User blog comment:StabbyStab/Pasta Quality/@comment-1290332-20110619180137

Here's why a ratings system would be a very bad idea: every troll and griefer in the Western hemisphere would instantly start downrating EVERY story they could find, just for the lulz, and there'd be an explosion of sockpuppet accounts created exculsively for votebotting. Hell, ratings abuse is the reason YouTube swicthed from a star system to a like/dislike one.