Topic: L. M. A. O!!!!! - Interordi Forums

I just joined a new "social networking" site called Yuwie. This is like MySpace, except that you get paid for people reading your blogs, leaving comments, or sending messages (etc.), so you are going to purposely try and add like 20,000 friends if possible. So that is how this guy is sending me messages.

I posted a bulliten, that says,

"ONCE AGAIN

Please note I will not rate you 10/10/10 unless that is what I actually think. Rating profiles as a 10 will NOT help you if everyone is rating everyone as 10/10/10. Although I am not sure if that is what the last person who rated me actually thinks or not, she may have actually thought that."

I had posted a bulliten about this before, it didn't say the exact same thing it said, "RATING 10 DOES NOT HELP PAGEVIEWS

Please note I will not rate you 10/10/10 unless that is what I actually think. Rating profiles as a 10 will NOT help you if everyone is rating everyone as 10/1010. Although I am not sure if that is what the last person who rated me actually thinks or not, she may have actually thought that."

Since then I had gotten five more ratings as all 10s, so I posted the second notice.

I got a reply...

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Frey -"ed. note" if you join for any reason would you mind using my link above instead of this one?

Subject: then just don't rate them at all 10/13/2007 6:11:28 PM

Message: If you aren't going to rate people at 10/10/10, then just don't rate them at all.

People work really hard on their pages and style, layout, and design is all subjective. Unless you are an expert in layouts and have some expertise in that area, it is not for you to rate somebody lower than a 10 because it's really disrespectful to rate someone low when they work hard on their page and you rate them down.

I think you are taking the rating thing way too seriously. Nobody really takes your feedback and goes "wow, a 9? I need to fix my page" so you just give them a 10 and move on or don't rate them at all.

Frey

Me:

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Subject: RE: I'm not sure why 10/13/2007 6:22:54 PM

that's pretty dumb. The rating system exists so you canchoose a number between 1 -10. If it exitsed only to give 10s, it wouldn't have 1 - 9 as an avilable choice. And no, not everyone did work hard on their page.

Stupid Person A:

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Subject: RE: RE: I'm not sure why 10/13/2007 6:29:44 PM

I understand what you are saying, but this isn't about rating people, it's about building a community of friends. For the benefit of cultivating friendships, and also making money while doing it.

You wouldn't walk into someone's home and start tearing it apart pointing out the things you don't like. If you had manners, you would compliment them on it, even it was not your taste because that is the polite and mature thing to do.

Asking you to rate someone's page a 10, isn't asking you to break some moral code, it's asking you to work towards a positive community of online friends. You can't honestly think anyone would feel good about opening an email telling them they got rated and seeing a lower score? This isn't a contest with a panel of judges. If you read the Q&A on Yuwie, it says the profile ranking "SERVES NO PURPOSE, IT'S JUST FOR FUN". If you think having someone tear apart your page is fun, "that's pretty dumb" as you so eloquently put it.

Frey

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Subject: RE: RE: I'm not sure why 10/13/2007 6:34:50 PM

Message: You're right, I wouldn't... unless that person says, "What do you think of my new couch?" If it is cool, I would say, "Cool." If it is okay, I would say, "Nice." And if it was ugly, I would say, "It's ugly."

If the fact that someone doesn't like your profile is seriously going to upset you or make you feel "torn apart," then you have some SERIOUS issues you need to work on. Also, in order to "tear apart: somebody's profile, I would have to say...

"This is the most horrendous piece of shit I have ever had the horror of laying my eyes upon. There is this wrong with it, this wrong with it,and that wrong with it, along with these 15 other things. I tried to poke my eyes out with a rusty fork! I cannot believe your friends and family still love you after seeing this atrocity! I am never speaking to you again!"

I don't think rating somebody's profile as an 8 or 9 is QUITE conveying the mesage I just typed out...

AREN'T PEOPLE FUN?????

Hang on I think he just responded...

Edited by God on October 13, 2007 at 18:48:35.