Stars

I was so proud of my 10 star rating until I answered a discussion that was not received with favor. All it was just my opinion, nothing more or less, but her friends took exception to my answer and I dropped down and have never been able to regain my 10 so now I don't bother if it goes up or down or disappears all together, there are discussions on here I truly enjoy and others that I detest, the ones I enjoy I respond to, the ones I detest I ignore, I truly believe if you ignore some thing long enough it will go away. Works for me, and again this is just my opinion your more than welcome to like or disregard Good question Robin

I think Mylot has it own way[algoritm) of evaluating the people. Even if we don't understand it but it has an important function. Just try to be as expressive and honest as possible and your rating will improve and you may even reach on the no. 10.

Well for me i don't care it too much yea , sometime a discussion might be foolish but as long as it is original will do yea .

I had a really long response to your discussion all typed out when this site had a blip and crashed for a second. So, this is my second attempt: My star goes up and down quite a bit. I've noticed that my pay goes up when a lot of people mark me negative. So, I guess it's good to be rated even if it's negative. I remember when they started this rating system and I was against it. It seems to be a way for people to discriminate against other people. But, before they started with the stars, people were always asking about their rating. Maybe that's why they did it. I dunno. I was going to say some other things, but I can't remember now. I think I ate too much sugar today.

I was reading a few other posts on thsi same subject. A lot of the problem is that people are going through whomevers page and rating all their discussions. So if you have a ton of discussions they can go through and give you a positive on each or a negative. Its ridiculous. Apparently, some guy admitted to doing this here on mylot with his friends. Trying to up the star rating this way is way to close to cheating for me. The point was quality of a persons discussions or the person themself. Not because they are friends or enemies. Dont get me wrong I like the idea of the star system, but they need to work out the kinks. And when people admit to tampering like this user did..I'm thinking they should be banned from having a star rating at all.

I was only here several weeks andwent from nine toten then someone did not like the idea of a newbie beng a nine so in the last three days someone or maybe two someones decided to shove me down some more to a pink six and I am still the s ame person I was at nine and ten. I am kind and respectful inmy discussions and in my responses. I try to make intelligent responses and discussions and respect all points of view so do not think I am doing anything wrong.I did get a very nice reply from MyLot which read thanks we are looking into all this. so hope that will help the situation .

yah i guess it still serve its purpose.... also this will determine how activfe we are here in mylot

Most social sites have some sort of rating system. Most of them are misused (abused) by petty sophmoric cliques. This typically leads to some members getting their feelings hurt. The flip-side is that some other people and running around all giddy over their high ratings. Falsely high as they spend all their time trading ratings with their clique. This site is not about quality, it is about crappolla. As social sites go it ranks pretty low and is not taken very seriously and it's demographics are a complete joke.

Hi. Can you believe on the stars. I think i post reasonable postings all this while but look at my stars. It went down from 6. I dont know why. I have seen Lotters with stars as high as 9 with points of only 136 and their postings are rather brief. So I dont want to worry about that too much. Al the best to all of us.

Wow was my response removed? That should speak volumes Scorpio. I'll just post my evidence against the star rating again. I mean the system should be dissolved or at least changed completely. You easily have 9 and 10 stars that don't measure up to other lower star members. I'll post a lighter sampling. Compare it to the efforts of some 9 and 10 stars. A couple of my best discussions http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1360501.aspx http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1360349.aspx Some of my responses to OTHER discussions http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1453269.aspx - Help I have a virus http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1455881.aspx - I need a vacation http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1274661.aspx - Decoration Advice http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1364499.aspx - Our world, like The Matrix? http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1368755.aspx - Stepfather wants a computer