I remember when the owners were developing this site and they were considering just giving adivce a thumbs up/thumbs down, but it was mutually agreed that that could be too harsh and would possibly offend some members, which is why they chose to give 1-5 stars instead as it isnt quite as harsh.

Hope this helps :)

i personally wont give it a poor rateing , why cause just cause it dosent work for me it dosent mean that it cant for many others , i dont feel that for me i can do that ,, but thats just me , sometimes if it dosent work the first time it might later on down the track , and if the articles not anything i can see thats for me i dont bother at all .

as i feel that they have put in the time and effort to write it in the first place ...thats why i dont give it a poor rating and im not talking about articles that just shoudnt be on minti in the first place ,, thats up to admin