How do you rate responses, if at all?

If I start the discussion I have a tendency to rate it. I will not rate someone's response as negative unless it is really bad or insulting in some way. I do not know if the ratings leads to less pay or anything of that nature but I try to stay positive with the ratings. If I feel that a response is negative, normally I will reply to it but not rate it. ( I hope that makes sense!) Also, if I start a thread I try to respond to each response I get. I also pick a best response as well. I feel that anyone who took the time to respond to my thread deserves a response as well!

I think ratings will help people who contribute to discussions better write and organize their speech here. It will give them assurance to whether their input was excellent, or mediocre. Theres a big learning curve for poor writers, and this feature will help them reach higher writing standards.

If I like any discussion, not just because it is in my favour or something like that, but if I feel that there are some strong points in the discussion which are making the discussion interesting one then I invariably rate that discussion as a positive one! I want to recognise the efforts of the person who has taken so much of time and used his brain and hands to come up with such a nice discussion. I never rate any discussion negative unless it is really making the forum messy or the user is using some abusive language. For the discussions which I feel it's Ok,I Just leave them without rating hem any thing. For my initiated discussions, i not only rate them but I sincerely reciprocate each one of them and thank them for their participation and after few weeks I select one of the discussion which I feel is great for me to give it a 'Best Response' status.This I feel makes one happy and his/her Morales go up and encourage one to participate with more motivation and we can expect some quality responses also in future! Thanks for the topic, I liked participating in it!

I have never rated anything as negative, even if I dont agree with something that someone has said I will respect their opinion on the matter. I will only ever rate someone negative if I feel that they are abusive, and I havent seen any like that yet. If I dont believe that a person's post has anything to do with the discussion and that they are just posting to increase earnings, then I just wont bother rating. So nearly every post I read gets a positive rating from me.

I have rated a post just one or two times untill now, so you may have an idea that i don't rate posts. Actually i don't think it is necessary. I don't use the rating system at all. But i think it affects our reputation in mylot. A + gives you some better ranking and - takes your ranking a few positions back. But i really don't know what the truth is. Happy mylotting. Regards, harry, :-)

I rate all the responses i get in my started discussion positive or not. I think there's no right or wrong answers,only relevant or irrelevant responses. Just the same, i appreciate all responses.

hi christinelle no it does not help or hinder the earnings but just is a nice way of saying I appreciate what your wrote, and darn it does not take that long to pick out a best response. One thing a lot of new ones are not heeding mylot advice to wait a week to give out best response. they do it in an hour or two which leads me to believe noone else has a chance as they picked a friend to give the br to whihc sort of negates the idea of allowing all your fri ends to get to answer your discussion before you give a best response. we are not suppose to play favorites, this behavoir belongs back in grade school instead. wait a week to be fair do not play favorites here,its not grade school.

I rate all the responses made from my started discussions. I am not really choosy with answer for i believe each of us have our own opinion. I do rate discussions as well that i respond to if i really like the topic and reading responses from other discussions that i believe have really good responses.

I rate comments if they have sense. It doesn't always have to be a positive response. I also rate negative ones that has sense. But if it is far-fetched or senseless, it's either I ignore it or rate it negative.

Since the only choice you have is the negative, positive and the exclamation point, we can regard that as we agree and disagree. Rating them of course depends on how we take their responses. Because sometimes because we are being rebuked or contradicted with the response but that's the truth, we give them negative. That should not be the case. Rating must be open minded to the response, regardless it is for you or against your point of view to the post. Have a good day!