Regarding the rating system, I suggest that we let all members decide the score of the product using the thread rating feature. "Rate Thread" is disabled in quite a few forums, but when available, it shows up next to "Search This Thread" below the PM notification box. Because no-one really uses it, I think we could rename the feature to "Rate This Game/Movie/Book (and possibly album?)" and only allow it to be used in the review forums. We can probably ensure that the rating feature will show up outside one of the menus, too.

As for templates, I think this is a good example of a review: http://zelaron.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35998

However, only the first 700 characters of a review will show up on the portal; reading the rest of it requires you to click a "Read More" link. Therefore, the bolded Title, Developer, Platform and Genre information in the beginning of the reviews should not be used. Besides, there's a prefix system in place that will let you choose the platform, and the title of the product will be the topic of the thread. The information about developer/genre can probably be baked into the review itself.

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