On the contrary, I don't understand diary ratings.

Here one has a diary, in a diary it's licit to write things of no public interest, so I do not understand on what basis are users going to rate each other entries. I see recentlog as a convenient interface to read recent diary entries, but I have never forgotten that I am reading diaries, so I didn't judge mirwin entries, for instance. He could write whatever he wanted and I had no right to judge him, I had the right to ignore his entries, but rate them? I don't think so.

Being an active certifier, who tries to be as accurate as he can in his understanding and application of the level descriptions (not definitions), googleing, or even privately emailing people to get some more information, I think I won't use that rating system.

As soon as I can I'll sync MyAdvogato to display those numbers.