Unfair star rating and mean people, Why bother?

I have always tick all discussion positive and i have never realize about the stars, but anyways what do the stars do? I think the star are overrated anyways so cheer up my friend. If it is any consolation i think your cool actually so i am going to add you as my friend. Cheers and happy Mylotting!

Well that's also happened to me, you notice my star sometimes goes down and goes up. Thanks to the people who rated me positive. Well anyway, just don't be bothered, stars didn't do anything for our earnings here, it's to cheer us here to continue myloting, and don't mind those people who gives you negative rate. Just continue myloting and one day you will increase your ratings.
cheers.

I have noticed along with others that some folks have been using the negative alot lately. This will cause them a problem as well as you. Do not give folks like that a positive if you see they are very low, they also may be a part of that problem. By using the - we can also make our stars go down. so it can harm us. Therefore its always best not to even touch it. Yet those using it will be going down to. So when you see there stars going down you will know then and there they are using it in a bad way.

Someone made mine go down as well awhile back because they followed me around and gave me - marks, but it is now back up there. But they also saw theres going down and wondered why. Its from abusing the - mark.

Do not give much importance to the star number you have. It does not make anyone good or bad. Having a high star does not mean that the person is great and also having a low star does not make a person small. Just keep posting whatever you feel and enjoy yourself without bothering about star ratings. My star number was 4 earlier now it has increased to 7 and it will fluctuate again I'm sure. As far as getting rid of stars is concerned, that is not a bad idea but it is totally in the hands of mylot admin.
enjoy posting

It's the POWER I say! Some folks are drunk of the power of the "-" button!

I have had my star go up and down...and up and down again...because some folks didn't agree with what I posted. I don't believe the star ranking serves any purpose other than giving folks something to talk about once in awhile.

(I'll plus your discussion....cause I have DA POWER!)

I don't understand why some users will rate others negative just because they disagree with them. I have heard others say, that mylot doesn't want us to rate another user negatibr just because we don't agree. We all have a right to our opinion whether right or wrong. If we can't do that, then there is sure something wrong with our society. I don't rate anyone negative if I don't agree with them. I just don't rate them at all. I rate all positives. Every discussion I respond to, everyone will get a positive from me. I had a low rating for the longest time, then all of a sudden it started going up and still going up. I am glad that people think enough of my responses to rate them positive. Good luck to you and happy mylotting.

well, that is really unfortunate .

i am sure it will slowly make its way up. cheer up and do not really worry about it.

Happy mylotting.

the rating system is totally unfair, we should only be allowed to rate comments on our own responses or responses on our own discussions, this would stop the trolls from rating a whole discussions worth of our posts negative.

i agree with what you're saying, we need a good debate to keep a discussion alive and unless we are rude to someone or belittle someone we should not expect a negative rating.

anyone who gives an unusual amount of negative ratings to one person in a short space of time should have their rating capability disabled.

Pretty frustrating, wasn't it? I felt the same, once my star rating was on 9, and the next day, it was dropped to 8. Without a reason, or understanding, my star was rated negatively by someone who I didn't really know. I might offended them in my posting, or whatever reason. But, I posted what I want to say in my mind, and I never meant to curse someone, or badmouthed to anybody here. We should get rid of star rating.

I think the stars are pretty pointless to be honest. I just speak my mind alot of the time, but I have seen people try to gang up on me because of it. I enjoy the political debates on here, and I think its a shame that others bother coming on here get so offended by people disagreeing with them. As far as I'm concerned, everyone else can think whatever they like. I'm not changing my opinions unless I get a really good reason to. I'd far prefer people to have a constructive argument with me than just give me a bad rating because they dont like the fact that I have a mind of my own.

Totally agree that ML should get rid of the stars, or at least remove the rating options from more controversial categories.