I think there is some confusion here about ratings, let me just explain them quick.
There are 3 different types of ratings for Movies:
- Critic Rating
- Audience Rating
- User Rating
The Critic and Audience ratings come from online metadata sources like IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Neither of these values should be editable from inside the web interface as they’re updated automatically when a metadata refresh occurs.
The problem was that the old Rating field in the edit dialog was changing the Critic Rating and then locking it which prevents it getting updated on refreshes. The change in the latest Web version changes that to edit the User Rating like it should have been from the start.
As for it being represented by stars and not a number is just historically how we’ve always handled User Ratings. It still is represented as a number value in the database (e.g. 5 stars would be 10.0).
