I have turned off ratings side wide by simply changing the database values to zero as directed. I began receiving an error after doing this. I have the members block on the homepage that contains the "top" tab. Modzzz has pointed out to me that this error is the result of this tab producing results based on ratings when ratings have been turned off so delivering the results is causing a database error. More details and the fix Modzzz offered me in this thread appears to be working so far without error.
https://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/Database-error-help-2015-11-18.htm