New rating system for myLot?

Please no more rating systems. These things can be abused and have proven to be abused....such as the star reputation. If a person does not like your opinion or you say something that upset another...your star reputation suffers. Yes, the guidelines say that is not the point of it. We are to respect everyone's opinion. And while I do respect everyone has their own opinion...the respect has not been returned. And now..my star rep has suffered. If this new rating system was put into place...I would have to wonder if a person was truly giving the best response to the most deserving...or if it is given based on building up a friend. As it is...I have seen that already happening also. There will be a couple people that have all the discussions best responses awarded to just one user...and if you go to that user...all of that person's best responses awarded to the other. I understand there is a potential for people to cheat here and they do....but I would not want to have another rating system that I would have to get over. Great idea...but I would prefer not to see it.

You know, i kinda like your idea about this new mylot rating system. However, it's not always the quality of your responses that are the deciding factor for your post recieveing the best response mark. Rather it's on the topic starter's discreation as to who to give the best response to, and all. So, i'd say, apart from the rating system, there should be something else too that could give the user ranks, or something of the sort depending on his quality, which would be decided with better ways instead of those + and - signs beside the response. Although i am not saying that those signs should be removed, but this should be added in addition to those!

I think that is an interesting idea. I am at 18.7 percent. I usually do not talk about this, and will not give specific numbers as that feels a bit like boasting to me. Telling a percentage does not feel quite so boastful, I am not sure why. Maybe a percentage like this would be helpful.

I think that is an outstanding idea! I just calculated mine and I am not nearly as high as you but as of today I am at 8%.

Well let's see, I have 66 and 1311 when I logged on so that is...almost 21.7%. Okay yeah let's do it, I am game!!LOL {Of course if I had been at 2% I would have said "THAT IS STUPID!"} I think it depends a lot on where they came from. Did you get that one because you were the only one to respond? Was it best out of 3 or 20 or even 100? It would not be fair either when there are so many that give the BR to the same person over and over(some are actually the same person with 2 or more IDs. there are some that give it to the first to responder give it and a better one comes along. I think it would be good in theory but there are to many people that do not use it right and cheat here so it would be no more reliable than the star reputation!

i'm new in the game, how do i get a colored star? hehehe... and i dun even know how myLot earnings are calculated. do they manually calculate? i dun think so... coz there are thousands of postings to track... oh! am i in the wrong discussion here? sorry.....

so I have 35 pages + 3 is that 353 so will you calculate that for me please as it is my bed time and I will have forgotten by tomorrow , ( is that a good score then lol ) xx

my best answers come out to approximately 22 person, however I do not think that would be fair, because a person can only give one best answer and there are sometimes several on a discussion that are really good. How I choose is I take the first good one, but that is not fair to someone who is in a different time zone for example. Nothing is really fair when you have two or three very good answers.

what a fantastic idea this is, i truely hope you have passed it on to mylot admin, i certainly think it would add to the experience and appeals to our target driven nature. Also, it would give the best response tag real, or at least added, meaning. I have no idea what my rating would be but i too have had a few best responses. It would be interesting to know blessed be

Sounds like a great idea on the surface. My rating is 7.35%. Not sure how fair it would be. The people who are more intelligent will actually do a lot better than those who have to try a lot harder to make quality posts and get quality responses. People who struggle with English will come off badly. Is this fair do you think?

I think you think a lot. *laughs* Actually, this is a very interesting idea. I haven't figured out what my rating would be, because it's my day off from work and I do enough math at work, but someday I'll have to check it out. Wow, from that rating, it seems like you are really doing well. Much better than me, I'm sure!

I personally disagree with that. I have read responses that are to the point and a very clear response which are not wordy. I have also read responses that go on and on, but still never give a response. The problem with that kind of rating system you are talking about, is that someone can be ganged up on and slammed with negative reponses just because of difference of opinions and or how they wrote it up. The whole idea is to share ideas and opinions, not to slam someone because they disagree, and or are critiquing the way they have expressed themselves. I know I have gotten bad ratings because someone didn't like my opionion, and that is wrong. It keeps people from being able to express themselves, and really sharing their opinions. So I like what MyLot has done. You want to give a bad rating, then your own score goes down, not the person who gave their genuine opinion.

