Gently disagree.

The only online site I use to listen to the Dead has a rating system. I use it as a guide and find it quite useful, given I'm usually looking for something particular.

I think the rating system should require a [blank] character blurb in which the rater explains why - even if it's just bc of the Jim->LSG - the show is worth exploring. Not only will this mitigate how the "how easy it is to click a star" problem, the system will have added meaning.

.02.

Also: People simply don't have to reference them.