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Do you believe in Negative Ratings?

Willow Zander
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12-15-2004 07:25
OMFG!

now SANTA doesn't exist

*wails and curls up into a tight ball*
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Blake Rockwell
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12-15-2004 07:29
From: Kris Ritter
Thanks, Blake. I always wondered what that word meant. How does this help? It still leaves the original question ambiguous in its meaning.

Think of it this way... substitute 'Santa' for 'Negative Ratings' and ask the question again?

'Do you believe in Santa?' .. ok, I think we ALL know what that means... Do you believe in the existence of Santa? But wait... we KNOW Santa doesn't exist.. so by your own reasoning, this question must in fact mean 'Do you believe that the propogation of the myth of Santa is a positive or negative force?' or something to that effect, in the same way that 'Do you believe in Negative Ratings?' isn't about belief IN negative ratings...we KNOW they exist... it's a belief in the rightness or wrongness of the system in place that facilitates them.

It's all in the wording, Blake. And yours is very often ambiguous. As are the poll choices you offer. With a little more thought, you could make polls useful and meaningful in the context you meant them instead of degenerating into a discussion on what you actually meant in the first place, and why you didnt offer the correct choices.


Learn what the word "OR" and "AND" mean.
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Kris Ritter
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12-15-2004 07:30
From: Willow Zander
OMFG!

now SANTA doesn't exist

*wails and curls up into a tight ball*


awwwr! *comforts Willow*

I din mean it... I wuz just trying to confuse Blake.
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12-15-2004 07:30
From: Willow Zander
OMFG!

now SANTA doesn't exist

*wails and curls up into a tight ball*

He does, I had an ale with him last nite hon :p
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Blake Rockwell
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12-15-2004 07:31
Lol.
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Kris Ritter
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12-15-2004 07:33
From: Blake Rockwell
Learn what the word "OR" and "AND" mean.


WTF is that supposed to mean?

Like I said, I don't have a clue what you're going on about most of the time. I give up responding to you at all. In fact, I'm muting you. Because it's more than a little facetious to post first a dictionary definition of a word that just further confuses your point, and even more so to tell me to learn what 'or' and 'and' mean. I was offering you some advice and illustrating it with a point to help.

But instead, I'll ignore you in future. You're not worth wasting the responses on.
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Blake Rockwell
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12-15-2004 07:37
From: Kris Ritter
WTF is that supposed to mean?

Like I said, I don't have a clue what you're going on about most of the time. I give up responding to you at all. In fact, I'm muting you. Because it's more than a little facetious to post first a dictionary definition of a word that just further confuses your point, and even more so to tell me to learn what 'or' and 'and' mean. I was offering you some advice and illustrating it with a point to help.

But instead, I'll ignore you in future. You're not worth wasting the responses on.


Oh come on now. You offer great wisdom at times. I "value" that.
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Willow Zander
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12-15-2004 07:41
From: Blake Rockwell
Oh come on now. You over great wisdom at times. I "value" that.


*offer

:)

Good job she can't see that, cos that too makes no sense :)

PS: Blake will edit this in 2 mins to make this post look stuipd... OH LOOK he DID
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Adam Cooper
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12-15-2004 07:43
LOL

Tito - Ohhh your right! I am a virgin in that department..... LOL Ahhh well pop my cherry its all good. Just hope ya like the orgazm I'll give ya when you do. Opps.... Thats right, this is not about sex, ok my bad........ :) :)

Willow - Hun don't fret none. I know for a fact that santa and the Bunny do exist! They were at my house a few day's ago playing poker with us and beleave me that bunny can play poker!!!

And Blake, this quote is for you dude....... Merry X-Mas........... :)


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Blake Rockwell
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12-15-2004 07:46
From: Willow Zander
*offer

:)

Good job she can't see that, cos that too makes no sense :)


LOL! I fixed that by the way :)
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Willow Zander
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12-15-2004 07:48
Yes, as we suspected you would, to make my posts look ridiculous :rolleyes:
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12-15-2004 07:50
I feel like i've been married to Kris and we just divorced. :(
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12-15-2004 08:06
From: Kris Ritter
WTF is that supposed to mean?

Like I said, I don't have a clue what you're going on about most of the time. I give up responding to you at all. In fact, I'm muting you. Because it's more than a little facetious to post first a dictionary definition of a word that just further confuses your point, and even more so to tell me to learn what 'or' and 'and' mean. I was offering you some advice and illustrating it with a point to help.

But instead, I'll ignore you in future. You're not worth wasting the responses on.


Ok I'am sorry if I mis-interpreted thank you for helping me..Willow tell her I am sorry.
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Willow Zander
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12-15-2004 08:08
Ok I will do... and then she will slap me, but well she's not on at the moment, shes gone home :p
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12-15-2004 08:12
I voted yes, but it would take extreme circumstances for me to neg rate someone. They would have to be a toatal asshat causing grief to everyone to get a neg from me, and then only after a warning to cease and desist. I would never neg anyone on a build, as it has been said before, "One mans ugliness is another mans beauty". :cool:
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12-15-2004 08:30
Though I do not believe in negs, I do believe in feedback about people. And I would love to be able to actually leave feedback about someone sometimes, because a neg rating is just a statistic... it doesn't tell what really went on that caused it.

