When to Give Negative Rating?

I always wondered this too! I'm stoked I saw this discussion! I do still feel like I've recieved negative ratings because people didn't agree with me. I haven't plaigerized or anything. Whatever though, it's only a silly star! Happy MyLotting! =]

I've never given a negative rating, but I think they should be used for trolls,and people looking to start arguments, intead of discussions. like the people who ask for your opinion, and then get upset when you give it. some people give negatives if you don't agree with them. that's not a good reason for giving someone a negative.

I haven't rated anyone negatively.Even if anyone disagrees with me i welcome their discussion becoz it is their personal opinion.To be frank i haven't thought of negative rating.

I have never given a negative rating to any discussion. It even has it in the mylot FAQ. http://www.mylot.com/o/faq/faq17.aspx. Different opinions is what make myLot work as a good discussion site. Without peoples opinion, there would not be a myLot. I would only ever consider giving a negative rating if I felt the user was abusing myLot. Although most of the time I wouldn't rate at all if a member was abusing Mylot.

I don't think that disagreeing with someone is a good reason to give a negative rating. I don't even give negative ratings to people who are rude to me. I only give people negative ratings if they're breaking the rules, trolling, or spamming.

I rarely negatively rate someone, but I find that I do it when they are spamming out their referral links like nobody's business. This is annoying, and hardly helpful (and also against the rules, I'm pretty sure), and it just bugs me. *shrugs*.

Hi eichs1, How is the weather at Philipine today? Bali is cloudy. I won't give a negative rating. I believe we are here have the same purpose and learn something. All i want just post and sharing. Alls that. You know, negative suspicious people sometime talks about them self. Happy posting always, oxox' dian from Bali island.

My reasons for giving negatives may include those who are being unreasonably rude, are in violation, or are spamming or posting nonsense. But it depends on the exact situation. A newbie violating a rule will not get a negative, just a friendly heads up, unless of course they continue violating the rules even after being told. I do not give a negative if a person disagrees with me provided they have done so in an adult manner. I do not give negatives based on my friendship or lack thereof with the poster. I do not give a negative in response to how I feel they may have rated me. I do not give a negative just because I feel like it. I give negatives very rarely and only when I feel they are truly deserved.

I would give someone a negative rating if they posted something non-related to the topic. People have rights to give opinions, so I don't think it would be fair to give some one a negative rating if they disagree. If you have something against the poster, I don't think it's fair either, since they're really doing nothing wrong. You never know who rated you negatively before, so you might just end up negative rating an innocent person. If you "just feel like it", you're basically giving the person gloom because you're in that mood. I think you should just be fair in your ratings.

I have not given any negative rating to any one till now and well i would like to know why the need to give a negative rating to any one, well every one has his own decision to respond , if you like you reply him else forget him but why to give a rating to him?

i don't even know that people can give us a negative rating, i myself is a new user to this site and really appreciate that others can help me too. by the way i only know how to mark the best response and i will never put any negative rating that effect other people. to the most i just won't mark it as the best response

I would NEVER rate anyone negative if he/she does not agree with me on a particular topic. In fact, the whole purpose of having discussion is to know about the different views of different people, which can be in agreement or otherwise from mine. I would rate a topic as negative if I think there is no quality in it.Sometimes people start discussions just for the sake of it. I would typically rate those one or two line responses/ discussions as negative. However, I am not too much into giving negative rating

I too have never given any one negative rating. I and i am sure i will not give too. I am against giving negative rating. Not even if he is cheating or doing something wrong. People have been very kind here and i dont want to introduce that hatred here. Its a happy family and wanna stay it happy forever. God has been kind to us and so we get responses from our friends and other members, but what who dont get any responses, they are trying their best too....instead of giving negative response just because we have the power, i would prefer to make him understand the right way.

I have read from MyLot that giving negative reports can do harm for users. So i don't and i will never give any negative remarks on such users even if it gets your nerve when they respond to your discussion or so. I am very careful here not to offend anyone. Since Mylot is to promote unity among each users and not to go into heated debate or argument. They have the right to lower your points i guess. So on my own personal opinion, i would not like to rate any users a negative post.

I will give a negative rating if the response has no meaning to the original post. I figured why did they answer then if they had nothing to say or they were just going to sound like they were high. i am sure all posters here have had that odd response were you are just like "what is this person on?" I know I have .

eichs1, I do not think there is so much incidents or posts that would warrant a negative rating except for some trolls and some unbecoming members who spams the discussions. So far, most of the posts here are relatively within the decency boundaries, there may be strong harsh words but that's just normal in any hot debatable issues. IMO, I would not be giving negative ratings based on what you have brought up here. It would not be fair to do it, certainly not conducive for a healthy and objective discussion. Take care.

I haven't given a negative rating even if the response is very bad and is attacking me personally. I would rather leave those responses uncommented to avoid getting a fight. I once received a negative rating from somebody who didn't want me to share my own experience to the discussion she responded. I felt bad about it. I don't want to offend anybody here, that's why I don't give negative ratings.

I only give a negative rating if the post is totally off topic. For example, I ask you ask a question about how to say... fix your car. And I reply saying how much I love rollar coasters. There's really no point in me saying that, and it's totally irrelavant. Irrevalancy = negative rating as far as I'm concerned.

I don't rate someone negative because they disagree with me. I rate people negatively if they are promoting false information or if they are being rude and disrespectful to another MyLot user just because they disagree with them. There are people here who start topics and award the best response to someone who completely disagrees with them, I received one of those before. If a person disagrees with me but they gave a well thought out response then I will give them a positive rating. I also wouldn't give someone a negative rating because I thought that they rated me negative themselves and I wouldn't give one just because I feel like it.

I myself only knew that you could give a neagative rating a few weeks ago. I have used it only when I felt that the person really was not making an effort to respond to my discussion. I am not really into giving people a bad rating I think it is kinda of unfair in a way. My hope is that I think they will do better as they learn the rounds here at mylot. I hope I answered your questions here and happy mylotting as well.