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Can a user review a course without leaving a rating?
The rating and review serve different purposes. There's value in a review that says "this was the wrong course for my skill level," though that's going to be an experience that's hard to rate/rank (in a way that is useful to others). People seem really concerned about the numerical rating (and preserving the rating's validity). The ranking captures something very different than the description of one's experience. And it's not like we don't experience courses subjectively and in different scenarios (ex., wind v no wind), so it's folly to imagine we are all working from and responding to the same rubric.
Can't agree with your reasoning, but it would be nice to be able to review a course without rating it for other reasons. I know that I am going to be biased, for good or ill, about local courses, but I know them better than most. I would love to be able to write a review without having to rate it. Even a designer's review would be nice to read knowing that most people who put that much work into the course won't be able to assign a rating without some pride going into the number of discs assigned.