Do you think emoticons affect ratings?

Well is better than =) and is better than lol. So maybe it is, depends on the person reading. And I am sending you this , so you might rate me postive! hehehe (too bad they only let 3 emoticons per post!)

Hello 4ever famous, I believe the emoticons purpose is to allow us to express ourselves more specific. so that the users would know the emotion that you're feeling when making that response,comments or discussion. but from my experience emoticons can also help you earn a bit more when you use them i believe the only thing that affects your ratings is the star, when you're rated negative most often.

i think it doesn't matter if your response or comment has emoticons or not.it's just there to let others know what kind of emotion we want others to see from us and it helps make the discussion more livelier when emoticons are there. it doesn't affect ratings at all cause the quality is still what matters the most. but nowadays i can't see those emoticons and reputation stars. have you seen them?

Hi, I'm not sure whether it affects the rating, but personally I like to use emoticons a lot because it livens up the response and accurately transmits our moods to the reader. It is a helpful tool in written communications. I guess to some extent it has some effect because when the message is better put across, you are more likely to attract positive ratings because of that.

I have no idea if they help your ratings, which then will help your earnings. But now I want to know how to use them and I have no idea. So just in case they would help me, can you tell me how to use them?

i don't think it can affect the rating because for me, whats more important is the thought the responder wants to convey to you, the essence and the content of its text, not the emoticons,,, don't get me wrong, but for me, as long as you have sense and the text you send conveys emotions themselves, there's no need for emoticons,,, good day!

it can

Hmmm I never knew that, I think what affects most is the number of post you had, but surely, emoticons help in a way or another, but using them help conveys your thoughts , but hey, it would of course be a plus if it really helps, thanks to you. I would be using them now, every now and then.

Emoticon is they way to express your feeling using picture. Picture may figure your feeling and give many interpretation for everyone who see it. Word have limitation but picture beyond imagination. Small picture could figure out wide imagination which couldn't figure out by a sentence. I think emoticons doesn't effect our ratting directly. However, if you use emoticon appropriately, other member may like your post and then rate you up so your ratting will be increase. Emoticons are just additional feature from mylot to let you make your post more funny so the discussions will be enjoyable.

Personally I use emoticons to correlate with my posted response. If ever I give , it is simply so that the member understands that I am too agree fully as we are not suppose to simply say I agree, as per the guidelines. But when I do use it goes right alongside with my comment. I especially like to give , as if the person was in front of me I would want to hug them as a sign of comfort especially if it is a sad discussion. As to whether it helps our ratings I truly do not think so, as one question that always comes to mind is when a member started a discussion and then I give this lengthy response, I then get in as a response something like , so I have no idea why this member thinks that placing simply an emoticon will count towards rating, earnings or relevance to the discussion. But I suppose that is a whole other discussion.

yes,emotions are affecting the people.because every person have some problem they declaming with other person.so we should avoid these kind of activities.it should be ratings in our life.so emotion should avoid every human beings.every one should blame with others.so we take care our part.

i dont think so, emoticons are ways to show feelings on what you typed.. :P

I sincerely hope the contents (I mean the substance of the matter) scores more than such add-ons like emitcons and pictures. I feel any thread should help to find answers than pose more questions