-active for the community or assist in its regression through disparate stance/s?

I don't want anything 'both ways' with anyone.  Instead I go to great lengths to re-iterate what an individual's skin rating is supposed/intended to reflect.

With monotonous regularity ratings threads of one form or another surface, mostly with one misconception or another fuelling the debate.

At this stage, the intent is that community-based ratings will stay...to give a community-based filtering/search method...a plus FOR the community.

It's very unlikely to be public as contrary to the opinion of some it will stifle honest opinion, not enhance it.  People will either be too nervous about casting a 'low' vote and refrain or will cast low and be subjected to unwarranted 'payback' inciting animosity between members.

Because there can be a tiny minority who may attempt to push an agenda of some kind via these ratings they will remain to be accessible by admins.

Virtually NO adjustments are made.  If there appears to be an 'issue' its originator can be privately spoken to.  Sole reason is to protect the fairness of the system to all skinners alike.

I don't seem to be able to communicate the simple idea of a skin rating process to everyone, no matter how many times/ways it's verbalised.  To those...just keep doing what you perceive to be 'right'.

Wincustomize.com's Admin's prime focus will remain to be the fair-treatment of all Site members, old and new alike....