Do you give negative ratings for one liners? Or do you just not rate them?

No, I do not give negative ratings for one liners. I do one liners. Sometimes it is something I don't have a lot to say about, but it is a friend's discussion, and I want to do it. My star is going down by the day....and it goes down because people do not agree with me and love to argue. I have rated very few negatively....however, now, I am going to have to change that...lol :)

I have only rated negatively when the answer was a word or 3 and totally stupid. Like I post a long discussion and get "yup, it is" PLEASE! That's not an response, it's an attempt to raise numbers and against mylot rules!

That depends. At times, it is much harder to get a one-liner that explains it all, but it has been done in which the one-liner made more sense than many of the other responses, but not often though. The one-liners that are completely irrelevant gets reported, & from immediately after to few days later, they're gone. The guidelines do state to add some substance to the discussion or response.

I do not vote any response just because it is short. Sometime a short response is right to the point and will even give it a best response is it is a great answer!

One word, I probably would let it go and not rate..I only rate negative if they are rude..One liners, it depends, sometimes all it takes is one line and if it was a good line, then I rate positive..

I do not rate negatively for one liners. I appreciate all responses. There is no need to rate negative as far as I can tell. Happy myLotting! :)

I never rate people negatively for their posts or responses, irrespective of how long their posts were. I only give positive ratings, but only for posts that leave a good impression on me and I feel good reading. Otherwise I will just not rate it. I never feel good giving anyone negative ratings.

I don't rate them. I don't like rating negatively because we don't really know their reasons for just writing one-liners, maybe as of that moment, they can't think of anything more to say, right? So, I just give them some slack. Plus, you can't really force people to express themselves. Similarly, I also am quite disturbed when people mark negative ratings. I don't see the point however of the ratings, it doesn't make our earnings bigger or smaller for the matter. It's just there as a decoration of which star we get hehehhe So, There you go. I never rate negative ratings on people who only write one-liners. I do that though to people who obviously are just typing to get earning without really thinking or without even reading the topic.

AmbiePam, As for me, I would not want to rate a negative unnecessarily even if it is a one liner response. I feel that there are some valid grounds here for my doing: 1. New members 2. Valid and substance in that sentence. 3. The subject does not promote and require an elaborate response. Besides, this is a discussion forum and we need response of every member. Lest the member is flaming, spamming and does not participate in a positive spirit. Of course, there's another area where we should remember and that is our background hard working mods. So, everything being fair and square here, the least I could do is not rate at all for some unscrupulous character. Take care and may I commend you for posting a great discussion here.

I try not to rate anyone negatively but I sometimes will rate a one liner negatively if I ask that a member be thorough. If the one line is thorough, then I won't rate negatively but instead positively. I will rate negatively if it has nothing to do with the discussion sometimes, as I feel that people should ask if they do not understand.

Nope, I'm not one to rate others negatively. I only use it when the discussions is too racist or offensive. otherwise, I don't give people negative ratings. I know some mylotters give a minus when you disagree with their discussions, but I think mylot is a place where any kind of opinion should be expressed. So if you want to write one liners, then feel free to do so, but don't whine if you don't get paid!

I'm always grateful for a response no matter how long the length. I think that if you can make a relevant and interesting in point in one or two lines, its better than typing a bunch of worthless filler.

hey,i'm the newcomer of mylot!so i don't know much of the rules... but i never give the negtive rate to anyone~one the other hand,i always give the "+" to everyone who responed me ..haha.. maybe can you tell me some experience about it?!

No! I never give a negative rating to anyone on MyLot, it affects their earnings. One liners are ok. Sometimes when you answer the discussion, you get writers block and do not know what to say, so you just write something stupid. I have done this a few times, especially on some friends discussion. I do not like to ignore my friends discussions and sometimes they do not interest me, so instead of not replying I just write something short. I think also these people have replied to your discussions and have taken time to reply to it, so they have actually done you good. The more replies you get the better. (even the short ones)

I rarely give a negative response and don't rate for one liners or one word. I figure Mylot deals with those that respond that way already but the number and color of their stars. I think I have only rated negatively only twice in the over two years I have been here and it was totally inappropriate response and I am sure I wasn't the only one who rated it negatively either.

I only rate negative for a short answer if it has nothing to do with the discussion and does not even say anything about the discussion. For instance, if a discussion was about an illness and someone popped in and said, "See my blog the link is on my profile, it will make money" I might rate that negative. I usually just leave it and put as much effort into it as they did.

I only rate negatives for one liners if they are rude or if they are completely off topic. Sometimes you can get a pretty good response in just one sentence. I have been known to do a few one liners myself here and there.

i dont think so that one liners deserve to be negative rated and i dont do that. i know many people response in one line might be they are lacking of ideas in that topic and also it is possible that they just want to add up for the discussion and this is fine and i dont rate anything for that. i usually dont reply in one line as it earns nothing and i everytime find and answer the discussions where i can write more and i can get more of ideas. so it is always better to select the discussions which you are interested in and where you can write more.

I would either still give a + rating for the effort that they have put in order to come over to my discussions and leave a response an dI do pity them as those one liner hardly earned anything and later they would just come back and complain that their earnings are very low even though that they have posted a lot. However, if the one liner response is totally out of context or not even related to the topic of the discussions, i would just not give them any rating. I do not give negative rating to people although I do notice some people do deserve that. Anyway, who am I to judge that, right? So, if I do not like them, I would just let them be but I know some people out there are very sensitive over certain things and like to take things to personally and these people would normally give negative rating if they do not like something that they read. Cheers!

I do never rate negatively anyone. Except those who wrote something negative or bad. And I rated only once negatively at all.