Originally Posted by Village Genius While I like that idea as well my concern is that stuff that was not intended to be public would become so. I personally don't care if my comments went public but someone might.

We could leave existing comments as they are (buyer/seller/staff only), and add a note to the rating page which says (in big, bold letters) "All comments are visible to <members / public ?>" for new ratings.

Of course, the other option is to do as you originally requested and let the "subject" text box be longer (how long, 200 chars?). This would just mean changing the database column and any validation/template changes to suit.

Originally Posted by Village Genius What about from a technical standpoint? Is there a way in the iTrader panel to do either of these?

Not that I'm aware of. Both changes would mean extending the iTrader plugin, but that's no great hardship so long as someone remembers to maintain everything if we ever upgrade.