Why the No 10 Blue Star is so elusive?

I do understand how you feel. So far I have been consistent with the blue star but as for my ratings, it has been fluctuating. Or to describe it as it really is, going down. I once reached 100 points and I was so happy I made a post about it. As soon as it was posted, I went back 1 grade down. Ugh! As for the blue star I am not so sure about how it works, I think consistency in mylot helps.

I don't worry about my star rating. It goes up and down once in a while which means someone didn't like what I had to say. I don't think any less of a person because they have a 1 or a 10. I think they have the star rating system set up wrong. You can go into any post and rate anyone you want and to me that is not right. You should only be able to rate on your own discussions that you start and people that respond should only be able to rate the person that started the discussion. Something like that anyway...

Happened a couple of times but I tend not to look at the star for that reason

When I rate you + you will have a blue star, When others rate you - you will get back to red star, I never marked you -, because you never gave me the opportunity to mark -. Lols. I am not bothered about stars. Regards/Samson.

Hi, I do hope you'll cheer up. :) I've tried to share some tips on how to get/maintain the No 10 blue star rating on another discussion topic. I do hope it helps you. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1164523.aspx Yes, I've also encountered having the No. 10 blue star taken away and being replaced by other stars. I know it's awful. I'm sure that there are many others who have to go through this too. Meanwhile, I've also tried to give you some positive ratings here so that should help too! :)

No, it hasn't happened to me (I should probably say 'yet') but it did seem to take me forever to get it. I was a red 9 for ages. It was funny, but when I stopped even thinking about it I looked up one day and it was blue. Funny how that happens.

Your friends need to plus sign you more. It is something that does not affect your score and is meant to motivate however it is misused. You never really know if it is laziness on your friends parts or evil touching your responses and discussions. There are those the take glee in reducing some of us to lowly stars. Good luck in learning to ignore it and do what you do so well.

It's happened a few times to me now. Maybe someone or somebody didn't like a comment I made, who knows. I've just dropped again for about the fourth time in the last six weeks. Ohhh well, never mind.

That is strange. I haven't lost my blue star since I first got it - now watch I'll lose it tomorrow. I was very disappointed as silly as it seems but at one time I had a 99/100 rating then it dropped to 98 and I can't for the life of me get it back up to 99... I'm just thankful for my blue star now as it is one of the prettier colors in my book.

i dont even try to understand my lots reasons for dxoing thinks anymore it is beyond me for instance why remove a simple joke that is amusing and offends no one?theyve done this before !and as for the rating system it would be easier to learn chineese that try to understand that !

It happened to me actually. I have never reached yet the coveted number 10 but I reached the number 9 but I lose it later. I could not understand why is this so. However, I just don't mind the stars, the most important thing is to contribute more and more discussions and replies because that's where I think the earnings is based, right? Maybe the stars are just there to make the site cuter and a little more exciting!

when i first had a star it was an 8, a few days later it went to 9, a few more days and it became a 10. fortunately for me, i got stuck with it. but i was always on my toes at 95/100 coz it's the brink of being a 9 and a 10. whenever i respond to a new user, i tend to promote the use of the ratings. i think it is a must for every user to use this feature because it helps other mylot users to be responsible in the posts. indirectly, it might help in improving the earnings too. i only do a few posts each time i log in at mylot. and the discussions i respond to are very selected. coz i'd rather do 1 quality post than do 5 so-so posts which would earn me the same thing. i want to share 1 tip. when you are an 8-10 star mylot user, that means a lot of other users find your post of quality. be selective. select only quality discussions (by new or old users)to respond to, of which you share the same interests. request friends that start quality discussions or those who give quality responses. those who have reached 8-10 stars are more often the ones who religiously rate other users too. i, for one, only give positive ratings to almost all of the responses i receive, provided that their responses are at least related to the topic i started. if the response is totally out of this world, i simply leave the ratings blank. i don't want to put a negative mark, ever. i have made 2 abuse ratings on 2 other users because they copied the response of another mylot user in my discussion, that was so rude and disrespectful. don't be disheartened with the fluctuating mylot star rating. it does not necessarily mean that other users give you a negative rating. more often, some users do not rate discussions and responses at all. some don't even provide comments in their own discussions... making the discussion a Q & A. my theory is: our ratings reflect a percentage of positive ratings over the total posts... only if we receive the positive ratings. unmarked, doesn't count. so most probably, most of your responders do not rate your discussion or most of the users, who started the discussions you responded to, do not make a habit of giving ratings. still, 94/100 is still a pretty good rating. :) continue to enjoy and goodluck! :)

Let me say first that I never had a blue star. I started with a white star and now it is red. To me the solution to the problem that you mention is very obvious. The star rating is a percentage of the positive votes. You have relativly few posts. If - let`s say you get two negative votes with your 8oo posts, then a person who has 8000 posts it would take twenty negative votes to get them to a red star. The star rating is in the relation of positive votes to the amount of posts. So if you would post a lot more it would not matter so much if you got a negative rating. The star rating fluctuates most for beginners and this is why there is not star before one hundred posts.

Well when I reached my 100th post my rating was a 3. The next day i climbed to 4. The day after that I climbed to 5. The following day after that I reached a whooping 7. And finally after that day, I got to 9. Since then I have remained on 9 and have not moved one bit. I guess you know what they say, when you reach the top, there is no where else to go but down. So may be it is better not to go up to 10 after all.

Been pestered with this doubt for a long time.Some atrocious discussion makers are bestowed 10.But invariably all their discussions are lengthy.If this is the lonly criteria I am not for it.I am happy with my position and friends here.But I strongly feel that the quality discussions must be encouraged by my lot every now and then.

yes, it happens to me once when mylot experience a technical glitch... but after that, i never lose my 10 blue star again... i am sorry that it happens to you... i don't really know the reason why... may be you can contact the admin and ask them to explain it to you... good luck...

when they first started the star rating they gave me a ten and then took it away right away, even though my responses never changed, i've never had it back since, i stay at 9 all the time. but i know wut u mean when i had it taken away i started trying to make my discussions better and they just never gave me back my 10 blue star.

I think it has a lot to do with the ratings. If someone rated + it is a good thing. If someone liked what you said in ohter discussion they would rated you.

I have had a blue star more or less since I got a star and while it is nice it isn't the be all and end all zandi! I am not sure why some of manage to keep a blue star and others don't but I sincerely believe that it doesn't mean you are any better or worse cos you have a 10 star or a 5 star! Don't let it get you down zandi - in the grand scheme of things it is not important - just enjoy the community! xxx

i have my blue star for more than two months now and i just feel normal. i could say that i am happy about it but i am much happier with my friends around here.i am enjoying with their discussions and i feel i am blessed and thankful to see them around responding and exchanging thoughts with you. i am not alone somehow. personally,it doesn't matter to me whatever be the color of my star as long as i earn a little and have friends around to hang out. btw,i never rated (-) to anyone here so far and i do not intend to use it anyways.