[TheSaxRunner05]

Originally Posted by xXOpkillerXx

The only thing making rates count does is make it faster to get avrank. I am pretty confident there's nothing to argue there.

I wouldn't say the only thing. I have a feeling a lot of people would use rates for scores to record without explicitly playing through every song in the game. The people that don't care about average rank at all would still play rates for enjoyment more often just seeing the score counted.