Another rating system? Currently, there is the star rating and the colored stars. So there will be another 'medal' by the username for the best response :P I agree that having another rating would be a good barometer for quality responses. But, what constitute quality responses and how are best responses awarded? Are best responses given out based on merit or based on personal preference? myLot may then then to write guidelines for best responses and monitor them too, unless it is mylot who gives the best response :P

Rating best responses is one of the effective way to baseline quality response. There is a thought hit my forehead just now, if i have another fren, say I started 100 discussion, he replices all 100, and i rated all his response as best response, then he would be 100% Best response marked. Thus, in favor back, he started 100 discussion and i replied all 100 and he marked 100 best response to me. Yeah!!! We both are 100% Best Response mylotter!

Hello Lordwarwizard, Before joining MyLot, I was active on another forum that used the percentage of best answer as an indicator of performance. I see two problems with MyLot adopting this ratio as a measure of performance based on my experience on the other forum: 1. I suspect that it will discourage members from responding to q's that already have a 'Best Answer' selected. As it it now, many members frequently respond to older q's. I suspect this will diminish if a visible icon representing our percentage of best answers is visible by our avatars. 2. Instituting %B/A will also most likely increase competitiveness on the site. It did on the other forum. It also stimulated more cheating activity. Although there was no pay on the other site, the members were fiercely competitive about their best answers ratio as it's a matter of ego. Many duplicate registrations popped up, and strawman voting was rampant. Meaning that one person would open 10 accounts, and vote themselves best answer. Just some thoughts to ponder.

Your idea is a good one, and I am not knocking it, but it has flaws, like any suggestion. Since there can only be ONE best response for each discussion, it means there can be many really top quality responses in each discussion, which under that rating wouldn't be acknowledged. The best response rating, as most of us know, is sometimes abused, with people "swapping" best responses with friends. We have probably all seen best responses given to decidedly unworthy recipients. The 3473 you quote as your points is not a reliable starting point, since in your case, you would get two points for each discussion. (We gain a point for one response and one comment on each discussion) I have often suggested it would be good if myLot could make a division of some sort between those who are here for good, open, courteous, intelligent discussion and debate, and those who are here for rapid posting and high earnings, without thought of discussion; those who never return to their discussions to read, rate and comment. I don't know how this could be achieved. Maybe it would be possible to add a symbol, along with the star, or maybe the discussions could be printed in different colours. It might be better to add another category to the discussions list in the left panel: something like "quality discussions". With your ultra high speed connection and unlimited download, you have no problem in opening numerous pages to find good discussions, but some of us do. Again, I compliment you for your idea, which has a lot of merit. It would be good if something could be done in this regard.

I have recently visited the page of an abuser. NEARLY EVERY one of his best responses was plagiarized, but he had several pages of them, and only two or three discussions. I would imagine that his rating would be quite high, at least until myLot removed these discussions.

Although I can see your idea with this, it may not be a good idea to add a best response rating system. Even though there seems to be a lot of people on here who rate the - and + honestly who is to say it will be the same way for the new rating system idea you have. And what if people start playing favorites and only choose one of their friends response and not one that is more deserving? Or a best response is chosen due to the fact it is the only response in the discussion? Even though I've only been on here a short time, I am happy with the rating system as it is. Why add more?

hey lord, thts genius! i think a sure way to check quality....i appretiate ur thoughts for keeping up with the quality discussions but just one more consideration tht i would like to add is the STAR! after all, if a discussion has many good responses we accreditthem by a star and it should also be a deciding factor.... FOr me, i got just 3 best response out of 280 or so..thts marginally more than 1%...far less than u! but i guess with time this would surely improve!

Hmm Sounds a good idea. But there are some problems in this. What if your friends select yours as the best responce every time. As some one said earlier if a person is hurt with our responce we might get the worst responce rating and that would hurt us badly. So far i have some 271 posts by the time i am writing a responce here and i dont have a single best responce rating. I don't know if that is lack of some good subject in supporting my responce or is it because they din't like my responses. But the idea can be a good one which i will definetly support. So i have a Infinity now as best responce rating lol thats the way i should be happy. Anyways your id suggests what kind of a Gem you are. These ideas should be taken count into by mylot.