nEgAtIvE Raters are Time Wasters :-(
@LetranKnight25 (33121)
Philippines
January 13, 2011 6:43am CST
Hello Lotters,
No, I am not pertaining to those people use the "negative rating" in General.However, I am talking about those Mylotters whos only purpose is to rate the user negative all the time. remember these people are multiple account holders and probably the most popular hidden syndicate now scourging around the mylot sewers
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How can I say such thing? because these people never faced their so called adversaries that they feel intimidated to.. others still believed that they neg rate just because they don't agree, which we still know to date, that it's still wrong
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I pity them Really, they are wasting their time pulling a person down where they should spent it in something productive like the rest of us.
If Mylot isn't popular as facebook, or twitter, as for me, i guess it's better this way. we can't afford to risk another bunch of trolls or neg raters in our good community.
What do you think about it? I do think the negative rating is still a bit complicated to me. that's why I never use it.
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@Gameslayer007 (862)
• United States
13 Jan 11
You have a nice day as well!
I can't stand these cowards. I wonder if they follow me around so my star will stay pink forever.
Hopefully they will be caught and banned!
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@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
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@housechaos7 (609)
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13 Jan 11
I agree with you totally on this,I am quite new to this also I been a member on Mylot for 4 years and I can see what you are saying but unfortunatly It is a ongoing Issue thst Is hard to resolve.
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
13 Jan 11
Plus, correct me if I am wrong, but if someone rates another negative, doesn't it also affect their own rating? I think this might be why though I don't have a real low rating, I will rate someone negative if they are negative. (Hence the negative rate) Either that or someone rates me negative and the only one I can picture doing that is this city boy, but I won't go there..lol
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
13 Jan 11
True gameslayer, but when you get someone either posting spam or being downright rude, that is uncalled for.
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@Gameslayer007 (862)
• United States
13 Jan 11
I only give out +'s!
There are enough people giving out -'s, so it's a plus or nothing at all.
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@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
Hello Carmel
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That's one thing that Is very
complicated on the negative rating part most specially if you search and try to understand it deeply. Sometimes I can understand that giving negative rating only when the atmosphere of the discussion isn't good and not because you didn't agree with it. But I guess people just didn't care as long as they are not busted even it ruin theirs. Some people don't care about it at all. Have a nice day![](/Content/images/emotes/thumbup.gif)
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@eLsMarie (4346)
• Philippines
13 Jan 11
Honestly, I don't care about them because I don't know what's the effect if I'll rate a post of somebody. There were instances when I rate a negative - usually when I'm getting pissed with the person who can't respect others' point-of-view. Now I'm wondering. What would be the effect?
I'm asking because I can honestly say that I have no idea.
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@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
13 Jan 11
Hello
ElseMarie,
Yeah,
that's what I think too but this time I need to have a say for once In this life time. That's right by taking an attention of these losers, they feed more on this and make their presence even larger. But you know, we should let these people be. Of course, it's something that I need to make aware once. Well, it will affect on you as well if you rate others negative.
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@jujunme (2501)
• United States
13 Jan 11
Negative ratings can affect your star rating (that little number inside your star) which in turn affects your earnings.The lower the number, the less you will earn. That's the reason you will see so many discussions stating that the (-) should only be used if someone is being abusive or disrespectful.it seems others are using it out of spite or if they just don't like the discussion topic, which is wrong no matter how you look at it.
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@eLsMarie (4346)
• Philippines
16 Jan 11
jujunme: I never knew that it has an effect with our mylot earnings.
Last time, I had a debate with a woman and she was like being so personal about her words because I tend to give her my opinion and she does not like it so I think she rated my post negative.
Letran: Oh God! I have to be familiarize with everything here in mylot. The problems is, I'm not so into reading so many serious posts.![](/Content/images/emotes/sad.gif)
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@topffer (42156)
• France
13 Jan 11
I put a - when a user is flaming or completely out of topic, and I have some months without a negative rating. As I report also the box or the discussion, I will not lodge a complaint if the rating system disappears tomorrow. The DRS has many bad effects and some are not seen immediately : when you inform kindly a newcomer that his/her discussion violates the guidelines and you don't report it, you lose your cent when the discussion is deleted, and maybe another cent when the global adjustment is made, so many old members don't stop anymore in these discussions... I am kind but not at the point to pity like you do the negative raters
. It is often a troll's game, and there is two way to get rid of the trolls here : to suppress the negative box or to make the system transparent. I would enjoy a clear and transparent history of tags at myLot, wikipedia-like, but it would probably not be a good thing to make the rating system transparent because it would create enmities and nervous tension here. So let's suppress the star rating, nobody will regret it. What I am lacking now is a smiley with a pike and a phrygian cap
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@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
Hello
Topffer,
Well, more like a cowards troll game since they won't speak to have you drag into a fight or something, because they know they will be out matched by tons of decent mylotters here. I don't know what would the admin do to make this work better but I think some ways, it can be complicated as this site experience some glitch when it was updated or upgraded with something a bit NEW.
