the negative voter strikes again. I wouldn't mind the one -5 vote on this tile if it didn't affect my tile's rating so drastically. What I consider to be my best tile yet, and used to have a rating that reflected this, now is my second to lowest rated tile. I have an idea for a solution to propose to the administrators: how about making the votes of the "regulars" more weighty when calculating tile ratings on the newbie quilts? This way, a single rude vote would not be as destructive. Another idea is to require a person to make one or more tiles before they are able to vote. Even better, limit how far negative a person can vote to the highest positive rating that they have recieved on a tile (i.e. Bob's highest tile is rated 3. Therefore, Bob can vote as low as -3 but not -4 or -5). The thinking here is that a person who is qualified to judge a tile as bad enough to deserve a -5 should be capable of producing a +5 tile themselves. Even better than this would be for administration to track the voting habits of newbies, question the judgement of extremely low votes on tiles that don't clearly deserve a negative rating, and take corrective action of some type (i.e. remove the negative vote and/or question and discipline, if necessary, the irrational voter). Well, I think that's enough rant for now. :) My apologies if I sound overly irritated, it's not intentional but might be partly explained by my nasty used car salesman experience today.