Wow, I'm STILL in this

Well thanks Skinnychick. The thing that gets me even more is seeing some unlikely people getting slammed via star rating. I had no clue someone(some people) did it to you. Knowing you, I realize its a troll or someone who just can't argue. I like your positive attitude towards it too Skinny.

Awww thanks hun- keep your head up. Your right it's just people who cannot intelligently argue. I have met so many great people on here and that makes up for the others..Have a great day!

Aw, thanks Pro. You know how to make a girl blush. :) I think sometimes people on here can misunderstand what someone is saying (remember our own misunderstanding? :P LOL) and take what was said the wrong way, thus getting a negative rating (at least from those that like to hit the negative button). It's not fair, but it happens anyway. I had someone misunderstand one of my responses the other day, but to my surprise my star didn't drop (yet). Maybe this person knows how to play fair on mylot, who knows? LOL And of course then we have the people that hit the negative button because they disagreed with what was said. But I won't even go there.. I do tend to avoid heated topics, so I have no doubt this is why my star is as high as it is, though some days I just have to get in on the action! It really just depends on my mood. :P

You had a 6? I couldn't imagine it. Seriously Sacmom you are something great and I can't see why anyone would want to try anything on you. Thanks for your continued support, I'm really touched .

Ironically your first statement sort of had something to do with our misunderstanding. I have to say you're the one who knows how to make a guy blush *blush* )**(

Hey, you are who you are and you can't be anyone else. And be happy about the people who don't agree with you...atleast they have some kind of opinion about you and you aren't just one in a crowd! That says something about your popularity...good or bad..lol

A salute to you SV. I know some long time buds know who and what I am. Even some disagreeing people still respect that I'm me and what I do. The star system I'll rant at more than my own star. My own star is going nowhere (well, it might go back down again -_-). Either way, I'll still be me. Thanks for the comments.

well it was 9,and it has been going down , I am assuming from bad ratings...

I was a 4 way back at 200 posts and kept it for 800 more posts. Then I got an 8, and 24hrs later, boom back to 5, then 4. Then 5. Its like a rollercoaster and I know I'm getting trolled/star vandalized. The low star rating interest is a support group, so people can vent and we can all come together on it.

What's meant by trollstar is when someone will trail your posting and discussions and just hit negative for anything of yours they find.

Raia, as always you've made a thoughtful addition to this discussion. I'm not trying to horn in on Pro, whose discussion this is, but I'm really "feeling his pain" at the moment so I feel compelled to respond again. It is having friends like you, who are deservedly held in high regard here, that makes me feel troubled by my own dropping star rating. You and some of my other great friends here have obviously done something very right to keep your high ratings while some of my other friends, like Pro, have suffered the same type of fate that I'm currently suffering. I just don't want to have any of my wonderful "Blue Star" friends to think I'm not a good member when they see my rating. It's really sad and frustrating to see what kind of damage one person and maybe a few of her friends, who knows, can do to someone in the blink of an eye. I hate being put on the defensive but I really didn't do anything wrong other than to bring up that it wasn't "nice" to make an allegation about someone's personal life for no reason, at least no reason that I knew of. It's something I'd hope someone would do for me if I were being accused of something possibly unfairly. Many people speak of their religious beliefs but I don't talk about that a great deal but I do believe in the Golden Rule and I try very hard to live my life by it. Oh, well, I guess it's time for me to get over it and move on, right? But I still keep dropping like a fly! Annie

Thanks LouRhi, thanks. I'll keep at it as always. I'll continue when I can too. Keep in touch.

Quite. You've said it and stood by it constantly. For that I commend you Heather.

The thing that gets me is that myLot insist (refer Crash) that 1 or 2 people (or even a handful) cannot affect one's star rating...that means that many have to be rating us negatively for our numbers to drop. If there is a big drop, that must mean hundreds of users are rating us negatively. Now that gives credence to the idea that interesting, intelligent and well written discussions don't cut the mustard...said discussions must obviously be over the top of some users heads. It also makes me think that blue stars are popular so automatically (in a lot of cases) must get a plus vote. And, anything that is not blue draws a negative vote. It's a bit trite but not if you look at the big picture.

Thanks for BR friend. If you wish to see your star rise, try and be less helpful and friendly and post some time wasting discussions...this helps hundreds of members get their blue star from what I can make out...

I'm still trying to figure out why my own plummets happened. I mean... 8 then 4. Someone had to be angry or unable to argue back. I have to agree I've seen a few people earn their lower ratings, but I see more people with lower or middle ratings even though they are very good for mylot. Thanks for sharing your peace MsTickle. Sorry about your instance of being doubleteamed unfairly. As always, if something really bothers you or if you want a word, I'm just a PM away. That goes for all my friends on the lot.

Good point, I hadn't thought of that. My brain doesn't think in decimals i guess! lol.

There might be something to the calculation, but I really don't know. I'm thinking the friend may have 95.000001 and you might have 94.600001. They may round it off, but something does seem odd about the situation you brought up Sissygrl. I'm boggled. =P

Gee, I just had to add that I dropped two more points overnight. The troll doesn't sleep, apparently! Annie

As always, thanks a million for your support. I vote for the designer star and for them to make it so in order for someone to rate someone in a discussion other than the one they started they should have to make at least one response to that discussion. My thought is the trolls wouldn't do that in many cases because most immature, small-minded people seem to assume others are just like them so they wouldn't want to expose themselves to the same abuse they're giving out. Annie

I guess your current detractor(s) don't sleep, or they have the free time to keep doing it. I mean its a lot. Trying to page through each response just to hit a negative. Somehow they do it. -_- I do like the idea of decorator stars. Thats excellent!! As for responses I'm glad at your comment on it. For the discussions, hey fair enough. I understand about the discussions, especially science and philosophy. *loving chuckle* Hopefully your star will get back to 8 and higher Annie. Should be easier for you and you do have my votes of course.

There's plenty of responses to go through, and I realize I can say some things people don't agree with, and other things people REALLY don't agree with. I'm glad to say that even members who don't agree still see what I'm saying and respect my efforts in posting. Even better than that, I spend more time helping others, supporting others and having fun with others on mylot. I'm very glad more members see and know this. Thank you very much Pom.

The worst part is I've plused virtually everything you've done... and nothing happened. In fact I think I was trying to rate your stuff and then the third time I went on a run you had the infamous "0" star. I was stunned. Red if anyone's a hero you're one. There are people intentionally going the other direction (that's right I have to see how some of their efforts went). Being one of two known members that held the seemingly impossible 0 star, you're a hero to people doing the star ratings protest.

Weird... it might be someone following you negativing anything new you've got while other members are rating you positive. Keep in mind the negatives have more weight than positives. So it could be that people are rating you, but someone is tailing you and hitting negative. Its imbalanced though. Several people are helping you step forward but its all erased due to one or two people hitting negatives. Thanks for the compliment. I really like how this avatar turned out. Might adjust it a bit more, but I knew this one was "mylot worthy!"

Recent victims for the most part are losing either a few points or a couple of star levels... and its the first time. Still a sad situation though. I on the other hand have been through the star system drop and crash three different times. And on top of that the star rating doesn't really move anymore. There is quite a disparity between the victimization. But there's no reason to pack up or stay silent or anything of the sort.

And this star will twinkle in the mylot nightsky... for quite awhile it seems! I like your opinion of this too. Having top billing in some of the interests is pretty neat too.