Rating system available over special string

Hi Kyle,
I have a developing problem and that is that I have the rating system on the business account profiles and everyone can rate on it (logged in and not logged in). They can also do it when they actually have nothing to do with that person (ie just for fun or to destroy that persons business). I am sending out feedback reminder requests over email after an event has happened.

In order to get around false ratings, I was thinking of disabling the rating when one goes onto the profile itself, HOWEVER allowing rating by guests only when you add a string to the URL of the profile (eg: ?rating=allowed). That way you would not get random people rating on it because they have nothing else to do in their life but only those who are either logged in or have the right URL...

I think that would be a really good addition.

Use CB Conditional and add a Custom > Value condition to show/hide it based off a value. It's a pretty strange condition, but the below just might work.

Display: Field conditional self
If...
Field: Custom > Value
Value...
Value: [cb:if user="#me" user_id>"0"]allowed[/cb:if][cb:if user="#me" user_id<="0"][get_rating][/cb:if]
Translate Value: No
Is...
Operator: Equal To
To...
Value: allowed
Translate Value: No
Then...
Mode: Show
For...
Registration: No
Profile Edit: No
Profile View: Yes
Userlists Search: No
Userlists View: No

In short if the user is logged in it's going to compare allowed = allowed, which will pass. If they're not logged in it's going to grab "rating" from GET (so the URL) and compare its value to allowed. This should do what you're wanting. Something like this will never be built into the ratings field though, sorry. It also completely hides the rating field instead of just disallowing rating permissions.