well some people live for those numbers, unfortunatly with averages if you have only a small amount of scores to average one low one knocks stuff way down. Perhaps Rabbit could consider two things that shouldn't ( i think ) create any extra work once set up.

One is when a member submits they choose the types of reviews or no reviews they want and if they want the score bars. It might be as simple as setting up a member control panel for preferences such as deviant art or just letting rabbit know and he sets the permissions.

I think that the reviews are slightly unreliable anyway, I think there is some members that manipulate the scores but if they are its thier own thing and its not hurting anyone. I just hate to see people take negative commentary to heart. I also would like to challenge the members who are unhappy about reviews to thier submissions to review storys when they are on.

If there is a review that is not postive in terms of the story it sometimes is nice to have the member be specific, eg not enough character development instead of you suck. However a vindictive reviewer may not really know how to write a good critical review or they are just not planning to be nice as its not said to the other persons face. I guess sometimes people forget that real people with feelings are reading the reviews of thier work.