Should users only giving + to a certain user purposefully be restricted?

Sad very sad! It should never been done. that is why I say avoid those nasty guys religious topics. There are people who belive in healthy and fruitful discussion. Whey wasting time on those nasty people discussion. My best wish with you! I hope we can rate you up from where you can see yourself at a reasonable position!

Mine suffered a bashing too a few months back but... by one user? Surely it's teamwork? Would it be possible to inflate it too in the ame way?

I, too, find MyLot's insistence on the integrity of the rating system somewhat at variance with what seems to be the fact of the matter. It is one reason why I tend to judge people by their input (as seen on their profiles) in conjunction with their star colour. When (and if) such a rating system seems to give me information which I can see is useful, I may then begin to give it some credit. Until then I shall give it what weight is meaningful to me, which, at the moment, is a very qualified one.

It is quite a challenge to mylot mathematician that they catch these abusive work even if it was done by a team,no matter how big it is. I started to believe that star system now has been rectified after reading FAQ and the discussion I had mentioned but recently, just recently I heard that one of the mylot user lost her 9 rating points overnight. I saw the hot discussion also where she was being attacted by one or two mylotian. I am still wondering, if that was a team work or done by only one or two. the problem is that once they track it with one or two users, the damage is already done if the affected user is new, because - rating has bigger impact for new users. MYKLJ999_VERSION_2 (1470): Why can't I see your avatar? Owlwings: Interesting way to give ratings. I am not that hard worker, I just give my rating based on discussion quality. That too I wasn't doing till last month. Before that I used to give only + rating no matter how good or bad the discusison quality was!

I like your proposal in principle, Michaeldadona, but the disadvantage is similar to the one that has virtually killed a number of the 'survey' sites (or at least, has caused them to modify their terms). As has been stated, false positive ratings are potentially as damaging to the MyLot DRS system as negative ones. It seems that the DRS system MAY detect all anomalies in ratings, whether negative or positive though I wish that Crash had been a little more specific. I would advocate a system with a little more transparency, something along the lines of Yahoo! Answers system but perhaps with a little more flexibility than a 'thumbs up'/'thumbs down' rating, though that might work. My proposal would see responses to a discussion ordered by the rating they have acquired so that those which many people think are good responses would tend to rise to the top. The discussion owner would always have the final say (by giving a BR) and his/her BR vote would always be more important than other votes. I can see this system being an interesting challenge to the mathematicians in MyLot (and I can think of a number of entertaining ways in which it might be implemented). The end result would be that, if one looked at a fairly old discussion with many responses, one would see those responses which most tended to be voted 'good' at the head of the thread. Those responses with less general approval would sink to the bottom of the pile. Already, though, I am anticipating a problem with this in that a discussion may have a handful of mediocre responses in its lifetime, which may receive votes according to peoples' perception of the available responses but then someone enters the discussion with a superb response that gets very few votes because the discussion is already old. It is inevitably easier to find flaws in any existing system and to suggest amendments. Actually, the proper way to go is to look for its strengths and to try to use those to advantage. Having done that successfully, one then may be in a position to suggest improvements!

Thanks owlwings ~ for your high quality comment, communication skills and kind of nice suggestions; overall seven (7) paragraphs well presented in neat discipline in writing. OK ~ I can accept your suggestion forwarded by comparison with what had been implemented by Yahoo Answer! Hopes our shout heard by myLot admin..

I can choose the degree of liking either for level 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5. That would be too much work for us as a mylotian. Thanks guys for proving such high quality response as well as comments. I have read crash's response and according to him, if one team would do things purposefully then that can also be tracked. I don't know how much mylot can track that but bad things are still happening, so this rating system has not done good till date but it has been improved a lot. I can remember 2-3 years back when DRS was introduced, people tends to loose their star by 4 or 5 over night and mine also was affected by that. Now, I don't know what mathematicians are doing but my choice is to stick with current DRS system. The star rating must be given on average number of + or - we get for a day. If on particular day we get more than what our average is then we will get increase in rating or vice versa. In this case the older mylotian be the harder for the scamers to hit bad or good!

If I have occasion to report a discussion (or a response), I will rate it negative; very occasionally I feel that a discussion is not in the spirit of MyLot but is not worth reporting and I will then rate it negative. (It also helps me to know whether I have dealt with a discussion before). Much more often, though, I rate good content as positive. I am sorry to say that I am not as assiduous about this as I might be!

I seldom rate a discussion negative. I can remember only once I did it because the discussion was abusing some religion and must have to be rated. Not to mention I didn't respond to that too!

I like your way of doing this task. I appreciate it too! Thanks for responding

yes, they always tried to sneak through and don't give good and pin pointed answers. I think they dont want to do hard work to make rating look good for those who actually are good. Democracy is good until one can manupulate with it, isn't it?

(un)luckily I don't run a forum otherwise I would have faced the same situation. Rules are made for us but if we don't follow and try to find holes in it then nothing can go nice for us. It should be remember that ultimately it is the end user who gets suffered if the rules are not obeyed. So, did you get your problem solved of 10 discusiosn getting deleted every day?

Sanu- A valuable lesson learned about democracy, eh? It's not full proof and it's not without problems. It is however one of the few forms of rule that allow for the people to voice their concerns,and hopefully come together in peace to make changes for the better. The thing with forums, of any kind, is there are always "leaders" and "creators". No matter how well off they wish to be, they are still human, and prone to human error. I know that many on here run their own forums, so they can attest to the issues that occur. One wants to be fair, without judgement, but sometimes a decision must be made, and it's not always an easy one. Sometimes it's a matter of casting out both parties in a dispute just to get it over with, regardless of who is at fault. Not always fair, but sometimes needed for the better of the community. Just keep working hard, I'm sure it will pay off in time. Namatse-Anora

It is about your star rting my friend. You have 8 star with your user name. It means that only 2 rating below from the top. If I will rate you + you will rise and if I will rate you - you will fall. So, no matter what you say, your rating is in my hands!

Thanks, that helps me understand a lot better.

MyLot say that the Discussion Rating System "is factored into our proprietary earnings algorithm, so this will help us properly reward valuable contributions to the myLot community."

This is ridicoluous and I could see crash's response. I never read him saying that it reflects earnings! He is not responding these days too!

May be they didn't as here mylot didn't rely on star raing to make payments, do they? Sorry but what PTP business?

Purposefully means choosing a particular person and rating him negative or positive contineously. I think mylot should restrict a user from getting more than a certain number of rating, which it is not doing these days.

I don't see any problem in rating plus with good discussions. Even mylot says that we shouldn't rate negative just because we don't agree with the point. Rate negativ only if you feel that the person is voilating any term or abusing something!

yes, that is the only reason why you can see quality user with low star rating. They always are been targetted by some wicked mind users. They are among us but sadly we can't track them. Only admin can!

They didn't disclose as what exactly is 'purposefully', so you don't have to worry but can enjoy mylotting.