I thought rating chit chat posts was disabled, so when I opened my User CP today and saw I was rated on a post in CC I was like whaaa... So I was then like, is this something new, are ratings turned on? I opened a thread in CC to see with my own two eyes and the third one that I can see in the dark with, and to my amazement they were not on. So I immediately thought it was an admin/mod that did it, commending me on my great work and that I will be getting a party thrown in my honor too. But, that too was false. I was rated by a regular user. So there was only one option left.... Correct! Magic! I've been practicing a few forms of magic for years, like Voodoo, Necromancy and Thaumaturgy so I was well ready to research that aspect. I used my aforementioned third eye to see the mystical powers that were behind this. After spending much time on it my eye got tired so I decide to explore other options while it rested.

Although the 'Rate this post' is not shown, I could still load the rating URL manually (right click on the link in another post and do open in new tab) which gives me an URL looking like this

http://www.vbforums.com/reputation.php?p=xxxxxxx

I could then manually type the post ID of any post into the URL and use it to rate.