Your mylot star

That seems odd to me too. I don't really pay attention to my star unless someone makes a discussion on it. Why would she want everyone to mark her negative? Did you do it? I would think that if you have a 10 star that tells others you are good at starting and responding to discussions. I don't get how yours went down either.

The stars were not an issue until a few weeks ago when a lot of good members experienced huge drops in star ratings due to trolls. People were upset by this because yes it is just a star, but when it drops suddenly it means you are being rated negative, to some people they felt that it meant that they were not liked until us, their friends put them at ease about it. But some members left due to all the bad feeling. The ones that are asking you to rate them negative are simply at the point that they have had enough of it and so just want the star rating finished, and so until it is scrapped they do not want their stars, the only way to get the star down is to rate them negative when they ask you too. The more people rate another persons discussion or comment to a discussion negative then the lower the star rating will fall, as it is based on a points system out of 100.

Well, I am at 8 for one month . I am trying to get 10 here , but I think its not easy . I don't get positive rate for my responses and discussion , I think . I feel , If you have friends here then they will rate you positive and then you can get 10 in your star and can keep it . Otherwise no care about rate ... Thanks !!!

The star isn't important at all and I never pay attention to anyone else's star. But I use mine as a personal yardstick to let me know if I am keeping up on my discussion quality. It's just a little thing that means something to me personally, not a badge or sign for anyone else. There is no competition in Mylot so the star has little meaning to anyone else really.

when I first came to mylot I was rated a ten very shortly and I felt sort of pround thinking that my fellow mylotters must think highly of me. than I made a few discussions that got a lot of responses but also a lot of really insulting responses. then overnight I went to a nine then ten back to nine then someone really did a number and in two days I slid to a six but am now up to a seven and my rating is slowly moving up in points. I am not competing but think it wrong of people to hit minus just because their opinion does not agree with yours. People can deliberately hit the minus key so many times they can slid your number way down but they have to be deliberately doing this for a long period of time.

I couldn't care less about my star. I was a 93 yesterday, today I'm 80-something. Whatever. I'd rather be stuck at 7, as I like white. Plus, the white star blends in with the white background here. I know not everyone is going to agree with what I wil post, an dif they they get their immature jollies by giving me a negative rating, so be it. It really doesn't phase me on bit. It isn't like it affects my pay.

We have stars? What are they for? HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

not really on the star thing..but i guess its an additional bonus or shall we say incentives..i had also read that discussion about ghost and requesting us to give her a negative ratings..maybe its a reverse psychology she had applied on us so that we cant give her a negative one?just asking really not trying to provoke anyone here...on my part i really dont give a negative rating to anyone even if the discussion is below the belt or whatever..what i did was ignore and proceed to another discussions...i dont respond to those kind of discussions..

How strange, it doesn't really make a lot of sense to see your star drop over something like that. For what it's worth I am happy to rate you +. I don't really notice the stars and ratings on here, and I'm not sure if the rating system really works anymore anyway.

I don't care that my star is only a 9. I am happy with what I have to say and the way I say it if others can't handle the truth they shouldn't of asked the question to start with. I don't really rate anyone anymore. I don't start as many discussions like I use to start.

Hi dear have u seen the Yo Yo game? star system at mylot os like that, some times go down, then up then down, and i really dont care about that, 3-4 days back i was 93, then slip to 92 and now 91 now i am waiting for Yellow color. I never worried about star rating nor about earning i just like the company of my friends and thats important to me. i started a discussion as what happened to me in these 2-3 days, just check it out http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1522735.aspx take care and enjoy

my star is 8 but i dot see any stars in your why??? but you have lot of posts.. thats great how much have you earned here??

I dont really understand whats her purpose in asking to rate her negative. Anyway, I've been with myLot for about 2 months now and I don't really know exactly how these stars and ratings affects our earnings. All I know is I like to have a 10 for I find having it as something that is being worked on. I know our ratings wont just raise up if we didnt do anything. On the other hand I also wonder why others who got 10 or 9 easily lowers to 7 or 8. Is it really because someone else rated them negative? Not really sure with this.

I also read about her discussion to rate her negative. I respond and I tell her not, I am not rating her negative...

Your star will rise again. I am sure of that. I don't think any less of anyone with a lower star rating. It does not mean they are no good at responding. Some people will give a negative rating if they disagree with an opinion, even though this goes against myLot guidelines. It would not be right to ask people to give you a positive rating so I don't think it can be right to ask for a negative one.

Personally I don't understand why it's a big concern but I respect their wishes sort of. I cannot rate most of these folks negatively. I don't use the minus sign unless someone was extremely abusive. Even then I hestitate to use it. I simply refrain from rating those who I know are on the quest to rid the star. :) Everybody else gets a positive and I'm one of those who will go right down the list pressing the little plus sign. I just like to give pluses. :) I'm so sorry that this happened to some on here and I'm sorry that I can't hit that neg sign but I will respect your quest and not rate you if that is what you are doing.

We get stars on here? I didn't even notice. and to reply to your question: if i did know that i had a star and saw it go down, i would wonder why but if i conclude that i have not done anything wrong then i would assume that the person who knocked me down was just not a nice person. it is pretty obvious that that is the kind of person who you were dealing with. one person is not going to change who i am. the star is just a representation of how people think of you, but most of the time it is just random people. if someone ever did that to me, i'd just brush it off becuase it doesn't really affect my life personally. anyway, thats how i feel.