If the person has posted in the thread they can.

Just re-read and checked only modification/addons related topics are restricted from being rated if not installed (found this proper too).
Modification should be installed for rating makes more sense comparatively.

I was surprised cause could not locate ;) the same horizontal rating system on topics in rest of forums.. Which is set to default layout..

Um :confused:

Hi Paul edited the above post:
Just re-read and checked only modification/addons related topics are restricted from being rated if not installed (found this proper too).
Modification should be installed for rating makes more sense comparatively.

I was surprised cause could not locate ;) the same horizontal rating system on topics in rest of forums.. Which is set to default layout..

I will recommend, changing thread rating to horizontal format (like modification forums) for all forums :)