Dear SCN team
Currently, unlike other actions (like, bookmark, etc), star ratings on contents do not provide transparency on the user who made the rating. The only exception is if the user chose to leave a comment together when making the rating. As such, this system behaviour leaves room for abuse.
For example, in the space where I'm active in, there are frequent surges in points by a certain member on the leaderboard (I'm not sure how long this dates back, but it's been very frequent this month). If I were to look at the points history, it shows a surge of likes and 5 star ratings on the user's content happening very frequently. As the "like" actions are transparent, this can be traced to user profiles that are newly created in SCN with no other level of participation. However, since the star ratings are anonymous, there is no way to know who made them.
As SCN moderators might be busy and not always able to spot these behaviour, IMHO having transparency on this rating system will allow other members to spot these suspicious trends and raise them to moderators for further action.
Regards
Eng Swee