First off, great thread. All of the reviewers are offering great and important suggestions to making reviews easier and more fun to write and discuss.

Here's my thoughts on some of these ideas:

Sorting: Yes. There are some great reviews that desperately need to be seen and read, so being able to sort reviews based on score and reviewer status would be fantastic. I'd hate to let great but up-and-coming reviewers get buried beneath more prolific reviewers, but having multiple ways to sort reviews for each game would be beneficial not only to reviewers looking to help out the community with their advice, but also those looking for strong advice as to whether or not a game is good enough to be worth their time and money.

Score Refinement: As much as I didn't like the change from .1 to .5 differences in score at first, I find that narrowing the gap is important. However, there must be a balance. I feel that while a 1-5 scale is simple, it doesn't really tell whether a game is better than another particularly well. The 1-10 scale is better, but it still feels a bit narrow. I like the 1-10 (.5) level scale a lot as I feel that it nails that balance. It's easy to see if one game is better than another, but also makes it easier for the reviewer to assign a numeric value to a given game. In my opinion, keep the scoring as it is.

Video and Image Integration: Please, please do this. Visual and audio is important in this day and age, and giving the reviewer community some form of visual or audio integration into their reviews would expand the creativity bar considerably. Players could offer their own personal experiences in the game which would broaden the review community, allowing users to check out multiple viewpoints. I know that video reviews are already assignable in the user videos (I've made one myself, and have watched many others), but being able to assign video qualities to the reviews would be great. At the very least offer community reviewers the same reviewing privileges as the staff reviewers like heightened pros and cons, and emblems to signify importances in the game. I feel that community reviewers are at a disadvantage in this department, so this is probably my biggest suggestion to improving the review community.

Thumbs-up and Thumbs-down: The thumbs-down has become abused, so scrapping the thumbs-down button (and using a new sorting system) would allow good reviews to float to the top, regardless of those who simply don't like the game instead of those who don't like the REVIEW. This is a big point, as I've seen some fantastically written reviews get neglected just because their score or content was against the grain. A review that doesn't follow the general trend is bound to have some backlash, which brings down the reviewer morale and can even discourage them from writing more of their well-written reviews. Eliminating the thumbs-down button is a progressive idea, one that will keep morale up and give the better reviews the feedback that they need to prosper.

This is a great discussion that everyone has contributed to with flying colors. I give my thanks to everyone who's offered their ideas to this. As an avid reviewer, I treasure the review community, so I'm very happy that others care so much for the review community. Keep at it, everyone!