If someone has a 10 star rating, do you still rate them?

Actually I do not think we can assume that those wth a blue star are not being rated either positive or negative. Possibly if they have a blue star, most of the time they get a positive rating but recently I read where some point/star ratings have taken a sudden drop. There have and still are discussions about "trolls" and it is said they are people who seem to actively "attack" the ratings on certain members by giving them a negative. For that reason a positive needs to be awarded if the response or discussion warrants it. You are correct when you say the member who has a blue star will not notice a change if they get a positive rating. To the best of my knowledge that is true or at least what I have read here in other discussions. In the past I have seen were someone has commented something like "Excellent response. Thanks for your help. I have given you a positiove (+) rating" or words to that effect but the main point is that someone has taken the time to rate a person positive and also comment on that fact. Hope that helps you a little bit and that you can understand what I am saying. It is the best way that I can think of how to explain it to you right now ... brain is fuddled. lol

Yes is great to rate people who have made a positive impact on whatever discussion we started and if feels like give them a positive rating then that's is great, but one thing that make me wonder is how will this people see or know that they are being rated(obviously positively) by other members? I mean for someone who has maybe a 5 star rating will easily see when his/her stars starts to go up that people do rate him/her. And i think is a bit not fair for those with blue star, although i do rate them but sometimes i wonder where is my rating going because then this people have reached the maximum and they are on top there I mean what if no one rate them positive and again no one rate them negative, how will they know that people still do rate them because i believe your rating cannot go down if you are inactive or no one rate you bad

That is so true, rating the contents and i think the results of rating those contents do reflect on the individual's status in terms of their stars. I do good contents for people with good responses but sometimes i feel like am i wasting my rating here, i mean this is the person who is on top and yet i rate them...where will my rating go? But i still rate them if they are good in what they have responded or if i feel that they clarified something that i didn't know

The thing is that...they cannot see when people rated them positive, like now i just rated you how will you see that, because you already have a blue star?, don't you think is unfair to you guys because for us who have not yet reached the blue star we can see when people do rate us, we could see by our rating status going up but for you is like a different story because you already on maximum ratings?

I get an idea now, but what in case of someone who always make positive responses, someone who don't deserve to get negative ratings, someone who has great respect and who is well respected here, not that we don't respect or not respected here but someone with that great reputation, will that still be necessary to rate them? I mean don't you think is a waste?, yes i do rate people who have less that 10 star rating but when i see someone with the maximum rating then i always think that maybe I'm wasting my time in rating them

Just rate the post on the basis of how you find it. When you find it positive then rate positive but if you find it negative then rate negative. Don't ever be hindered by his or her present rating. In fact I believe you get also some benefits from doing so.

Benefits, Salonga, what kind of benefits are those, are you saying that affect the earning in one way or the other?

Is been 3 days now and I'm stuck on 9, apparently you rating goes up when people rate you positive and goes down when they rate you negative and the maximum for the rating is 10 as you might know, but i am wondering is do we have to rate those people who have 10th star?. By saying do we have to rate them I'm only referring to rating them positive because if we rate them negative obviously they will go down but we have to keep rating them positive even if they have already archived 10th star?

I hear you Hildas and sorry about you loss of that seat up there, i think the ratings are fair for others and a bit unfair on others. It is fair for those who have not yet got the 10th star because then they can see the progress when their ratings go up. And a bit unfair on those who have already reached the maximum because they cannot see that they have rated positively, the only thing they will see is when people rate them negatively and end-up loosing few rating(like in your case). I have heard someone here saying that the ratings do affect the way we earn and i am totally not sure about that and I'm yet to find out about it

Well I do not think myself that a higher rating affects the earnings. My earnings where the same. I guess we will never know. I do not know how I went down to a nine but I must of annoyed someone or something which I do not really do, but sure I will work hard again to get back up there. Take care.

I am not sure why people do that. I thend to think it ios because they are jealous that they can not obtain the 10 star status. But in reality it is not that hard if you follow the MyLot guidelines and respond to yoru friends discussions as well. I do think what one does here on MyLot can affect how others leave star ratings or not as well. I think giving someone a plus rating helps keep someone a ten star. When you get one or two people who down rate a member for having a ten star rating. So, in the long run even thou you don't see it. It does help keep teh rating up. Next time you look at your star, pull your mouse over it and look at your rating. Mine is a 96 out of a 100. That means someone has downrated me at least 4 percent of the time from keeping me from having a perfect score. Also it would not take much to bring my score back down.

Whatpeople really do that, i mean why would someone do that, is it out of jealousy? If there are people doing that i think is just bad, how can someone be always trying to bring us down? But i think is fair to rate people who made difference in our discussions but those with blue star sometimes i wonder when i rate them if whether my rating will count or will it get thrown away, because then they reached the maximum rating needed.

That's better but how will that person we just rated who has a 10th star know that because the only i believe is possible is when your rating goes up but here the person has already achieved the maximum, now how will he/she knows that they have received lot of positive ratings lately?

I don't think that is the case here... even if the person will not see progress... that doesn't mean that we should not give him/her the positive rating he/she deserves... so it is really up to you if you want to or not... nothing will be lost if you do what you think is right...

Yep that is fair, but how will the person you just rated see the progress in that, i mean if someone has not yet reached that maximum rating obviously will see the progress when he/she see their rating going up. Like right now when i rate you, i don't think you will see any progress in that, although you deserve it but then you wont see it because you already reached the maximum. Thanks

Is always fair to rate people who have responded with positive response toward your discussion or if you feel that a certain member really have made difference in one or two things that you had no knowledge of. But do you think is fair for them, because they cannot see or know if whether people still do rate them, because the only way they should know is when their star goes up but in this case they have already reached the maximum

I am sorry you lost the top seat, well for i've been on 9 i think is now thirty something days and like you said i never worry about anything. I think is always great to rate everyone that respond to your discussion as to show the appreciation even though those on blue star might see it, and i think is unfair to them because they cannot see when people rate them positive, the only way they will see that people do rate them is when their rating goes down like in your case

I don't remember rating anyone negative either but i think there are unfairness for those on top because they cannot see when people are rating them positive. What would happen if someone is on a blue star and no one rate the negative or positive, i guess it wont go down and obviously not up either, how will that particular person know that they are being rated or not because then no one is rating them. I do rate people with blue star when i feel that they helped me on certain thing which maybe i needed clarification on or maybe they have been so supportive but still i wonder how where does my rating goes because this person is already on blue star

I never give negative rating either but is difficult because then you cannot see what the other person is rating you, and i think that is fair about mylot not to reveal that because then there might be lot of hatred here. But i think then is fair for us to rate yes that i agree but unfair for those who have reached that because you cannot see the progress on your ratings

I didn't know that it does affect the way we earn but if it really do then i guess i have make sure that i rate as many people as i can because then they would do the same, even though i am not sure who earns, is it me the one who is rating or is it the the one who got rated?

The stars simply shows how effective you are here, how much you really contribute here, but overall is not that important but yet most people want to see themselves having that rating. I am sorry to hear that some of you discussions received no responses or comments but it happen most of the time to me also. My 9 rating has been stuck like that for the past 39 days now and i have been online most of the time, i guess i contribute less to the community but i don't have to worry about a thing because that do not affect my earnings