Something Is Wrong In Mylot Land

I hope too that soon myLot will put an end to this once and for all. It is exasperating and distracts from what myLot should be about - fun! Thank you and thank you for the friend request

Happy Lotting jujunme

Couldn't agree with you more since it's gone way beyond just ignoring it.As for the friend requst your very welcome.

"have not you find some members posting high quality content and ask yourself why are not they in blue(star)?" Yes,i have and in cases like this i feel it's pure jealousy and spite. Why would anyone want to rate a high qualty discussion negatively? besides being jealous of the amount of responses it receives and the high ratng someone may of had. how sad that people like this are allowed to judge the quality of "any" discussion, since all they know how to do is rate it negatively for their own unjust purposes.

Sad indeed but myLot is a slice of life so those people will be here too

Yes, i agree with you,but unlike here, in real life, you know "who" they are.

Hi Hatley.Yes my rating dropped 2 points overnight, but what i still don't understand is, why any flucuation at all?, especially since my rating hasn't changed much at all till now. Wouldn't it still mean i was rated negatively by anyone trying to be spiteful? Maybe i'm a little too sensitive, but i take that personally and feel it's someone who reads my discussions often and for whatever reason, (i try to post quality discussions and am not rude or insulting to anyone)they may have for rating me negatively,it irks me no end, since "anyone" starting or responding to a discussion is somehow under the control of "trolls"

I don't understand it either. Though i would say it's a mixture of things, some members say it's for no other reason then disagreeing with your opinion, some say it's spite or jealousy (you have a higher rating then they do)and they don't like it.and in my opinion i agree with all of it.since these are the trolls and i also agree, they just "like doing it" and could care less about our rating or earnings.Anyway,cheers to you as well and a '+' to go along with it.

Jununme, you were red when i last responded to you. I will give you '+' when ever i find you in discussions. So much for some people, they just like negging others for no reasonable cause.

Yes, i know it was "red" when i "started" this discussion, can you believe it? I have no other choice than to believe i'm being negged for no reason i guess the "troll" didn't like this discussion either, but, as you mentioned "so much for them".Anyway thanks so much for saying you will '+' my discussions, i really apprecaite this and i will do the same for you. Afterall we can do the same thing with the rating icon, only in the right way and for the right reasons.

I read that you can't neg always the same member and that it affects your rating. Think that you are in blue and that your trolls have a 2 or a 3 now !

LOL topffer, I often think that when I see some drop really low, my first thought is well lay off the neg button and maybe you would not be affected. Right you are about the neg button rule as it is in the guidelines that over abuse will definitely decrease the members own star.

Oh and plus for you as this important to mention to anyone that experiences drops so they are aware that it is not a personal thing but at times members go out their way to drop a members ratings.

wow!!!!!! you are 9 again..I'm sooo happy to see that..good luck friend so that this time you go up and stay there forever...lol...waiting to see you at 10.....cheers.. have a big smile on your face...c'mon!..you slapped their faces whoever done this...

Thank you so much friend.i really appreciate your kind words you and others are what makes coming here so rewarding.Yes, i am happy about my rating, i guess the good guys won this time, lol Take care and thanks again.

Thank you so much for your kind words i really appreciate it and i'm glad to know your rating has gone up.keep up the good work. for me, actually this was the first time my rating dropped since it was a 9 for the longest time,so , i have no idea why the sudden drop, since i feel my discussions do get good responses and no one has replied to any of them in a negative way, plus, i try my best not to be rude or insulting to anyone and will treat them with respect.but, if you read my reply to you right above this one, it just may explain why i feel certain people do what they do and the sad part is, there's really little we can do about it.

why someone will intentionally rate negative on someones post! I actually don't get it. What's the point of doing so? wait...may be they don't get good ratings and see all others rating going up day by day. that makes them jealous..but I had a feeling that people come here to share thoughts, to share good things....at least I'm here to know new things from you, obviously that is not in negative sense..knowing something good..that I didn't know...I believe I myself only can get a tiny portion of knowledge but our combine knowledge is way better than personal knowledge. No one can be good in all aspects but when we share our knowledge, we get to know each other and have their knowledge too....I feel awesome and honored when I get a acknowledgment for my discussion/comments. It's like an achievement to me. But it doesn't mean I hate criticism. I like criticism, it encourages me to improve myself. Even when I don't get any criticism I feel like people are not reading my writings, it's just been overlooked...I feel sad. Not only here, in every stage of my life. All people have their own perspective of thinking, it may not match with mine but it'll never lead me rate it negative when it has logic behind it...has a good fact of thinking..at least it will help me to think a while about the matter and my brain will workout well...may be I think too positively...

Most of us who come here do so for the right reasons,share our thoughts, help others, make friends and hopefully learn a lot as well.but, just as in real life there will always be those, who for reasons of their own go out of their way to make it bad for everyone else and that's what i think happens here as well. Call it jealousy,spitefulness or just people who disagree with whatever you have to say, and don't know how to respond respectfully, so they take the easy way out by rating someone negatively. But, we can't let them stop us from doing what we love to do and what the purpose of Mylot is supposed to be about.i may be upset by someone negative rating me, but i won't let that stop me from coming here.i have made quite a few really wonderful friends here and that's whatmakes coming here so worthwhile.

"Intentional negging" of some people is what bothers me the most.it's just crazy.i don't know what they hope to gain by doing this and if the rating system didn't effect peoples earnings idon't think many others would care either, they could neg all day long till their fingers fell off.but it does affect ones earnings and i've seen some members ratings drop a whole lot and that just isn't fair. BTW no apology necessary, since your comment wasn't a "rant" at all and even if it was i could well understand why

in the first place, the admin has "nothing" to do with your star rating.it is the members here who rate your discussions positive or negative and therefore your rating can change at any given time. and as far as "abusing Mylot", i certainly have not done this in any way and have read and know the terms and guidelines here quite well. Maybe if you had read my discussion, your response might have been different since what you commented on here, has nothing to do with what my discussion was about.

the higher your rating the better you get paid

i'm with you. i don't understand it myself.Even though i'm very aware of how mean and spiteful people can be here,these people seem to have nothing better to do than hurt someone else for their own selfish reasons.They don't enjoy the things those of us who come here enjoy, (making friends, learnng about people,getting great advice)they only come here to either be rude or rate someone negatively for no reason.I hope they're proud of themselves since in my opinion they are uhappy individuals who are going nowhere.

Mine only changed one other time besides this one where it dropped 2 points overnight.Other than that, like yours it's been the same since i've been here.As far as whetehr i'm being rated a lot or not, i just don't know and don't want to drive myself crazy trying to figure this whole thing out.

Just "misunderstanding" someones discussion in my opinion is no reason for voting the discussion negatively,it really bothers me that people will use any excuse to rate that way.although i'm glad you say doesn't bother you.i think the only way it will really bother me is if my earnings drop since they do depend on your rating. but so far so good.

my rating stayed pretty much the same as well until last night when it dropped 2 points and i do agree with you that we may never know all the reasons people feel the need to rate others negatively, but jealously certainly can be oe of the reasons and if this is true, they need to be elsewhere. since theres no room for spite and jealousy here.