cblaisd, with all respect, my personal opinion is that you are wrong. As the name of the feature already indicates, it is the thread rating feature, not the "I like you" or "I don't like you" feature. I am curious to know why you seem to want to defend that sort of use of the feature.

And even if, as you say, the use of the feature to say "I like (dislike) this poster" was a "legitimate" use, what good does it do for Flyertalk to allow the use of the feature to do that? How does it make Flyertalk better if a group of people uses the feature to say "I don't like this poster"?