I liked the ratings idea.. but my users were going to mention it at the mere suggestion of it. We run a support site and there were whole arguments about how everyone is important and it's tough to get people to participate... now add the fear of being rated poorly. So I edited the templates to remove it.
I would agree with Scream. If infopop doesn't have a problem with it, the ability to download completed templates that make basic changes would be a plus. Surely anyone trying to fool with threads to begin with can handle uploading a different template file into their server. But completed templates would be easier than instructions to modify.
