do you rate people on discussion that u start??

I rate all of them, yes :) also, if I see an outstanding response (either because it was very good or very bad) in another discussion, I will rate it accordingly. I'm not sure how much ratings matter in the overall scheme of things, but hey... nothing to lose.

i always rated to people. but only those people who gave good responces.

I too rate atleast one of the response i get for each of the discussion i started. I feel it will make them really happy

No.1 I will rated people that reply my start discussion. No.2 I will rated people that I have reply discussion that other start discussion

Every one who gives response has spent some time in understanding the discussion and framing a reply. He should be rated for his/her efforts. I also try to rate each and every response.

Frankly speaking, i only rate those who really put in effort and provide quality answers to my responses. Often, i find only one liners like i agree, or yes, no, and even i don't know. For once, i feel that these people are wasting the space in my discussion. (i even have the feeling to put a negative rating on them) With the dilemma of wanting responses, but hating lousy responses, i just left most of the responses neutral unless its insightful, or of good effort. Speaking about happiness, i would definitely love to make everyone happy around. However, i cannot take the ratings for granted to rate it on people whom i feel are not contributing to the discussions. I need to have a standard of quality i recieve in responses. Part of my objective here is to know more knowledge, views, and opinions of others. I don't fancy zero opinion, or even one liners. -=Dislike One liners=-