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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Meaningless and annoying feature. It should be turned off.

Yep, that's pretty much it. 99% of the 1 star threads are fine. The desire/need to rate something 1 star is super odd. I think I've rated 1 or 2 threads as 1 star over the years. They weren't so bad that the mods needed to delete them, but they were borderline.

Otherwise, if I am looking at a thread and I realize it's 1 star (it's not often that I notice the stars at all), then I'll often add a 5 to balance it out.