[Abyzz]

The overall issue with rating on WCM - one that you've gone to a great extend trying to counter with the new comment-on-comment system (may I call it CCS?) - is that the community seems to favor people with similar opinions rather than those who try to contribute something to the discussion. If someone goes against the current by constructively evaluating a movie that everyone seem to like (and vise versa), that comment will receive negative feedback, while overall useless comments stating nothing but the four-lettered "nice" receive good feedback. This promotes a simple and unsophisticated sort of response, and can not possibly be the aim.

A way to combat this could be to extend the CCS with rankings based on feedback on submitted comments. Those who consistently provide useful comments should stand out and inspire people to take their inputs more seriously, and while this would emphasize constructive feedback in a clearly positive way it would also encourage the community to take voting more seriously. After all, who wouldn't want to stand out and get that sweet colored text?

CCS is a great initiative, but I think it can become even better. Destinct the good 'raters' from the bad and inspire the community to think more carefully when voting - thorough feedback should come before superficial ones. Constructiveness over criticism.