Those who don't want ratings to change their Flayrah experience can turn the moderation off in their user settings, as you have done. Letting you disable rating of your comments would defeat the purpose of the system: encouraging civil discourse by ensuring that people think about how their comments will be received before posting, and allowing the community to enforce their collective opinion of civility.
You can say what you like in your journal. The comments section is a shared space, and operates under different rules.
Those who don't want ratings to change their Flayrah experience can turn the moderation off in their user settings, as you have done. Letting you disable rating of your comments would defeat the purpose of the system: encouraging civil discourse by ensuring that people think about how their comments will be received before posting, and allowing the community to enforce their collective opinion of civility.
You can say what you like in your journal. The comments section is a shared space, and operates under different rules.