Architect Personalized Rating / Referral System

The biggest problem with the Architect Entertainment System's ratings system is that it assumes that our whole online community is homogeneous. My likes are your likes, so my 5-star rating is relevant to you.

Obviously, that ain't so. So why are we using community-wide ratings? I might care what my friends or people I respect think, but not joe_troller or anyone that subscribes to a playstyle I can't fathom.

Let me see the ratings that my circle of friends give. Have an option that shows a rating based ONLY on the people I deem relevant. (Let me choose to include my friends list, supergroup, coalition, or add-a-friend manually).

If someone's rating down great stories that aren't XP-centric, while I live for the story? Won't bother me. Most of my circle of friends share similar or at least related interests, so what they find and rate will be more likely to be appealing. ...And that person that's looking for XP centric stuff? Odds are good that he's not going to appreciate MY rating priorities anyway, but really value the ratings of the people he hangs with...