I must have angered someone!

@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

28 Jun 11

Wow that is a long time. Yeah sometimes I do not believe that people pay attention.

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Patsie Hatley

@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

28 Jun 11

lost my response copy paste. I once had a blue star but my discussion on smoking being hazardous to ones health angered two trolls who stayed up all night minusing everything I had ever posted. I went down to five.I contacted the admins and they caught the two men,. they did kick them out but only put my star up to an 8 so I worked hard and my friends must have helped because I soon moved up to a 9.now I seem stuck at 93 percent rating but I can live with that.I was happy with the way mylot admins handled that was so great. much appreciation to mylot.

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trolls are still here

@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

28 Jun 11

I always rate my commenters a + rating! Sometimes my finger even slips on + when they are being negative to me. But I like to be a civil person!

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

28 Jun 11

I was red years ago but I have never been blue. I got bashed down to silver and now, because I have such a high number, it takes years to get it back up again. If yours was balancing on 95 it would not have taken much to take it to 94 where it is now and it might go back up just as quickly. Here's hoping!

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LetranKnight25

@LetranKnight25 (33121)

• Philippines

28 Jun 11

There's is hope to her yet if she start more discussions that are not much controversial. I remember bashing a lot of pinoy lotters during the 2010 elections, from 97 i was hanging my star from 95/94. until i stop participating in politics and move on withmy life. i think more people still neg rates simply because they don't agree, and that is still wrong.

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

28 Jun 11

I don't go to politics or religion (maybe 3 times in 4 years) but that makes no difference. There are haters and jealous folks on here too

I agree that many neg rate simply because the response is not what they want to hear. Tough for them but they should NOT abuse by neg rating

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@purplealabaster (22091)

• United States

28 Jun 11

If you hold your breath for long enough, MysD, then you will turn blue really quickly and will not have to wait several years to do so ...

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SomeCowgirl

@SomeCowgirl (32191)

• United States

28 Jun 11

I guess you were not active a few years ago when people were getting negged all over the place. There are some here who will neg you if you offended them even in the slightest of ways so don't take it personally. If you do find out who it is, maybe you can find out why, but I imagine it was more then one person for it to go down a whole star.

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

28 Jun 11

Some still carry the scars

Good to see you busy again!

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

28 Jun 11

Amanda place your cursor over the star and you will see yours as 94/100.

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

28 Jun 11

How are you guys finding the numbers for the star ratings?

Like the ?/100 I am not sure where to see where I am. I want to know how much I have to work my butt off to get my rating back up!

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@purplealabaster (22091)

• United States

28 Jun 11

It happens. It has happened to me more than once. At first I was upset about it, but my friends gave me some really good advice that I listened to ... don't worry about it and keep on doing what you are doing, especially if you are not being rude and obnoxious to people.

We cannot control what other people do, and if we have fun on here and do not worry about it, then that is the best thing. If we start stressing about the little things, then this place will not be fun, and we will eventually not want to come here, and that is not good.

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

28 Jun 11

I fear that they stick but I have no idea. We need GAa to clarify this.

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

28 Jun 11

ummmm I think they stick or maybe mylot gave me a lower rating because of the GV along with their pet?

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@purplealabaster (22091)

• United States

29 Jun 11

Sooner - I did not see that discussion, so I can't really comment about that. I have wondered the same thing myself many times about ratings on discussions/comments that are deleted. In fact, in a discussion where you and I were going back and forth about the use of negative ratings, I asked the exact same question. My point was that if something is bad enough to be negatively rated, then it most likely will get deleted anyway, so it is just best to report and move on rather than wasting time on negative ratings. If they do stick, though, then your point about the negative ratings is valid. MysD - I think that a clarification from an official source on this issue would be good as well.