I think just remove the negative rating will do to avoid more abuse.
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@gracielle (346)
• Philippines
13 Jan 11
Yeah, you're right negative raters are time wasters, & you're right about myLot being a friendly site too.. Like any other networking sites, here in myLot's the only site that makes me cautious on what I'm saying on others. It makes me more responsible on what my words would be speaking & making me more friendlier than I used to be because they created guidelines & rules that is helpful & user friendly.
For others who does negative rating, I just wished that all their bad habits will be done back to them.. "karma"
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@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
13 Jan 11
hi letran I hate it that there are stilltrools who seem to only be
here to take down 9 and 10 stars. I know they can be caught but'yhou have to contact my lot admins and hit other so uou can explain how your rating suddenly dropped big time then they put a watch on to see who is doing all gthe minusing and they will catch them and those trolls will be banned from here. I do not minus anyone as if the disucssion is reallyh mean and insulting other users I just report it and let mylot admins decide what to do. I rarely do this either.mostly I plus so we can all move up. a lot of people here are simp;ly not rating and they should be as it will help us all.
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@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
Hello
Hatley,
I think we need to know the specific user name so that we would be humiliated. I have catch a few but I know it's like stomping on a roach but then there are actually thousands of these users every where having multiple accounts. As for the admin, I just want the action get done and I can't care how long it takes. So far the situation isn't bad as I thought it would be. Have a nice day to you.![](/Content/images/emotes/thumbup.gif)
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@Anora_Eldorath (6028)
• United States
14 Jan 11
Letran-
I know that Mylot administration is working to keep this from occuring, but you're right it still does happen. I am not sure why these people still are here other than they still receive the attention they crave. Someone starts a thread like this one and the trolls come and gloat at their victory for upsetting yet more people. I know, I'm replying so what does that say?
We know that it is a Mylot violation to continue to rank another negatively without just cause. We know that there are "gangs" on Mylot who do nothing but troll and at times in a group negatively rank/rate others simply because they know that the numbers game will allow them to quickly decrease the rank of another.
We know that a low star means less monies earned (it is in the Mylot FAQ's).
We know that Mylot administration will quickly end that when they find out as they can trace the threads and find out who is doing the negative ranking and take care of them appropriately.
So, in the end we can only go to administration if we experience this troll behavior and move forward.
Namaste-Anora
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@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
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@voldrox (7191)
• India
14 Jan 11
Hello Letran,
Hiding behind multiple accounts, not really having an identity over here, or like you said, some actually might be more famous ones around here too.
I too don't use the negative ratings, just because i don't want to use it, on anyone. I only give pluses or nothing at all. It's a shame when they hide behind multiple accounts because they care about their ratings, maybe they don't have the guts to show themselves. I just hope there are fewer people who do such stuffs, coz this is really bad for mylot. Maybe they should track such people whose sole purpose is to rate a '-' to others. I believe mylot guys can actually quarantine such accounts who just log in and rate '-'. They should start working on it.
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@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
Hello my friend
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there are
people who do it and for what's happening to Lamby, I know NOW that some one or group of people are using multiple accounts to drag him down. I guess freedom in mylot isn't really the thing here anymore. I don't know if they can quarantine such accounts since they do only delete accounts that really violate the rules. So much for that, have a nice day to you voldrox
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@saphrina (31551)
• South Africa
13 Jan 11
Hi sweetie.
There are a lot of us who only pray and wish that those negative raters will come and face us.
Ninnies who didn't have toys when they were children.
Hopefully one day we will be so lucky as to really get to meet them.
TATA.
@rameshchow (4426)
• India
13 Jan 11
If we like the discussion, we can give them positive rating, upto that good for looking.
But some(few evil minded people) are rating negatively without any reason or with jealousy.
Many of my great friends of mylot are effected by these negative rating giving persons.
Really it is unforturnate.
WE all are good friends here, we have to try to improve the quality of the discussions, and gives a good result to mylot management.
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@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
13 Jan 11
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@rameshchow (4426)
• India
13 Jan 11
friends, i want to ask an interesting doubt(for me it is interesting doubt),
"actually as per mylot rules, there is no relation between ranking and earning(by participation), then why should we worried about our rank? why don't we concentrate on earnings only?"....
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@cadguy08 (1224)
• Canada
13 Jan 11
Well those people just put me down last time I supposed to be higher rating in this site but those are nothing to do with themself and rate mylotters negative, mylot should removed this rating and just rate it by seniority not by mylotters who are nothing to do on themself.