I have recieved two triple negs and a single neg in Appearance (Someone evidently thought that the magpie was gay.... who is he to wildly guess at my sexual orientation??)

In contrast, I have negged 5 times for behavior. People that have thoughrally deserved it. I also ARed each one.

- One who invaded my land wearing a scripted ... ahem... "attachment" while I was showing some new folks what you could do in SL, evaded a subsequesent land ban, acted like an immature idiot, and this was someone that had been around SL for six months. c.c

- Three for prowling the WA with massive push-guns that ghost you halfway across the world. The first time was an invoncenience. The second time was annoying. The third time was the final straw. All the time he was saying "I just turned 25, I got a trust fund, you can't do anything to me cuz I'll just keep coming back, so go ahead, report me" etc. Got bored of the guy. Interestingly enough, the next day, he was gone... and never returned. :)

- One for rezzing something VERY, VERY inappropriate in Oak Grove while a class was on. Swastikas are bad enough, but I won't even mention what text was included on the cube, but it would have been quite offensive to much of the population... especially since it was a newb event and they don't need to see the worst of SL so soon. :(
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Cristiano Midnight
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12-15-2004 08:36
From: Blake Rockwell
Since this is a topic that's becomming very popular, so..I present the question. State your case and or feelings.

I do not believe in Negative Ratings..I do not condone it on anyones part. You are a mirror of your own Image. Negative Ratings are just a tool of retaliation and insult. I do not believe in Negatives. Negatives breed Negatives.

This is a general statement..not aimed at any one individual. This is my opinion.


Blake, I implore you to please stop doing non-anoymous polls. THe forums are polarizing enough without the privacy of being able to vote on seemingly innocent subjects being taken away. People should be able to vote one way or another without fear of repurcussions over a topic. While certainly this is probably not the topic it would happen on, people surprise me all the time with their pettiness - don't add fuel to the fire.
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katykiwi Moonflower
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12-15-2004 08:39
From: Khamon Fate
i didn't have im to email checked when i received my triple neg so i have no idea who it was from....but they've probably forgotten all about it.
That is another huge problem. I, too, was neg rated by an unknown person, and I cant for the life of me remember why and to whom I delivered a neg rating way way back when I started. A record of neg votes would be very helpful and not hard to set up as a feature.
Shadow Weaver
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12-15-2004 08:45
I abstain as the question is retorical and ambigious.

Blake your Debating symantics again and starting to sound lot like some of the wayfairers that eventually got "Removed" from the forums.

Make some points that are concise to the point and cannot draw ambiguity and close the polls to where the voters have autonimity and you may get more intelegent and debatable responses.

Sincerely, Shadow
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Blake Rockwell
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12-15-2004 09:00
From: Shadow Weaver
I abstain as the question is retorical and ambigious.

Blake your Debating symantics again and starting to sound lot like some of the wayfairers that eventually got "Removed" from the forums.

Make some points that are concise to the point and cannot draw ambiguity and close the polls to where the voters have autonimity and you may get more intelegent and debatable responses.

Sincerely, Shadow


Understood..and even another topic.."Should the forums allow ones Identity to show with regards to their Voting?" Yes unfortunately some may target others that do not vote the same as them, but then again, we see that anyway concerning viewpoints in Posts.
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Malachi Petunia
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12-15-2004 09:26
From: Cristiano Midnight
Blake, I implore you to please stop doing non-anoymous polls....
And he is as likely to do that as you are to stop making sanctimonious posts. Got an issue with moderation here? Why don't you run your own forums?
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Ace Cassidy
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12-15-2004 10:03
I may not believe in either Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, but I sure do believe in neg-rates.

I have only used negative ratings 3 times, and all 3 for very legitimate reasons. When someone surreptiously places land scanners on people's land without their permission, or when someone tells a racist joke at Tribal Drums, they get neg-rated by me.

I use them sparingly, but feel that they are a legitimate means of expressing my displeasure of what is happening.

- Ace
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Lecktor Hannibal
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12-15-2004 10:05
From: Ace Cassidy
I may not believe in either Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, but I sure do believe in neg-rates.

I have only used negative ratings 3 times, and all 3 for very legitimate reasons. When someone surreptiously places land scanners on people's land without their permission, or when someone tells a racist joke at Tribal Drums, they get neg-rated by me.

I use them sparingly, but feel that they are a legitimate means of expressing my displeasure of what is happening.

- Ace

I was wondering why you negged me ;)
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Siobhan Taylor
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12-15-2004 10:07
Do I believe in neg-ratings?
Well, I believe they exist. I have a few, most given by a certain ex-partner and her alts when we broke up... the rest from a certain Land Baron who I caught stealing land... (yes it is possible, or was)
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12-15-2004 10:08
From: Ace Cassidy
I may not believe in either Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny, but I sure do believe in neg-rates.

I have only used negative ratings 3 times, and all 3 for very legitimate reasons. When someone surreptiously places land scanners on people's land without their permission, or when someone tells a racist joke at Tribal Drums, they get neg-rated by me.

I use them sparingly, but feel that they are a legitimate means of expressing my displeasure of what is happening.

- Ace


Dude you never neg rated me? Come on Ace give me a triple shot! ;)
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