Make impossible to rate uncompleted dramas

I think you should still be able to rate dramas while they are airing. But making a review? No. 

 CherryBunny:

I really, really think the whole trend lately of trying to force people to manage their lists and experiences like others needs to stop. It's seriously becoming an issue with all these forceful suggestions and telling people they are wrong to not rate/review/manage things like you want them to.

I agree with you.

It's enough that people have different systems of rating. For example some people seldom give a rating lower than 5 or 6 while others utilize the extremes of the scale. Ratings for the most part will stay subjective just like people's taste of drama. I personally use ratings not to project to others my opinion of a drama cause I think so highly of myself and that my opinion holds so much value(because let's be real: I'd be a terrible critic), but to manage my watched list better (it gives a quick visual of what dramas I enjoyed and didn't without having to remember & recall). So you bet your ass I influence the ratings in that annoying subjective way. A lot of people rate based on personal enjoyment (I've seen it be admitted on few of people's profiles). So at the end of the day the ratings will never be a true critical objective representation of a drama. That's why rotten tomatoes divides their ratings & reviews between the critics & the regular viewers. I am sorry honey, but this is not the academy or the Oscars; Not everyone wants to act a critic. So restricting people to meet your standard is not only useless but is reaching.  
Looking up comments and reviews before picking up a drama is far more useful and helpful than a single digit. They can point out plotholes or warn of bad endings and etc. So no matter how hard you'll try to restrict & control, the rating feature on a drama page will never be truly useful tool to help gage a drama.
That being said, I support not allowing people to hype a drama before it even airs. But with dropped dramas? Well I'd say there are exceptions like episodic dramas that have a standard pattern, where seeing a couple episodes is enough to gage whether you dislike it or not. Other reasons could be that it depicts sensitive subjects (like violence & abuse against women or rape) in a wrong way (like it glides over/makes it seem acceptable or unimportant, etc.), and you might drop the drama & rate it poorly to convey that you don't condone (a promotion of) such behavior (but only if you read the warning comments & know for a fact that negative behavior by a character never got reprimanded (most common with Thai dramas & their love for what they call slap&kiss genre). or if the drama is just too cringy (a combination of bad script, poor production, and/or cringy acting) - usually more  common with short web dramas. I would discourage rating a dropped/unfinished dramas for your regular typical dramas but I wouldn't restrict it to all dramas cause that treats dramas like they're all the same. As for airing dramas? My 2cents is that it makes no difference if you decide to drop a drama while it's airing & leave a low rating or if you do it after it finishes airing. I guess the only difference is that you can spoil the ending (to see if it gets any better), but then again not all do. Some just drop, rate, and move on. I'd say maybe make a little a caution on drama pages or when you click to rate, with a little message asking to discourage such behavior so that people can be at least more aware of the issue since not everyone visits the forums . You can also separate the ratings whether it'd be:
a separate personal rating on your list - your personal rating of the drama - and one on the drama page - your more objective rating that you want to project to the world. (ik it sounds a bit silly)Then I'd just substitute with a simpler " I -- this drama" rating system on the lists page to help sort your dramas. And the ratings would be like: I enjoyed this drama/ Did not enjoy this drama/ I liked this drama so-so -- or something like that with a simple system.
Or like mentioned above separate the dropped ratings in statistic.

What do you call "a regular typical drama"? How would you choose them? Maybe it's the language barrier as someone said earlier but I don't get your point. If I understood you correctly, that would be unfair for some dramas.

I find the ratings on MDL quite accurate, unlike other websites, including professional websites.  And there is a reason for that. On a professional website, you'll have less opinions, less points of views. Hence, what you'll get is something only a few people who are always together agree on. On a community as huge as MDL, it's impossible to have a common scale without people disagreeing. And that's GREAT. This way, we can see many objections to good and bad ratings alike. A few movies in history had really bad critics before it aired, but when they got released, the public praised them a lot.

Also, if as Plushie said, only 4% of viewers completed a drama, doesn't this mean that this drama was so bad that 96% of them dropped it? Then, why shouldn't the bad ratings show in the overall rating? And again, I mean EQUALLY show in the overal rating. It simply reflects the truth: many people didn't like it.

Poia, again you are telling people to do it *your* way. That is what it comes down to. There are rules on MDL. They are there to keep us all safe and comfortable. We do not need rules for controlling our thoughts or opinions, however. I don't understand why you are so passive agressive about it though. No one is trying to force you to rate anything you don't want to rate.  

I agree with CherryBunny on this. That is your way of thinking, not everyone's. I hated The Heirs, I dropped it and I rated it. Badly at that. Why? Because if all those who didn't like it and choose to dropped it hadn't rated it, this drama would have a score higher than it already is, which wouldn't reflect the overall thinking of viewers. Moreover, as someone stated earlier, I also rate the drama to know which one I like better, completed or not. If I can't do that here, it's pretty bothersome to keep track of them.
If you use this website regularly, you'll see airing dramas ratings change greatly between the airing period and after that. The hype isn't there anymore so the ratings adjuste by themselves. From what I remember, it was the case with The Heirs. So, with just a little patience, the problem stop being a problem.

My point is this is how I read ratings : at one point in time, people here on MDL love this drama more or less giving the current rating. If it's currently airing, I know I should take into consideration the hype. If not, then I actually find it pretty trustworthy.

By the way, Poia, I do vote in an objective and serious way, using common sense. And I'm pretty sure everyone here does the same in their own way. We don't have the same criterias, that's all.

And I'll stop argumenting after that because I'll start repeating myself.

https://mydramalist.com/profile/TejuosoAyomide/reviews/37621

This needs to be stopped. What's the point of Episode Reviews?

@Ceki

I agree but was told that MDL now lets people review currently airing dramas. I had been reporting them up until Hessa told me of the rule change. 

 Skye-N-Rain:

Out of curiosity, why don't you use them? Is there anything that would prompt you [and others] to use them more?

For the few times I felt the need to talk about a specific episode, it's usually closer to sections already in place, like the "comments" section (to ... comment on a specific scene) or the forum (specifically asking about something I didn't understand). But since I'm (usually) not a "currently-airing" drama viewer type-of-guy, leaving a review for something I've not completed would (probably) leave an aftertaste in my mind. I can totally understand the need to talk about a specific scene/episode but writing a review about every episodes ? ... as far as I'm concerned, too much work ^^.
Note that it doesn't make it a good reason to dismiss Episode Review, it's just not really that useful *to me*.