It seem sto me that a star-rating is unneccesary, mostly because I can always go to a monk's home node and check out ALL of his/her past posts-- which gives me a superb idea of how many grains of salt I should take with his or her advice. I admit that the star system would be faster (an at-a-glance aid, I guess) but i really prefer the depth of actually browsing their past posts (and secretly fear that I'd get lazy if the starts were offered. Ah mi.)

The Autonomic Pilot