Do you give everyone in a discussion a positive rating.

I give a positive rating to people who have obviously seem to have read the original post or the comment they are responding to. In otherwords, if they are contributing to a discussion. If people disagree with the poster, I give them positive ratings for contributing as long as they are not personally flaming/attacking someone. I rate people a negative if they are flaming someone else (lively discussions are not flaming), are clearly just popping in to post one line to entice you to visit their ring tone site, or are otherwise going against the TOS of mylot.

If I start a discussion which I haven't started in over a month, I usually just respond to discussions lately. But if I start a discussion I give the person a positive rating as I am replying to their response. This helps me keep track of which one's that I have read and which one's I have not. As far as knowing what others rate our discussions, as far as I know there isn't a way to tell.

I sometimes do that as well. Go down the list and rate everyone that is contributing with good answers a plus. But I confess I don't do that all the time. It takes a lot of time which I don't always have. I always rate the person that starts a discussion that I answer and often at least the people in the same page.

No I don't always give a rateing. I do give pos rateings if someone post something I concider well thought out. I do not give negitive rateings though.

I positive rate everyone unless their response is totally senseless or spam. Then I just skip it. There is no way to see how others rate you but your total "reputation" number does show where you stand as far as your responses or discussions go in the eyes of other mylotters. Sometimes people "revenge rate" and bring the star number down. You have a 3 rating which says that someone or several someones are rating you negatively. Maybe you were in a touchy or controversial discussion and angered people or maybe you just angered one who went around negative rating you. I have no idea, and neither does anyone else, why people rate the way they do or why the star rate goes up and down (Other than people are giving negative rates for some reason). It doesn't affect your earnings so it's really just kind of an ego thing, I think. The best you can do is answer thoughtfully and post quality discussions. The rest if out of your hands. Patty

I just learned about the ratings today, so up until now I have not used them. Now that I am using the ratings I have been giving positive ratings to the people who seem to make a real effort to make a contribution to the discussion. I have noticed, though, that I just don't rate if there is a lot of spelling and grammar errors. I don't know why, but that bothers me.

Honestly I don’t really mind this mylot’s function though I guess I did once before when I was just starting (probably that’s why my rating isn’t that high hahaha…) Well anyway, to rate someone is something I would do if my discussion is so big deal to me. I would read all the responses and choose one or two members to have the most good answers/response.

I think I can give a positive rating only to people who give a good reply to my question. If every people give positive rating to all the answers of their questions, this could be dangerous for the website, because there is not a way to rate members. I try to give not bad ratings to people, because I think that there are not only english people, so there could be some difficulties to write in this language.

I usually a positive rating to anyone who has a great discussion and a great response. Otherwise, I don't bother giving any rating. I do, however, give a negative rating if it's a blatant attempt to get points and money; which is very rare.

Yes sometimes I rate all the good answers by a positive but never rated a negative for anyone even if I don't like his way or what he is saying because if he is writing a something that I don't like this doesn't mean that this thing is bad, but some other times I rate only the one who wrote the discussion.

I usually give most everyone a positive rating except for the abusive ones or the ones that are totally off-topic. I only give a negative to a really abusive, offensive, downright nasty post. There's no way for us to know how others rate us, all we can tell is our average by our star rating. Annie

Hello, for me all this site is mystery ,rules,terms and owner!!I stay and stay here lake drag user,i cant leave !!I cant find a place with that kind of statistic!!I rated everyone as a friend and member!!Warm Regards Silvana

I am the same as you. I very rarely give bad ratings unless the person is blatantly rude. how to tell? hmmm...i don't know either.

Me too i give a good rating to anyone who gives a good reply because i would like other people to do that to me too!