Who's Dropping all my Ratings ?

It seems to me that a unethical person with a grudge against you and just got the ability to rate, went and did an awful thing.

Not all of your ratings were dropped, I looked over it and rated a few myself noticing that some had NO ratings at all and remained on 6's. That leads me to believe no one went through and "dropped all your ratings" but the rating system isn't there just for people to put high ratings up. It's completely opinion based and you can't expect everybody to like everything.
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I just went through your skins fiveballs, what in the world are you talking about?

Well i think i must apologize some seem to be where they were. A serious glitch in the system Maybe or probably losin my mind i guess but i know what i saw and keep in mind i removed 3 of them Thanks for your time

yes,most were 7 and 8,not to bad really.Some skins lost their previous ratings in the crash.Check to see if you have any showing 0 rates of a 6.T-man explained that they cant be recovered.(it actually helped the rating on 1 of mine because the next rate I got was higher than the initial rating.)If someone is maliciously rating,they can be found out.

I just cleaned them up........ someone seems to have a problem, and will be watched.

hehe go K!

so it was a "jealous" or whatnot person perhaps

those darn republicans.

those darn republicans.

........ are almost as bad as those pesky Libs.

lets not start this again

heck not near as bad as us centrists

Well Thanks again for your time .And in regaurds to #2 I do not expect everyone to like everything and certainly don't care about the ratings really but when i notice ratings abuse i got to Question the responsibility of the person givin this right Including myself....Just because i got 20 bucks does this make me a responsible person ? I think not ... I just wonder who else this is happening to and should things change in regaueds to this situation ?Anyways again Thanks Koasati one minute ratings were low next minute they were back to normal...Thought i was losin my mind

So thats what it was. Darn hippies, republicans, democrats, libertarians, whigs, greenies, and rednecks. who do they think they are trying to screw up the ratings.

This happens. If you keep an eye out you will see this type of post on the MSGBD from time to time. About a year ago someone went down the top authors list and proceded to hand out 1's. That time adni brought it to light. But theres been others affected by the lone low ball rater.

What would help is if more people rated skins. I know there are a lot of people with the ability too, but go and look and see how many votes most skins have. on my skins I would guess about 1 percent of the people who have downloaded it have rated it. And if more people started voting then you could not count the lowest and highest rating(If there are more than one then just one is exluded) and that would keep the nogood-doers from doing nogooddery

actually a good suggestion,kind of like the olympics,throw out the highest and lowest rate.Might be a prob with the coding...dont know how hard that would be.

the more ratings a skin receives the less impact the do-nogooder can make

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I.R., I think that might not be easy. All ratings would have to be saved in case a higher or lower rating was recieved that was higher or lower than the ones thrown out. I think that if more people rated, that would solve a bogus 1 rating.

I think it's fine the way it's set up, just needs more participation

to #13, yes but how do you know it's ratings abuse and not someone giving an honest rating that is lower than it was. Just because someone rates a piece of work bad doesn't mean it's abuse. There are plenty of things in this site deserving of a 1, and thats not directed at you.

True WOM,they all need to be saved,maybe just not counted,so future lower or higher rates would take their place in the 'not counted' spots.Like I said,might be a prob to implement ,I dont know anything about coding.hehe,Then again something would have to have at least 3 rates,I still have stuff with the original moderator rating.

yes horiz0n but, if a skin has a rating of 8 then something is amiss for somebody to give it a 1 unless that skin has very few ratings (which might mean the ratings have been padded by friends...not pointed at anybody). So again more people need to start rating. Its like voting if you don't vote then somebody you don't like and is not good for the nation will get into office. It doesn't matter your objections to the process, your lack of integrity to actually rate something based on your own opinion, or the fact that you like to stay conservative. Rating is in the best interest of the site. And to set up a high/low cutoff one would only need to save the current rating, the number of ratings, the highest rating, and the lowest. not every single rating

Travis you have to save all ratings or 1 person could rate something multiple times,or if only allowed to rate once,that person couldnt re-evaluate a piece after an update or a change of mind.