[ForumDog]

Don't you wonder how many people use Thread Rating to rate the thread instead of the modification? That was always my assumption about what it was for, given that:

a) It's labelled Thread Rating, bit of a hint there.
b) The rating system is available regardless of whether it's a modification thread or not.

There's nothing anywhere that implies you should use Thread Rating for Mod Ratings in the Mod Forums and Thread Ratings outside of it and even if it did it would be a confusing way of doing it. You could at least rename it to Modification Rating for the appropriate forums so people would adequately understand what it's for and would work fine. Or better yet do something proper for Mod ratings.

Logically I'm sure people do guess it should be used for Mod Ratings but that's a bit of an assumption to say the least.