Click Click that mouse and raise those stars up up up. wow.

hi petersum and ravi yes I am now just doing it sort of automatically and it becomes second nature to do it.I am hoping this jolts the newcomers to rate too as some people are just not doing it and it helps all of u s.

petersum: excellent point. Suddenly I remembered your avatar but not name today when I wanted to mention names - after my moving on to blue star. thanks for support of mylot members. I am happy to note that you are reviving the habit of rating. I have been doing it --as you say -- not on a regular intervals. Hereafter I must do it every day minimum 5 minutes.

It is so easy to just rate as soon as you read a discussion or response. It's like second nature to me now.

hi carm wrote a whole comment and it went bye bye so copy paste on clipboard when I first came I had a blue star almost immendiagelyu as I did an lot of posting b ut one discussion made two men so angy that they minused me all night , everything I had ever written and bro ught me down t o a five. I protested and mylot trapped two men who had spent 23 hours none stop minusing everything I had writtenr just because I had made a discussion about smoking being bad for your health. they were kicked out but my lot only put me up to a yellow eight and all my friends I guess plussed me up to a red nine and I now have 93 percent so another couple points and I will go to ble.lolbut for a long while I had quite rating so now I have started doing it and its become a great way to know what I have responded to without having to lockit u p. lol.

Hatley aunty: When did this incident take place? Nowadays one cannot rate another member more than specified number of times--I read it in a discussion. Oher members will confirm/detail about it.

Oh, Hatley, you made a discussion about smoking being bad? How did I miss that, or was it an old one? I also assume when you say admin "trapped" them it means their profile is also gone?? I sure hope so, we don't need their kind here.. PPE, leave to you to hold a revolution!!! You did good..

hi bunny bon oh I could been guilty of that as I often change my avatar earlyh in the mo rning here as some look so great to me then when I see it on my responses it does not look that great or it does not show up. mytwo black cats sure show up now. lol hi petersum oh lambie gets bored then he realizes he needs all of us. lol lol lol hi should be Ppe but got so used to lambie. lol

Some people like to change their avatar regularly. It does get confusing sometimes. But it's not as confusing as changing accounts every few weeks!

I completely agree Hatley you have brought this to apparently many peoples attentions, and that alone has done a great service to some.

ravisivan you are so right and if we all do this it will really bve great.

cynthiann: good madam. If we spend 5 minutes every day for this purpose, we are doing a service to the forum and its members.

the purple and lilac is very relaxing Hatley, and a very artistic sense.

hi cynthiann something is wiping out my typing as fast as I type it copy paste clipboard I wanted something new and I love Cats so voila two cats.well whatever was deleting my tying seems to have quit.this only happend on mylot.l

hi gifts and HWG yes I wanted some lilac and purple and I got some lol lol. lovely day here to day not as hot with a cool oceab breeze blowing in the wind and the sunshine all mice and golden its been so hot up til today;wwo.

you have it in a nutshell. we must not misuse the minus key only hit minus if the discussion is insu ting or flaming. you are not to minus someone just because they have a different opinion than you do. that is wrong. iN fact if I feel that discussion is really insulting instead of minus I go to report it and let mylot admins decide about it. yes I rate too as I go along then its much easier and faster too

hi gardengerty I also hope all of us do the same. I got tired at times when I had a ton of responses but then noticed that it took just seconds and realized this also showed that I really did' appreciate each response I got and since then its become a habit and I have covered the whole page before I realize I have finished rating on that page and can move on.I also notice those who really participate a lot here for sure.

hi stephcjh me either as I just see as someone who has done well and deserves the higher star. I also give out pluses and if one is insulting I just report them to the admins and let them decide.'I have found it only takes seconds to rate and it tells my friends too that I appreciated their responses too l

hi kimber oh he he you know I was going to go farmville then decided no as I would get sucked in and not have time to mylot so I stayed away. its easy to get addicted to some games on he computer. I am now just rating as a matter of course as its become a habit 'with me and I know it will eventually help all of us too.

Nice to hear from you Ms. Hatley! You have so many friends here, I am amazed that you remember any of the likes of me! My dear friend that lived in the Costa Mesa area (which I think is Orange County) passed...but I do have a very special love for that area! (I was the one that was flabbergasted by the opulence of Balboa Bay Yacht Club...did NOT realize there were that many diamonds and blondes in the world.)LOL!! Actually, the first time I was in Costa Mesa, my friends to me to a Lounge called the El Pescador, and I had smoked Marlin for the first time in my life...and it was very good! Now, I have a task at hand....we need to get you back up to a 10, so I will go back and rate your comments in this discussion---as each day I run out of limits on you...LOL! I really DO hope, too...that other's take heed of this discussion! We are now experiencing "wildfires" in B.C.--like your area with the Santa Ana winds, we have had a wet...but windy summer, and all the flora and fauna is tinder dry---and dang, all our fires seem to be started by stupid humans! Hope your day is spectacular! Cheers!

