Question about myLots rating system

I don't think that there is a limit to a person's rating. But I do see your point of questioning if it matters after a certain point. I look at it this way. If someone does not like that person's opinion and rates the person with a negative, my postive should cancel out the bad rate, right? There are people that actaully get upset at others with their response. Such as, "Oh great! There goes BrokenTia responding again. I really get sick of her long winded responses. I'm gonna start giving her a negative everytime I see her now. Maybe that will get her goat. ha ha" But would I really deserve that poor rating? I would hate to think that because someone does not like my opinion or my long responses that I would be discredited. And as many people there are out there, I am sure there are some that think this way. Personally, I do find I am always rating the same people with positives. But I hope that with me rating them with a postive each time I read their responses or discussions, that I am actually encouarging that person to continue with what that are doing. Great discussion Medooley!

That's an interesting question. I do find myself giving the same ratings to the same people, which I think says more about them than me. Some people just consistently answer well or poorly. I wonder if there is a limit. It wouldn't surprise me if there were, to keep people from just boosting the ratings of their friends.

I always rate good responds and yes, sometimes for the same people over and over. There is no limit. I also rate good topics and nice pictures. Sometimes I rate topic without responding to it. I hold myself from giving negative rate.

personally i do not think it really matters, i love to rate my responses and normally give out + to almost everyone even if i do not agree with their response. the only time i give a negative rating is if they are breaking the rules such as only posting a one word answer or posting something that does not relate to my discussion.

I always give + to all responses that I get and the discussions that I respond to. Even if a responder doesn't agree with what I say, I give them + if their responses are good although don't match with my opinion because I believe everybody has their own opinions and it depends on person to person what he/she thinks about a topic. Till now I guess I have given - to about 2-3 people only whose responses or discussions were rude or abusive type.

I only give +s. The star system is totally useless. I have seen a lot of abuse with the star rating system. Just like Humpty Dumpty, it is broken and will never be fixed.

i do not think in this angle, weell this is a good angle to think and we need to be careful in future too. thanks for the lot

I do find myself giving the same people +'s but that is because they actually responded and stayed on topic. I have given very few -'s, only if they say one word and it has nothing to do with my topic. You will contiue to give the same ones pluses until you get a bigger response base, which is what I work on every day. I think our money daily is based on our ratings. I am trying to get 1000 people in my friends circle which really helps with me getting more responses and this allows me to give different ones a +. You can only give one best response, but everyone who responds and stays on topic deserves a plus!

I do find myself handing out the same ratings to the same people over and over and over again! And, I do not think that there would be a limit to the number of ratings because many people are rating and you couldn't really put a max limit to it! This was a great discussion! Two Kudos for you!! :DD

I always rate discussion I respond to, I rate people responding to my discussions and I rate people responding to someone else discussion if I think specific respond is outstanding.

I find myself giving good and bad ratings to the same people over and over--not intentionally, but some people just post consistently good comments, and others do the opposite. One person seems to respond to every question his or her friends posts, whether they know anything about it or not. The answers are like, 'I've never heard of that singer, so I don't know if he is coming out with a new CD.' Why bother responding if you have no knowledge of or opinion on the subject?

I admit, I never rate responses. I never take the time to do it. I rate my husband's because it DOES increase his earnings, and he rates mine, but other than that, I never really think about doing it.

Maybe the Rating System helps save mylots time

i dnt rate noone

Basically I will go through any single responses in my own discussion and will rates them with mostly positive rating as am really appreciates their efforts to make a responses to my topics but somehow I do found that some of them were really serious and have make very good and meaningful responses while some might just simply make a responses to boot up their user ratings. In either case provided you didn't responses with one meaningless word or was totally out of my topic I will still rates them with positive ratings.It doesn't matters were them the same person or difference person as for me I truly feel that the quality of the contents was the priority concern and thus it shouldn't have any limitations in this case.Lastly to your last question in your topic...yes am sure either negative or positive ratings will surely affects your reputations otherwise it will be meaningless for us to use those good or bad ratings

I only give negative ratings to those who post irrelevant responses or one or few worded responses. The positive ratings go to those who think out their responses and put effort into them. I am really not sure about your last question. MyLot staff are the only ones that truly know the answer to that question.

I rate all people that reply to my discussions with a +, as long as it has to do with the subject and is not justa single word answer. The - are accordning to mylot rules only to be used when people spam or break other rules of mylot.. I also hand out a bst response to the person who has answered in the best way!

I think that as long as you're rating people honestly that it really doesn't matter what other people are doing. As we have all seen on myLot numerous times ... there will always be someone who tries to abuse the system. I really wish that people would understand how to use the rating system, in that you don't hand out "-" for answers that you disagree with, but instead for breaking myLot guidelines. I do wonder if the stars influence people's ratings, if people follow the crowd and give people with higher ratings a "+" everytime and people with a lower rating a "-"?

personally, i don't give ratings because it's their own opinion. there negative or positive or good or bad opinion for me. it may contradict with my opinion but i don't mind them in the end.