When do you rate a person a negative (-)?

Hi laydee, I can remember when was the last time I use - rate here. I think I have used it once or twice before as I did not like to use it after all. The only time I will use it is when someone give a totally unacceptable, rude, racism and spamming posts. Other then that I am okey with. For me, discussion is the place where we can share our opinion. When we come to share opinion, it would be a different from a person to the others, from one culture or custom to the others and from one location/geographical place to the others. It is because we are coming from the different background, different race and/or religion and different country. That's why we have a different opinion. We can not judge someone base on our point of view. Something might be wrong from our point of view because we did not familiar with it in our culture. But that's does not make us right. Others might seen it as something normal because it is happen in their daily life. So basically, we can not impose others to believe what we believe and the others can not force us to accept what we did not accept in our culture. This is normal. But to give a - rate someone else posts because they did not agree with us is totally unacceptable. It is childish.

I never rate anyone negative. Everyone has the right to their own opinions, and I won't punish someone for not agreeing with me. That's childish.

First, I have to ask...since the rating system here is anonomous, how could you possibly know who is doing the rating, what they are rating and why they rate it that way? I personaly do not use the rating system, I refuse to. I will either continue backing my arguments with supprting facts and expressibg my beliefs based on those facts. If someone becomes abusive, I simply report the abuse.

Hi, laydee. I am like you. I will rate a person negatively when they are nasty and mean to me. Like if they insulted or criticized me in a hurtful and intentional way. Otherwise, if they don't agree with me and they are respectful about it, I don't rate them negatively. I understand and comprehend that not everyone thinks and feels the same as each other. We all here, will just have to interpret this while we are posting and enjoying ourselves here at myLot.

I would only rate a person a negative if he/she is being so rude in his/her response. Sometimes, I would rate the person after I saw his/her comments even I finally didn't response to the discussion.

I've used the negative sign a couple of times but it was to those who started a very nonsensical discussion. Like, for instance 'i have a secret but i'd rather not tell it. Do you have a secret?' something like this. I even answered it to prove to him it was nonsense.

I never rate a person negative. Either I rate a positive or I do not rate at all. We should all be level minded and accept that people are entitled to their own opinions. MyLotters come from all over and have different beliefs, culture and point of views and we should accept that. But I do report abuse when the person is using foul language and those deliberately insulting another person.

Negative person is someone who may transfer his or her negative attitude or mood to others,I think. I may meet one. (Just one,hope no more)varication must be exsit between two human beings,even the twins. The negative person I met just always complaine the life, friends, God about the problem he met. When I tried to comfort him to think positively, his feedback is angry. I really do not know what to do then. Anyway, hope the negative person will not hurt anybody,including himself.

Sorry, I don't even rate people negative here on Mylot. It would have to be a completely off topic rude remark posting that a person would make here. Then I would think about giving him or her a negative for that. I hope that getting a negative from someone doesn't drive people away.

I never put negative marks to those people I don't like. Even how silly or how stupid the reasoning of some people in here. Even if its personal attack or what so ever. But I do report them to mylot..lolz. So I never give negative grade but I just report them.. So that its mylot to decide and not me.

I don't rate people negative at all here in mylot. I think it's wrong to rate someone who disagrees with you. Everyone has different opinion so their responses are not to annoy you but to be shared, it's their own view of the topic so why rate negative on what they think? it's annoying to have that rate but we are but humans who are not perfect to know everything that could hurt other people even in the real world.

Hi. I haven't really rated anyone yet. But all you're saying is true. People who doesn't want opposite reactions or get offended by them shouldn't post discussions. Because for me, it would be useless, I think their reason for posting discussion is not really for learning purposes because but just for the sake of earning. Because their hearts are not open to negative reactions. They only want to be agreed to. If I were them, I would just respond to comments instead. Anyway, I just want to ask, how will you know if someone rated you with a negative? Hoping for you response

Just like you i will just put negative to someone's response if its offtopic and its not at all contributing to the said conversation. But i never tell the person that he or she is offtopic at all, i know how to respect someones idea no matter how bad it might sound like. I know a person here in mylot who will even comment back to you saying gee your off the topic i think i need to open a new discussion for you .If you simple dont agree with someone's thoughts then just dont comment on his or her idea, no need to rub it in his or her face lol . Anyways thats how i post negative rating, when offtopic and makes no sense.Thanks for asking

Obviously I'm new here, but I think I am able to share my opinion on this. For someone to deserve a negative comment rating, their post would need to be off topic. For example, if the discussion is about choosing a computer and someone replies about making pancakes, then that's COMPLETELY off topic and would deserve a negative. As long as the person stays within the general topic of the discussion I think that they wouldn't deserve a negative comment. Rating someone negative just because they don't agree with your opinion is obviously the wrong thing to do. People have opinions and it's not your view of something doesn't give you the right to vote their comment negative. Basically, if the comment is off topic or inappropriate, then it deserves a negative.

Hey, Laydee! This is a great question. I'm the same as you - I only rate someone negative (and I have not done this in AGES) when they don't respond according to the topic or are just very rude to others and are clearly just there to argue! I guess if you want to get into an argument, you could here on MyLot, but it's not worth it because you may offend someone...that's not cool! If someone doesn't agree with me, that doesn't mean they deserve to get rated negatively! That's not the point of the rating choice, in my opinion. If they are discussing well like they are supposed to, they don't deserve a negative rating. Happy MyLotting, my friend!

I've never rated anyone negative but I think the circumstances that would lead to that would be if someone's response was totally unrelated to the discussion, or if they are abusive toward the person who started the discussion or to someone else responding.

I never rate negative to any person.. because i don't like to hurt anybody.. by giving negative rating.. when i think.. this discussions or response.. is not good then i leave them as well as without giving rating.. i know their is no any effect on persons rating.. only by me giving negative rating to them.. but if every person give negative rating them.. then it's affected their rating.. so i know the value of every rating .. have a nice day and keep mylotting always..

The least that a person could do, if he/she does not agree with your idea is to rate you negatively. Those kind of person they, are no open minded to any possible things might arise to the discussion. About me, I am open minded so every time I post a discussion I am ready for new ideas and new opinions other than what I have. If I feel that his/her idea is not good for me. I still gonna respect him/her and thank for his/her idea. But never would I rate him/her negative because his/her idea is opposing to my idea. Just like you, I would only rate it negative if the post or comments is really rude and harsh to our human emotions and feelings. I guess we already know what are those words that we could feel we are insulted.

I would never rate someone negative just because I disagreed with them, its a discussion, you will always get people who disagree with you, yes it would be nice if everyone agreed with everyone else but it would also be boring, and there wouldnt be any point in having a discussion then, and not only that it tells you in the guidelines not to do it for that reason, so I dont! The only reason I would rate negative is if the post was abusive, I havent had to rate anyone negative yet thankfully as havent seen anyone abusive here yet thankfully! And I hope it stays that way!

for me i just say my point of view if i say negative things it's just that i say what i think for the certain topic