Amanda - I haven't really interacted with you, but I have read some of the things that you have said on this discussion. I think that calling people "administrative pets" most likely is offensive to some, although I am not sure that "myLot police" is any better. You are free to use these terms, but if you get negatively rated for using them, then that really is on you, isn't it? I have argued that I don't negatively rate as I believe that anything worth negatively rating is worth reporting. Sooner argued with me that this is an abuse of the rating system, because anything that detracts from myLot or negatively affects myLot should be rated negatively. Since we are asked to report things that are GVs, then labeling people that you think do this as "pets" or "police" could be seen as negatively affecting myLot, don't you think?

Of course, I could be wrong.

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jujunme

@jujunme (2501)

• United States

28 Jun 11

Yes it has happened to me and i wasn't too happy about it either.y rating was a 9 for the longest time when all of a sudden it dropped and i like you do not understand why and probably never will, I have come to know there are people here who will rate others negative for no apparent reason and even if you are respectful in your responses, but may disagree with the OP you risk getting a negative vote as well. As far as changing the mind of the person of people doing this, you would have no way of knowing who they are, or why they voted this way, since we aren't privy to to this information and that's one of the reasons i feel some people feel free to vote as they wish and to be honest, wish the rating system would include this information since i think it would decrease the number of people voting negative, if the person doing this was required as to explain why they voted the way they did.

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

28 Jun 11

When it comes to what is on my mind I will speak it 100%. When it comes to this my ratings are pushed behind in priority. I feel I would rather be real to myself and others than to be fake for a rating!

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

It is nice to see that someone agree's with me!

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jujunme

@jujunme (2501)

• United States

29 Jun 11

I agree

and even though i'm not happy with the drop in my rating, it doesn't come to mind when i post or respond to a discussion.Being false with ourselves is a lot worse than having a high rating.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (160883)

• United States

29 Jun 11

It could also be that people are just failing to rate you at all. When the stars were introduced I came on as a ten, a few months later I became a 9. It took me two years to get back to a ten. Just be yourself. It should not be possible for one person to ruin your ratings. It is easier to change your rating the fewer posts you have, for you to raise your star two points (from 94 to 96%) you would have to get eighteen plusses on your profile extra, that is not so much. It would have taken eighteen negatives or failure to rate to lower you those same two points. You may have been slipping for a little while. I would not worry about it though. Just be yourself and have some fun here.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (160883)

• United States

29 Jun 11

Oh, I am not sure either, and I cannot prove this, as my red star experience came in the bad old days when your negative ability was not limited.I started at 99, though.Dropped to 82. At that time there were also on site moderators. One was my friend, but we did not know he was a mod til he quit.That is where I got the percentage information. I am saying that the extra plusses need to be in addition to what you would normally get. I have seen it happen when I have befriended someone who was a three, with a rating under 100 that I could go through and plus and they were a four or five by the next day. I still feel that failure to rate people also brings their percentage down, and that could well be where the weighting of the situation is. The plus has to make up both for the minus and for no ratings at all.

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

I actually just started attending mylot again. I was gone for 2 years only popping in once in a while. So maybe you are right. a negative here and there and then a couple lately could have put me down some.

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@purplealabaster (22091)

• United States

29 Jun 11

I do not believe that you are right here, GG, although I definitely do not know for sure. Still, I believe that negative ratings count (or are weighted) far more than positive ratings, so a few negative ratings would affect our reputation and it would take A LOT more positive ratings to get back up to our previous position. There are quite a few others that believe the same as I do, because we have experienced a sudden drop in our ratings overnight and it took weeks, months and sometimes years ... and some of us are not back to where we started even today.

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LetranKnight25

@LetranKnight25 (33121)

• Philippines

28 Jun 11

Hello Amanda, that is the negative side of the rating system. before one person can really damage you're rating because the rating was unlimited per discussion(e.g. hatley / mysdianait).but with the aide of a veteran who were once here, he made the admin change their minds and have the rating system limited to 15. and mylotters can only rate once they have achieve 100+ post but i've been more concerned as to how some one can damage the reputation so high that it has affected the number of you're post even if it's 880+. one speculation that's been in my mind perhaps is that the negative rater has one or more mylot accounts and also having more than 100+ each.