@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
13 Jan 11
Hello Cadguy
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Unfortunately,
the system can be more complex than any one just thinking of a suggestion. The last time mylot admin added an upgrade here, it caused a lot of glitches from the beginning that they were moments that the maintenance lasted for days or hours. Well, you must have pissed on some one that led to your loosing of the star.
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@dollar3235 (2062)
• India
14 Jan 11
Hi LateranKnight25,
We should be thankful that myLot is not popular like Facebook and Twitter. Those two are websites where you can only waste your time and nothing else. I had accounts on both of those websites, I deleted my accounts because those were just wasting my time.
Even if myLot becomes popular, the number of active members will not be that much like facebook and twitter because there are so many people around the world who like meaningless things rather than being patient and doing some meaningful work.
As far as negative raters are concerned, they should be banned, rating negative is not a bad thing but on what basis you are rating someone, that decides whether it is good or bad. As you have mentioned, there are people with multiple accounts and they tend to rate you negative, I 100% agree with you, I had this feeling a few months back and I was guessing a few people in my friend list might be doing that to me. Since I have deleted those people from my friend list, my rating seems to be stable. Let's hope mylot will take some action against this issue and these people can be banned in myLot. ![](/Content/images/emotes/angry.gif)
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@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
Hello
Dollar,
Yeah,
not just being promoted by media in general but also now prone to abuse and cause crimes of some sort. Crimes that lead from easily trusting victim to the criminal. I still have my twitter but I don't use them any more, it's useless more people are just sending off their links just to visit their site. Who cares about them anyways.it's either another word war which is unlikely to happen or just pray that the admin makes a permanent solution out of this.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
I really don't mind those negative raters , because i myself do not rate negatively. I would just simply ignore them if i think they are trying to put down opinions.
But i rate those i found to be the best response to my discussion though.
@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
Hello
Simplyd,
well, I wonder what would you feel if they do that “to you” because I have experienced this situation before. Just be aware of the discussions that you make in mylot,really some people just can't take it even though the discussion is not really serious. Unfortunately, some just took it too personal. But luckily, the seriousness of the discussion was a lot before and not recently. Have a nice day
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@rberon1985 (5359)
• Philippines
13 Jan 11
do not waste your time to those kind of members or to those kind of people.they will not be rich if they continuously to rate other members negatively.let us just focus on posting quality discussions.let us just continue participating to quality post in the site.we all know the word "karma" and i'm sure all of them will be out of the site.we should not worry about those people.they are non sense people.
@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
13 Jan 11
Hello Rberon
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Well,
I guess these things happen once in a while but am not chasing them or anything. I just wanted to point out that how ugly canit be when it comes neg rating a person in their contributed post. People here think for a reason and it's not easy to think of something unless they put their mind into it. Some how I didn't like having this experience or negative rating. Nonsense people will get what they deserve some day. Godbless.
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@buggles64 (2709)
• United States
14 Jan 11
I rate all discussions with a positive even if they have a different opinion than me. As for trolls? Who are they? I never give them a second thought, I like to mind my own business, as should others. I believe everyone has something positive to contribute. One...should not pull/bring other people down...EVER!!! Expect good things and you will get good things from these people, expect great things and you will gt great things...and just because I have that belief, no one should rate me negative...it's just my opinion, or my 2 cents!!
@rosekiss (30380)
• Eugene, Oregon
13 Jan 11
The thing with the rating system, is that it is abused all the time. It is to bad too, as it would be a better system if those users would stop rating others negative, just because they don't agree with them. I thought mylot is a community where we can express our opinions, and not be ridiculed for them, but there are those that will put us down because we don't agree with them, and you right, it is totally wrong. It does need to stop, but until the so called trolls are banned or controlled in here, then we will continue to have problems with them. It really makes it hard to have fun when that happens. It does sem that they might be tryi8ng to make others leave and not come back. In other words they are intimidating them to leave. I, for one, won't be forced to leave here as I enjoy myself in here and I hope to continue to have fun in spite of the bad apples in here who make it rough for everyone else. We all need to stock together, and put them in their place, and maybe someday, they will grow up and leave others alone. We can only hope anyway. Take care, and happy mylotting. ![](/Content/images/emotes/happy.gif)
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@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
14 Jan 11
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@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
13 Jan 11
It is a never ending lost cause. I have seen great contributors to myLot come and go because of tis issue. Shame that really diligent contributors get spooked this way.
You know me I have been affected one too many times. I am simply doing my thing and comfortable with my stay here. However, it is a bit petty to see the trolls in action. I sure they feel comfortable with what they do.
Jealousy and vindictive actions are such a negative impact on the community itself.
@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
13 Jan 11
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