I do understand your point of view and to be perfectly honest I'm not AT ALL legitimate to say out loud that I agree 100% with you, as I thoroughly showed activity on these threads. I agree to the fact that there's way to much rate for rate threads and that other very cool threads are getting burried under this mess which is a shame. On the other hand, giving a look at the rate for rate threads also made me discover some great games from first jammers. Of course there's a lot of unfinished and unpolished ones, but man there's definitely a lot of GREAT IDEAS and I really mean it. I do try my best this JAM to be a community guy and share my games and thoughts for once, leaving a lot of feedbacks, so I did write my own thread to thank people, but in the end a lot of people ended up leaving comments like "rated your game, rate mine" kinda thing where all I wanted was really to encourage people talking and sharing their experience.
To me the best of both worlds would be to have a dedicated section to the rate of rate, moving it away from the community threads.