The solution is to have mylot with a registered IP address of each members, but that will sacrifice the "affiliated option" in the preference section clearing the message that mylot should have one account=one user only..

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

28 Jun 11

Amanda I have seen you mention the "administrative pet" before

Not everything that gets deleted was reported. GAA has eyes of his own. Not everything that gets reported is deleted either.

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

Sooner nation: wouldn't the police be more like the administrative or do we call them the chief? Mysd: oh I am sure they reported me as well though and negatively rated me. Remember gv gets automatic negative ratings from some people

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

28 Jun 11

Yeah they might have. I also had someone say that there ratings were dropping when there discussions were being deleted. I had a discussion deleted yesterday so maybe mylot did it along with the administrative pet that reported my discussion!

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Go Ask Alice / Admin

@GoAskAlice (5827)

•

29 Jun 11

Amanda, I have just sent a friend request. Please accept it and I'll see about looking in to this. If there is something fishy with it, we have means to find out the how and why.

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

29 Jun 11

Umph!

Can you look into episodes which occurred 2 years ago too? Everyone knows what happened to me at the time but there was no admin around then

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

29 Jun 11

So I will just bear the scars for a bit longer then

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Go Ask Alice / Admin

@GoAskAlice (5827)

•

29 Jun 11

Months ago I can do, years, not so much :/

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rebel_woman06

@SIMPLYD (90721)

• Philippines

29 Jun 11

When i was in my 9 star rating, i noticed that it would dip down to 8 and then up again and then dip again. But i didn't much mind it, lest it will discourage me from posting. So, what i did, was just to post and post but of quality one. I avoided responding to topics that i think will get deleted. That being so, i went up to 10. I guess, people have different opinions. Others may like what you post but others may not. Just carry on, and post nicely.

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

Thanks for this advice. I will eventually have to move on and continue my great job here at my lot. No matter how bad my ratings my earnings are good so that is a plus for me.

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thatgirl13

@thatgirl13 (7294)

• South Korea

29 Jun 11

Yes this has happened to me too but I don't know who I have offended or why did that person rate me negatively

but the good thing is I am back to my position again. Like you, I don't remember being rude or anything to anyone, I'm clueless about why I was negatively rated.

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

Well some people seem to think that people will rate negative when they are bored.

I do not think that they realize that some times it can hurt a persons feelings!

I think that if they are not going to be fair in their ratings that they should not rate at all!

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

Thank You I like it when people agree with me

People can be mean because it is not happening to them so they do not know how it feels. Or it could be the other way around. They have it happening to them so they want others to pay!

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thatgirl13

@thatgirl13 (7294)

• South Korea

29 Jun 11

Wow that is so mean, rating someone negative just coz they're bored

And yeah the thing you said is true, if they're not going to be fair, they shouldn't rate at all!!

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Sanjeev

@sjvg1976 (41289)

• Delhi, India

29 Jun 11

Oh Amanda it really hurts when your reputation slips but nothing we can do much about it as this is not in our hands but yes what is in our hand is to post quality responses to the discussion.

I don't think it will take much from you because right now you are on 94/100 and you need 95/100 to get blue star again all you need to post good quality reponses & leave it on other users. I know how it hurts because mine also slipped from "7" to "4" & then again climbed to "8".

Don't leave hope you will definitely get it again.

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

I did not realize that I was only 1 point away.

Yes I will just continue to be me and work my way through the kinks!

I have been posting a lot lately and with quality so we will see what the month ahead has to bring us!

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

I am not sure because now all of a sudden there are some different opinions and some controversy.

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@purplealabaster (22091)

• United States

29 Jun 11

Well, I have participated a lot on here the same as you have, Amanda. I can assure you that I have not hit the "negative" button nor the "!" button once. You have also stated that you only rate positively, so I believe that the reputation of everyone participating in this discussion should at least remain intact and most likely yours will increase. Mine will not as it would take a lot more to increase mine than yours, but mine should not decrease, either.

