Yeah, I agree. This will only cause spam.
If you are to have a type of 'ranking system' it should be for authors who have had their works reviewed and ranked.
So in your opinion, we should only have the rank images for authors, correct? Everyone agree?
Angus -- We plan on being around for a long time, you? We have to give you something to shoot for... if we made 5 stars for 5000 posts, then that would be it. There's lots of people already close to that.