The reason you can only set a rating/comment (via My Requests) on something you have requested is because the rating information is stored as part of the request (WD_PackageRequests). You'll find the following columns related to ratings:
- IsRated
- Rating
- RatingComment
Please note that when you set a rating via the My Requests UI, it not only updates these columns for that request, it also calculates a summarized average rating score across all ratings for that catalog item and stores the average rating score in WD_WebPackages in the PackageRating column.
There could be other aspects/elements as well, but those are the ones I'm aware of.
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