These are all good points and are at the heart of why I didn't suggest this when I first came up with it last year.

I see two problems:
1. I certainly understand that as an author you don't want to telegraph your ending. Any system such as this provides a certain level of foreknowledge that may be undesirable.
2. How do you rate the reaction of a person to a particular story? As Pam said above:
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*no* system is going to cover every eventuality, and that all judgments are subjective
Anyway, I was certainly not trying to tell anyone that they have to rate their stories.

Bob