Who amongst us myLotians rate discussions?

Well I figure some people must do the rating, since I had a ten and now I am 9 and I have had different numbers in that star. I do leave ratings because if I am responding to a discussion then I have something to say so I will leave a plus, and I will usually leave plus ratings on almost all those who respond to discussions I post, because if they took the time to respond then I should at least take the time to reply, rate or both. I may not always have a contributing response, or it may be a repetative one, so I will just leave the rating. My idea of a - rating is to just not leave a rating at all. I have left two negative ratings on a different site, in one case someone was basically responding in an extremely offensive way to what was an honest question. It is rare however that I would bother to leave negative and I have not encountered that here on my lot where where anyone has been so vulgarlly offensive. So I like to leave positive ratings, when I am in a topic, not just for the posted topic, or for the response to my topic but I will also leave positive rating for those responses that I really like, or even may disagree with but feel the one who wrote it gave some good points, or obviously gave sincere thought to their side of an issue.

i do always. whenever i respond to any discussion, i rate it POSITIVE (obviously i answer the ones which i find appealing, hence positive). i rate pictures aswell, very seldom though, only the times when i don't feel like thinking and typing. i never negative rate anyone, i just ignore it, that's how am i. dear, i just rate you positive.

Yes, I do rate discussions and responses feralwoman. For a start if a discussion is worthy of a response from me, then it will merit a positive (+) or else I wouldn't bother to respond to it at all. When I am reading through responses to both my own and other discussions I will rate them positive (+) if appropriate. Not every response merits it of course, because in my opinion that takes away the value of the rating system. So, the good ones get a positive and the rest get nothing, except if it is totally out of order then it will either get a report to myLot or a negative rating. Generally if it is bad enough for a negative, then it is bad enough to report to myLot. For a negative, the person would need to be abusive, spamming or totally off the topic of discussion. I also check out the photos/images that have been downloaded and will rate them, positive only or else I ignore them. Some people have commented on inappropriate photos being downloaded, well I don't even bother with those discussions so I don't see them. A photo deserves to be rated the same as a discussion or a response does, in my opinion anyway. With my own discussions, I will go back and award a best response to them at a later time, when the responses have slowed down to a trickle. OR when for some reason myLot "unresolves" them, and I have to do it all over again.

I rate every discussion that I respond to with a +!!! And I have left comments on several users pictures. Sometimes it's fun to visit other's profiles and see what pictures they have - as to whether they are personal or just great pictures they have taken themselves!! There's always something interesting out there that we may not have seen yet!!! What's sup with you these days??

I try to rate every discussion I read and get reponses to. I think it is an important feature, and I must admit, I think it's really fun too! Good topic by the way!

I just noticed the rating system yesterday and I only rated the people who have replied to my discussions for now. Sometimes I just forget to rate it. I have never rated photos though. I was thinking of budgeting time here at mylot. like i'll post for 2 hours, then the next hour, I'll be uploading photos and the next would be rating. But I'm doing everything spontaneously now.

yes, I leave ratings in a lot of discussions, both mine and other people's. On the whole, they're mainly positive ratings... I very rarely leave negative ones, although I must admit I did so once, so call me a moron if you like, but this guy was a top-grade agitator. He upset everybody in sight and most people agreed with me when I said I was leaving a negative. Brightest Blessings.

I find that I rate all the discussions I get involved in and also any pictures too. Sometimes I don't have as much time as I would like to spend on MyLot so those days I have to pick and chose where I look but mostly I do rate.

I really rate discussions specially if it is from my friends discussion before I responded I really secure it that I rate it because it is important. Leaving a discussion behind without rating is unfair to the member specially if she/he deserve to be rated +.

These days I think I have finally gotten in the habit of rating the discussions I read... it did take me several weeks of being on the site before I figured out it was "part of the deal" of being here. And yes, I do sometimes rate photos, as well. The thing I find confusing is that we can leave comments on ANY discussion... but in order to leave a comment on a photo, we must be friends with the poster.

i donno about others but i rate a plus everytime i login to Mylot. i donno why i dont get much but i make it a point to give a plus everyday , to the best response i come across.

i rate ,and specially when the question is really desrving and i never rate -ve and according to meit is the persons frustration which he/she is taking out on a discussion.

yeah friend i also rate when i found hmm ,good one expression in my mind.i also never rate -ve ,that is not at all good and its a kind of foolishness or weakness in my eyes.

I noticed the rating feature just a few days ago and haven't given it a test run yet. But I will from now on just because of your post!! :)