I assume the title is not exactly clear.

Basically, I find people who rate stories in the "For Review" section without writing even the most simple of explanations to be annoying, particularly when they drive-by one star reviews. I can understand it for obviously shit stories, but most of the stuff put up for review aren't total garbage.

Rather than suggest someone must post to rate, I was wondering how practical it would be to include a separate rating for people who posted in the thread. Something like displaying the normal rating and then below it a "reviewers rating".

I'm not sure how its handled sever-side, but I'd expect that cross-referencing people who rated and people who posted in the thread and tallying up their ratings should be relatively easy. I would think this would also work for stories already in the library.

 

I can't speak as to how easy this would be to implement, but it would work to avoid the problems inherent in either a 'you must post to vote' and the potential problems we have now, in that it's possible to review bomb the story. But sounds like a good idea!