Thanks Zuni...really awesome.
At RR, they would track IPs which would allow them to see when a staff at a particular store would make bogus reviews which would inflate the ratings...are you going to implement something similiar?
And a few suggestions:
1) I had to poke around for a while before I could add a new vendor - you could make that option more convienant by having "Add Vendor" on the search page itself so when people can't find a store, they can easily just add one.
2) With RR down, I'm imagining that AT RR would be the site of choice for most online buyers and some non-AT members who are not interested in AT Forums might be discouraged by having to register just to rate a vendor so they won't bother. Maybe you can still allow non-members to add their own comments under 'anonymous' or 'guest' or something. But at the same time, you can track their IP address to bar staffs from online stores from advertising and others from incessantly falsely rating their favorite vendors.