Will you help me solve the mystery of my falling star rating?

Oh my goodness. What a horrible thing to befall you! It seems that weird things have been happening recently. I have replied to discussions of exactly the same nature as yours more than a few times recently. You are right in that your reputation is determined only by the pluses and minuses you received from members. At least, this is what was confirmed by a myLot reply received from a member here (if he/she can be believed). Your responses have always been quality ones so I have no idea why. And to drop from 97 to 91 overnight seems rather drastic. My only guess is that you offended someone unknowingly and that someone went to mark you down intentionally. It is much easier to go "down" than up. I can give you 100 pluses and your reputation will not even move. But if I give you 10 minuses, it might just fall like a boulder down a slope. I am sorry to know that your reputation has dropped and that you are feeling upset. :/

Good Morning Ladyluna, I'm very perplexed that your star fell so drastically overnight. The reason being is that I saw several of your responses in other threads the past 2 days and plussed all of them. Even your discussion on the bees and all comments. I would have thought that you would have gone up in rating and not down. I can tell you from reading other discussions on this subject and responses from administration that it's entirely the mylot members who are in total control of our stars. Although my star only fell by 1 point a couple of months ago, I was still very hurt by it. It seems that it doesn't take as many negative marks to drop as it does for positives to rise. Why? I can't say. When I have tried to help someone get their star back up it takes much more work. Here is my take on how the stars work and this is only my opinion so please don't take it as fact. If a discussion is started and then responses start coming in and another member who doesn't agree with the discussion and the responses and starts marking negative to all. Well that's only 1 negative for each. However if 6 members come in and rate negative to all their are now 6 negatives. When a discussion isn't controversial the discussion gets a plus, but many responses don't. Why? A lot of people just don't seem to take the time to rate other responses. Especially those that answer through their email. They hit the button that's marked reply to discussion and never even see the other responses. So in most cases the responses only get plussed by the thread starter. If the discussion was reported and removed, it could have been reported by multiple members working together and all of them marking negatives prior to the discussion getting deleted. Of course this is just a thought. I still don't know why someone would mark you a negative, as I have never seen you be rude to anyone. Even when giving your opinion on a controversial topic you do so with knowledge and grace. It seems to work better that instead of someone plussing all discussions started by a certain member, to go to their responses and plus those. Which is exactly what I will do, as lordwarwizard did. We will get you back a 10 as you deserve. Hope that you don't let it get to you to much. I do understand and I'm pretty protective of my 10 reputation. I do get into a few discussions where I jeopardize my rating, but am usually fairly picky on those. Usually someone has started a discussion on a topic that I have strong feelings about and I just feel like voicing my opinion. Maybe mylot could add a feature that sends us an alert about being marked a negative. Doesn't have to who did it for me, just what discussion so that I would know if it was one that I started or one that I responded to. Or my other feature that I would like to see added is the one when members mark the negative they must give a report like they do when reporting abuse. This would stop those negatives from the people who mark you with minuses just because they don't agree with you, if they had to give explanation. Again I'm sorry to hear that you star fell, rest assured we will get it back up in no time. :)

yes ive notised that to i did have a 10 rateing and all of a sudden its gone done to 9 how rude .i think it might be because i got really busy and didnt come in here for a while maybe well thats the only thing i can come up with

Hi, Well at first when I joined mylot I used to take a lot of interest in my star rating and I did reach a 10 star rating but since I have fallen to a 9 rating which is not that bad it is extremely difficult to obtain a 10 star rating again, so now I do my best and do not worry about the star rating as it can be very emotional stress if we worry about it. Although I do think that yo should be doing more responses so that you can build up your star rating.

Oh my ladyluna, I normally encountered friends complaining about their star rating too. But not like yours. I mean you have a huge dropped of 97 to 91. I was kind of "inactive" for the past few days and when I logged in a while ago, I discovered a lot of users who are flabbergasted with what's going on around mylot. Just the other day, I helped a friend to bring back her precious blue star. I went through all her threads and gave her many pluses. When I checked on her rating again, instead of gaining a few points, it has dropped one point again. I always seek your responses in some of my threads. You never failed to provide me with a well-thought and meaningful posts. Unfortunately, we can't please everyone here. I have learned long ago to detach my emotions from mylot. I'm over with that stage already. Cheer up luna! I will go through all your threads and gave you hundred of pluses right now.

hi ladyluna i am new in this site ....but after reading ur discussion i feel that there can be two reasons for ur falling star rate.... the first one being that ur giving it too much importance....and so i have personally felt that if you give too much importance to something....u overdo it...or get too stressed and hence...the quality of your work goes down. secondly, if u feel that this is not the case, then maybe people are jealous of your star rating....and hence they want to pull you down!...u cant do anything to stop them....so just relax. ultimately they r sure to get tired....and by the way i have given a positive rating to your discussion lol!!:D

Although i agree the minus ratings fairy can and does pay us all a visit once in a while, it may well be that your inactivity on the site contrebutes to it too. If you miss a couple of days your average plus rating may well fall. Consequently you can lose points simply because you are not here hope this helps blessed be

Well, i wonder the same just a hour ago. I still had my blue star at the morning and now it`s down:-( I am as active as usually. I am as quite and polite as usually. And for me it`s a mistery too. Is there a mistake in the programme calculations? Or may be somebody is eager to rate negative to me non-stop? Well.Never mind.I will try not to be upset too much.

The only thing I can figure is that maybe the rating dropped from inactivity. I have been rating people positively and their rating don't seem to go higher. So, even with a few negative ratings I don't see how you could fall 6 points. Mylot should give us some guide as to how ratings are compiled and what affects them. There are a lot of things on this site that don't make sense. Losing posts and losing money for starters.

Hello ladyluna, i am curious about how do you know about your star ratings? The only ratings I saw is the star icon appears on the upper left hand side of your username however I don't see the ratings as you have said 97 dropped to 91. I hope you will enlighten me on how to know the ratings. -titaniumsoul

Like you, I was also "attached" the star rating cos I prefer blue to red. When my star changed from red to blue and back to red, I was challenged. I finally managed to get it back to blue. But when it changed color again, I recall what I had done, the discussions I had responded. From then on, I avoided certain discussion topics and consistently respond to all my friends' discussions directly to the point, sharing my opinions in a few lines or more. Of course, I plus all discussions and responses I read, regardless whether I respond to the discussion. I do not know what is happening, but I just try my best. I try to maintain if not improve the reputation :P

Just keep doing what you're doing and don't worry about reputation or star rateing. A lot of mylot's stuff is kept in the dark as to it's real workings so I wouldn't be too alarmed. I'm honestly shocked my rateing is as high as it with how often I speak out on controversial topics, and with the unpopular views that I often take. I don't see any reason why your rateing should have dropped because you always make great posts and very nice and diplomatic to everyone invloved. Who knows though, what will set a person off? Just ignore and keep putting out the quality post and discussions as you always do and I'm sure it will rebound in no time.

I think it's easy to lose sight of things if you are concentrated too heavily in "stars" "best responses" or etc. The point of myLot is to express your views and not to make everyone happy. Sure you don't want to abuse your privilages, however we are all different and there are always people that you will offend no matter what you say. Be who you are, then your friends will come. Try to please everyone, you'll end up pleasing no one. -Swapw

Hello lovely lady , I just arrive in this website, and I try to understand the way it works, but I am reading day after day different opinions about it .. I still don't know few things in here, like stars or popularity... as nothing was clear when I started 2 days ago, but \it seems to be a nice international international community behind all of that... tell me it is ... Thanks Leo