Is Rating dead now?

An awful lot of ratings are exchanged at clubs for the purpose of increasing stipend. i.e. I'll give you +3 if you'll do the same. You will notice as an extreme example that most of the top 10 builders are actually club dancers, not actual builders. You'll see the real builders (apart from 1 or 2 who do make the top 10) anywhere between 15th and 1500th place.

I agree totally and think its said that a friendly, positive way of introducing oneself is now gone.

If my 2000+ L is returned to me that I paid out, then reset them to 0...

or all rating scaled back by /25 would be fine to be fair to the new standard.

Personally, I'm in the reset the L$1's to 0. Refund or no, those ratings shouldn't count.

Phase them out over time. Each week, before stipend bonuses are calculated, delete all ratings over a year old. Eventually, only L$25 ratings will count. (And when we reach that point, stop deleting old ratings. Maybe.)

As are the embarrased explanations of those totally broke and unable to reciprocate. I think the freindly greeting and passing compliment works better anyway, and costs 100% less while leaving the repuation system alone.

I've given one rating this week, to a really nice and well behaved Newbie.

You don't like the way ratings are at the moment?

I've requested we form a Union together, at this forum:

/120/47/33274/1.html

If you want to stand shoulder to shoulder with other SL residents, and put your case to the Lindens as a group, join up.

There is no leader, this is not a members club, this is just a group of paying customers speaking together. Speak with us or speak alone.

I want my 9,084 back

I'll sign up

Can I request we don't hear about a GFD union in every single thread?

Surreal

I'll bring it up at the next union meeting, we can vote on it

I'll type this really slowly...

Stop.... Spamming.... Threads. You are being an asshole.

Back on topic - are ratings dead? Certainly not! *someone's* (cough cough union spammer cough) alt just wasted money negging me! LOL!

The system works I tell you! I can piss people off AND help the economy at the same time!

(btw I gave up actually giving a crap about ratings a looooooong time ago)

Siggy.

I was careful to build up my positive ratings until the change. Now that it costs more to rate, I can start being an asshole without worrying too much about get negs.

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Psych!

Seriously, though, I found it uncomfortable* to get a +3 from someone I'd just met (who likely hadn't seen any of my builds, as I wasn't distributing them yet). I like to earn my accolades, so I'm cool with the change. *shrug*

* I'm talkin' 'bout the twinge of guilt you get when you receive undue praise/credit. Actually, does anyone else know what I'm talking about, or am I just weird?

seems to me that some people now use rating a little like buying someone a drink. hey baby can i get you a positive? +3 i'm a big spender woowoo. won't get her drunk, but hey...

l.

LOL i waonder if thats really going to start happening!

Yep, noticed it myself, lol.

LOL i have see this for myselve!

That was quick, you got me before my edit.

LOL I am quick with the fingers. WAKA WAKA! A little humor to loosen up things

Something these forums badly need, if you ask me.

They seem to get out of hand fast...........

Just to demonstrate how dead ratings are;

I actually rated someone a couple of days ago because they did something really nice for me. I was looking for a white dress shirt with a tie, and he had one on hand and passed it over almost as soon as I asked. It made my day so he got a +1 behavior from me along with my gratitude. Now I'm still in noob country as far as cash goes, so $25L isn't spare change to me. The rating felt meaningful to me and I enjoyed giving it.

So a week later; not dead, just meaningful.

Look, I do NOT agree that the ratings I earned up til now -positive OR negative - are devalued becasue of the cost of a rating point.

When someone gave me a point because they appreciated something I did for them, I didn't do the math and say to myself "Look, someone loves me a whole buck's worth!"

I didn’t carry myself any differently before than after the increase. 100 ratings is NOT 100 Lindens worth of ratings. It’s 100 times another person said “Hmmm. That’s a Good Thing.”

I never went to rating parties (except for my unwitting attendance at that neg-rating party in Jessie where I was apparently guest-of-honor), or rated someone to get them to rate me, or even gave someone three points when I was really rating behavior. So, I’m a bit alarmed to hear people say my ratings are now “worth” less. If I wanted my ratings to have a monetary worth, I’d have handed out cash – which, by the way, I have done on occasion!

Maybe people should have been more honest about the ratings they gave out before. I tried to be. But, even if they were not honest, why should MY ratings be devalued?

I’m beginning to wonder if this is a clever way of destroying the rating system completely. Not that I would miss it, but I’d prefer an open, clean axe more than a gradual sabotage. If the Lindens have decided that there be no artificial boost to socialization, then they should send the rating system the same place as the points-for-calling-cards went.

I’d much prefer some sort of tax (yes, we used to have taxes) than to have the rating system monetarized.

Kill the system dead, or leave it alone. I see NO justification for comparing prior ratings to current ones just because the Lindens chose to meddle in the system for their own – UNRELATED – economic purposes.