Yesterday I reported 3 abusers and today I went from 10 to 9 reputation. What??

Yeah, I'd say someone probably blasted you with the negative ratings. No worries. You'll be back on top in no time.

I reported an abuser three times and my rating didn't go down. He copied and pasted one of my replies in the SAME discussion if you can believe it. I just reported him every day with the exclamation button until mylot did something. Today they removed his posting. Actually, I think my rating is going to plummet. I'm about 90 % certain I was negged (twice) for not towing the line in a political discussion. It'll be interesting to see. Anyway, I don't think the fact that you reported abuse had anything to do with it. It's more likely that a vindictive person decided to have the last say by pushing the negative button.

It makes me wonder how the rating system is set up. One week I was at a 9 and this week I was at an 8. :( I hope to get back up! :) I am trying to be more active on here as well. It makes me also wonder if we are rated based on us reporting others? I try to catch the cheaters and spammers on here because they annoy me. :)

umh..... as far as I know, its because some one rate U negative And it make Ur rating drop. But ussually it only drop 1 points. So U should not be panic ^^ U will reach it soon I knew because U able to speak English well and able to make good response. ^^ Good luck

this is what i understood from mylot guidelines. users with a user rating of less than 100 will not yet have myLot reputation myLot reputation is determined by the myLot community,not user It doesn’t mean that 8 stars means “good user” and 5 stars means “bad user” only indicate how active user are increase your reputation is by contributing quality topics, responses and comments and avoid breaking mylot rules!

I dont know how they would know it was you that reported them, but if you think that's what it was then maybe you shouldnt report people, i have not seen anyone missusing mylot as of yet. What IS an abuser ? not posting in the proper spots or something ? everyone here seems pretty well rounded and behaved, which is odd for a forum i think.

I think it may be the negative ratings. I can't see you losing points for reporting abusers. That is what we are suppossed to do to make the site better. I hope your rating goes up again. Good luck.

What a bummer WM. I report abusers too but haven't noticed my star change colour (yet!). Perhaps as the previous person said it could be a negative rating or two for some petty thing or another that someone might have taken offence to. Hope your star turns blue again very soon! ;)

The reson for that is because other members rate you "-". That's how it works around here. I don't know why someone will do such thing. Hope you go back to your 10 rating as fast as possible.