Rating without content. It is bad.

[baileyherbert]

I agree that we should be able to reply to reviews that don’t include messages. You can do this on other platforms, like Amazon and Google Maps, and it hasn’t caused any issues.

@pebas

Let me ask you @charlie4282 one rhetoric question. What you would like to see more when you choose an item to purchase:

1. Ten or twenty 5 star ratings without the explained reason why they are left for an item.
2. One 5 star rating with the minimum 255 chars explained why they think that 5 stars are deserved.

The answer is redundant. Because of that Envato will implement this solution, content is a must for a rating.

While I agree that a rating with a comment is far more meaningful, I (and many others, I’m sure) disagree that comments should be required. It’s already nearly impossible for most authors to achieve 3 ratings on an item, and we’ll risk increasing that problem further by making it more difficult to rate items.