All right, I heard enough. Caption connisseurs? You're rating something that isn't even technically a legal use of pictures. You're rating something people get their rocks off on. How can that possibly be good or bad as long as said rocks get off? That's all captions have ever been about, if not telling a small story. And you can't really decide on the quality of a story by the first three paragraphs or so unless you're at the bookstore and you're pondering whether to buy the book on impulse. So that's why captions are here: young people are hot and bothered, and they want a PEZ-sized story to go with it. And here we have people rating these things.
On that matter, linear ratings in general are a stupid thing. How can one thing be better than another? It's all about tastes. And if someone produces something not to your taste, you needn't harp on that person until they conform to your likes. That's conservatism to a fault. No one of importance will care what you think about one form of expression or another. Not unless they're your friends, you write witty things, or both. No one cares.
Why do people review stuff anyway? To save time. You read movie reviews so you don't waste a lot of time (in both going to the movie and the work put in to make the money to go). You read game reviews because games are freaking expensive. Why do people review online works of fiction? Because it saves about five to fifteen minutes of wasted time (miniscule).
Captions, at worst, are a waste of 6 seconds of a person's time --- tops. They need reviews like my housecat needs new stationary. In fact, the negative "reviews" waste more time than the caption themselves, and they serve no purpose except to erode the budding creative's self esteem. And I will personally nightstick anyone who intentionally (as in, premeditated passive-aggressive) sabotages creativity because they can't be bothered to be expressive themselves and don't like what someone else is putting out. As a rule, before I give out criticism, I make a note to look long and hard in the mirror despite whether I like the sight that greets me or not. I suggest a few of you do the same.
Oh yeah... and if you find something morally objectionable about someone's captions? Stop reading them. No one is holding a sledgehammer over your still-working SNES copy of Chrono Trigger and making you read them. The world does not revolve around you and no one should go out of their way because you're too whiny and righteous for your own good.
Thank you.