first, thank you for your comments above, much appreciated.
It irks me a bit if one is on a forum and can not, because of the way it is set up,have the chance to have a discourse or an exchange of ideas between posters. If someone does not post and just rates,then I feel there is no fair exchange of discourse which a forum should be about. And there should be the tools so a user can have the option to use them in order to block those who want to impede or set up obstacles that get in the way of fair discourse and the sharing of ideas and opinions, which again I feel(for better or worse) is what Solo is about. Unfortunately the new rating system works against the dictum here of free speech for all because if one does not post or care to say why they rated your post then that impedes discourse and dialogue between users and it creates a place where one can not post there opinion without it being knocked down without a reason why.
I feel one should have the option to ignore a user and in turn that user can not see your posts. And if that can't be implemented,then I feel the rating system should be done away with or replaced with something
where the user who is rating has to give a reason why they rated the way they did, this is for negative and positive ratings. Though I do know this last option would open up a whole new can of worms, it would still be something closer to fair.
kS,