My two cents:

1. Mitigate reactionary ratings: add a cooling off period before show ratings open. Say, a week. Maybe even a month.

2. Institute "one person one rating": include only *verified* user accounts in the average ratings tabulations to limit the number of users with multiple .net accounts rating the same show multiple times.

3. Increase transparency and accountability: make all user ratings public. Any user should be able to see the ratings for any other user. Kinda like free speech... sure, you can say (almost) anything you want. But just because you can say almost anything doesn't insulate you from from any consequences from what you say.

Thanks .net team for hitting the pause button on the ratings and working to enhance their usability to guide fans to good shows!