oh how dreadful as thats som eof the most beautiful of lands up there. stupid people who love to see flames, do not they care that the fires b urn down homes and harm wild life.those fires also generate their own winds which makes the fires spread even faster. 'when I w as 23 I was on vacation in British Columbia save Banff and was at a large lake there,oh Lake Louise. gorgeousl we saw some glaciers and all sorts of Moose and oh the mosquito they were huge lol I petted a wild wolf thinking it was a German Shepard that belonged to the motel owners. they were really amused when I told them about petting their dog which they said they did not have. seems this wolf came down each day to forage from their garbage bins. He really did not mind me petting him even though he sort of grumbled in his throat. and thinking he was a dog I shared my sandwich with him, He seemed tol think well of me then. lol. His fur wad greyer and coarser thatn most dogs and oh my he was a beautiful specimen of male wolf. not at all afraid of me. lol.

hi pergammmano yep I have been here about as long but was out for 11 months. anyway I am fine and we have not had any storms in my vicinity . in Los Angles there is already a will fire bu rning o utr of con trol in the hills and here with all the rain we got earlier I had thought no we wont have those awful wild fires. I am not in Los Angeles co but in Orange co unty. any wayI do hope others will read this and see how you do and follow suit in rating as it helps us to get higher reps and earn more money too.

hi 3 snugglebunnies yes we really should do it as I found it just takes me seconds then it becomes second nature to do that..I] have wished we did not have the minus and just have plus and report insults and bad stuff. If its that bad we minus it whynot just report it and let admins decide. that is the way I look at it.

hi paula and pointlessQuestions that is it in a nut shell . now it just does not take that long to rate as my internet is much faster. I have found that I surprised myself in that I had already rated all the pages and was ready to go on to something else. also it is a way to remind myself that I have already responded to this particular discussion.

It's a habit for me also. I think it is important to give everyone we comment to a rating. I think some people might not rate because their computers drag along slow or something, so they don't want to take the time. Mine is pretty fast, so I don't mind at all.

hi pointeless. yes I really think a lot of newcomers just do not take the time to rate,maybe partly because their internet connections are slow but its important enough for all of us to make it a habit. otherwise all our stars just sit without going any place. just sitting in the same numbers day after day but if we all rated they would move up.

My rating in my star has gone from a 86 to a 87 but it took about 2 years to get there. I still don't really understand how it all works. I have to wonder if my rating doesn't move much because I mostly respond to old discussions from the mylot digests and maybe some of those members aren't active anymore so they don't get to rate them as they don't read them.

hi chris the thing is a lot of new ones probably have not had it sunk in that we are the raters and they are also to rate too so it keep our stars moving up. I would so love a blue as have been on red for several years now but its moved up from 84 to 94 finally.and 94 percent is not too bed at all.I don't worry about it as a red 9 will help you earn better and thats what counts with me as I need my earnings.

hi celticeagle I go by q uality of resp;onses not by who it is as thats not necessarily fair. some newer ones are also as good asmy friends.I do rate almost ev eryone except insulters and flammers whom I just report. I often comment on a respnse from someone else as I am told it is okay to do so by admins and by Diana too. It is not rude unless you are being insulting or unkind which I never am at all.but thats just my own feeling. I am just saying a lot of people here are not rating anyont for any reason at all and thats not right. I am not fault finding here I just wanted to make a gentle nudge.sorry if you felt otherwise as thats not my intention.

I am sorry if you got the idea I was upset with anything you said. I just feel a certain way, probably shouldn't, but I do and I let it slide because no one else feels this way.

I am also trying to rate others now a days. I am happy that others are earning the rating and also earning money. When we help someone, someone else will also help us.

hi wilsongoddard That was the way I was lately and i got to thinking that its just another great way to thank all who made great responses to my discussions. Also I now make it a habit to rate others discussion as I go along making it easier than looking at ten pages as by the time I get half way I am more than half done.

hi jujunme yes thats where I caught myself getting l azy when I had a lot of responses and was commenting back on them. I by passed that and realized thats another way to show how grateful I am for peoplke responding to my discussion.

hi changjiangzhibin yes our reputations figure in to the earnings algorithm so the higher the better the earnings so we can help ourselves and rage every day.

changjiangzhibin89 I am so glad to hear it and wait til I till you according to admins in the guidelines they use our reputations and higher stars to figure in our earnings algorithm so if all of us users do rate and make more people deserving we will help all people's reputations and stars to rise along with their earnings. this will help encourage new comers to stay here and really make some earnings while they also have some fun. so if you c an get your reputations and stars up you will earn better here in mylot.

Oh! I see.I haven't perused the guidelines well.You help me make up the missed lesson.Thanks a lot.

hi jlyn I used to do that all the time then when I started getting pages of responses I got lazy.Now i realize that its one more w ay of saying to all my friends who responded to me thanks for all of your great responses., also its a great way to show yourself which discussions you have responded to so you do not make two responses on one discussion.

Yea, I feel the same way too, that they deserve a positive rating because they have taken time to post a response on my discussions.

hi jlyn yes as I know from my own experiencing it takes some time to write out a decent response so they deserve my plus