1. Speed games should either be exempt from ratings, or else there should be a separate rating number for them. Speed games both attract hotheads and cause otherwise conscientious players to accidentally deadbeat.
2. Even better, since the whole rating system is rifewith both with flagrant corruption as well as widespread misinterpretation, it would be great if people were required to opt-in to the rating system. The committed raters could then both rate and be rated by each other while the rest of us wouldn't have to deal with that biased and misconstrued system.
3. Finally let me add, that the Rating Achievement Medal should be completely revoked and removed from all players' walls and accounts. Rating others is not a medal-worthy activity.