Thanks Alexandra, we appreciate your feedback.
While there are several potential post-publication peer review strategies being explored across the industry, including various forms of categorised numerical ratings as you've described, many are often based on two key assumptions: that readers will return to a paper on the publisher's platform after they have first read or downloaded it, and that a diverse group of reviewers could distil their individual qualitative assessments of a paper into sufficiently uniform quantitative scores.
As more data is needed to validate these assumptions and inform any future strategies, we continue to welcome our readers' and contributor's views on these issues.
eLife Product Team