I'm becoming quite enamored of this new rating system, and I shall probly push it, oh, every time I see any other system, at least.

Hmm. While yours is a goodly one, I think something like a Google PageRank system is needed. Using a semantic database like WordNet (link), you can probably measure things like -nyms and numbers of definitions and how words link to one another. I will work on it in my copious free time and get back to you. (It will, of course, be open source.)

Ceci n'est pas un seing.