Fallen stars?

Has the rating system somehow collapsed? The last few times I've logged on and gone straight to a comment by clicking it in the 'recent comments' box, there is no longer any facility to give it a rating. (Which is a shame because several comments have been worthy.) Also, I don't find it easy to discover the thread these comments appear in...sometimes they make no sense unless you can quickly refer to what's gone on before. I have to use my back button, and try to find the entire thread the comment was posted in....and to be honest I don't go any further than that because I don't have the time. Am I right in remembering that only recently the threads WERE visible when you clicked on a message? So perhaps it's temporarily disappeared while the function is being updated? If not, I'd definitely vote for it to be reinstated. Cheers, Craig ~<8>-/=====\------