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rdmcollamat

@rdmcollamat (176)

• Philippines

28 Jun 11

As I'm a newbie, I never knew that you can never get back to rank 10 when you got negged by somebody. That's too bad though, hope you find out why he/she ranked you negatively. :/

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

28 Jun 11

I have been a 9 before and went back to a 10. It was just sooo long ago I can not remember what I did to get a higher rating!

jack9825

@jack9825 (60)

• India

29 Jun 11

Hi Amanda, I hope you get your 10 back. I am new here, So I was just wondering.. If I don't like comment of a person.. should I negate it ? Because that's purpose of the conversation.. If someone is commenting the wrong matter that should be rated down right ?

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

If someone is being rude then I negative them. But other than that I positive. If I do not like there comments I see if it is an opinion and I can see if I understand their point of view. Then I still positive them because it is what they think even though it is not the same as my views!

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@purplealabaster (22091)

• United States

29 Jun 11

How to use the Discussion Rating System (DRS) is covered in the FAQs here http://www.mylot.com/o/faq/faq17.aspx#2 It clearly states that you should not rate a person negatively just because you do not agree with what they are saying. Amanda is absolutely right ... if you do not agree but the other person has made a good point, then you should positively rate that person.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (160883)

• United States

29 Jun 11

I am much more likely to report abuse than to rate negatively. I would say maybe one in a thousand I have rated negatively, and many of those have been when I have detected one user using two accounts and I have both rated neg and reported the abuse. I have reported people for isolated instances of rudeness, when it did not turn into a flame war but it was just tacky. Like someone telling me that I was dumb and should stay out of discussions I knew nothing about. (it happens, and maybe I am dumb. I just do not believe that all residents of any one nation are scammers, even Nigeria.)

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danishcanadian

@danishcanadian (28955)

• Canada

28 Jun 11

Hasnt happened to me, and I don't understand why it's happening to you. Hope you get back to 10 soon. Here's a + to help.

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

28 Jun 11

Thanks. I know I will get there. Even if it takes time. I do not believe that I offend many people unless they say something plain out stupid!

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blue65packer

@blue65packer (11826)

• United States

29 Jun 11

I don't worry about my star or ratings. That is a waste of time. There is more to worry about in life then those things! I know I have ticked people off and vice versa. I only will pissed people off if they post a discussion with all the facts are all wrong on a topic I really know! If I am called a guy,swore at or treated rudely then I get nasty! I have been here a few years now. I have put up with alot of good and ugly stuff. So have fun here and stop worring about the little things!

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

Thanks blue65packer I shall try and take your advice

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ebuscat

@ebuscat (5935)

• Philippines

29 Jun 11

For me don't use to someone the points you would made it is because of you what your doing.

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

I can see this is working for you

A 5 you better hope they do not have a 0

but yes I see what you are saying. So for that I will continue to do what I do best and post post discussion discussion...

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uchelink

@uchelink (200)

• Nigeria

28 Jun 11

well am a newbie here i have not gotten any rank yet. I never know what it takes for someone to be ranked , i hope to be ranked someday. Don't worry ok you will get back to normal rank.

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@mysdianait (66009)

• Italy

28 Jun 11

You will have yours when you see uchelink(100) You can read about what it means here: http://www.mylot.com/o/faq/faq11.aspx

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

28 Jun 11

Yeah you have to reach 100 post then you get the little incentive of having a rank. I am thankful I have never gotten under a 8 but hey there is always time for a first!

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@Amanda81587 (3042)

• United States

29 Jun 11

When did it change? When earnings changed or just out of nowhere?

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Sebastian Onciu

@polaris77 (2039)

• Bacau, Romania

28 Jun 11

I haven't noticed my rating falling until now and,like you, I would definitely not give negative rating to anyone unless it had a rude behavior.I don't understand why some people do that without a good reason;I guess their souls are full of envy and foolish pride and if somebody tells them something they don't like,they do such things as a form of revenge.Anyway,shame on those who do such rude things.

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