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AH! People on this site who ask for help frustrate me. Not all people do this but several do. Advice is where people from all different points of view give the honest answer they think even if it's brutal. Yet when some people do give honest answers, the questioner, who doesn't like the answer, decides to give a 1 for not getting a sugar coated answer. If we all said "Yeah, you're right, this and that" blah blah than those arn't advice...so I guess I'm asking why do people do that and is there any way to clarify to people that advice is not always sugar coated and that giving a 1 because they don't like the answer is just a;skljga;lkjg?
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i really dont care what my rating is but i agree with you. i guess i have done that a lot but i just want to be nice. i really-REALLY gotta stop doing that
thank YOU for helping me realise my mistake
♥ Flaggal
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i agree with you. i only give ones or low answers when i really think the quality of the advice was poor or they were just flat-out rude. if i disagree with someone, ill still give them a higher rating.
i just think you shouldnt care abotu your rating and still answer honestly. who cares anyway? its just a site - your rating isnt everything.
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it is lame when people give nice answers sometimes.
Especially when it's only for the ratings.
I personally, don't care what
my ratings are. I answer the questions
I mean isn't that what people are here for?
to get honest help.
I mean fi you don't want to hear the truth
shouldn't people not be on this site?
but I think you do have a good point with this..
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The solution is simple: Don't attach any importance to your ratings.
I happen to have a fairly decent average, which I am grateful for, but when I give advice it is not with my eventual rating in mind. I give it because it feels good to help people, and if they don't want to be helped... that's unfortunate, but I'm generally more concerned with the fact that they're sabotaging themselves than with a poor rating. The ONLY time I ever reported one of my ratings was when my answer was a matter of fact rather than opinion, and it was rated low because it wasn't what the questioner wanted to hear.
And, of course, we must always bear in mind that perhaps we occasionally deserve the low ratings. It may be an uncomfortable truth that WE need to hear.
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I know the FAQ isn’t really clear on this, but we’ve gone over this dozens of times in the moderator forum:
Answers that receive a 1 rating should be god-awful, unbelievable bad, abusive, insulting answers. They should nearly always be accompanied by an abuse report. They should be that bad!
One's received for advice a questioner simply does not agree with or like SHOULD BE REPORTED.
It is RATINGS ABUSE to rate someone a 1 unless their answer is harmful, abusive, or wholly inappropriate in some other way. If a questioner regularly doles out 1's just because they don't like what they hear moderators will contact them.
I know I just suck it up when I get 1’s sometimes, but you should feel free to report questioner who give you underserved 1s. They should be rating at least 2 unless you told them to go eat rat poison.
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I do agree with you, but you have to remember that ratings don't mean anything. It's just a useless number and no one is going to look down on you for having a 1. Some of the best columnists on this site have straight 1's...
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I agree with you...if I give a 1 it is because the person truly deserved a 1. I am asking for advice, so I am open to all suggestion, but I don't like when people make assumptions about me or what I am talking about and offer judgement that doesn't apply. Thanks for the question.
Jenn
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thank you! I completely agree with that. I've gotten it a few times. I try to give the best advice from a 3rd party perspective with no bias or anything, and if they dont' like what i have to say, then they rate me really low because it wasn't what they wanted to hear. Why don't they just tell us what they want us to say then? Then everything would be just perfect and no one would get any help...i for sure for sure agree with you.
<3 Elle
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some people just cant handle the truth even if its sitting right in front of them with a neon yellow baseball cap (my friend has one of those.. very scary). Sometimes they ask questions to make themselves feel better, but when they get an answer totally disagreeing with what they were planning on doing or did, then they get pissed off and give you a 1 or if they dont like your answer at all (especially if they're sarcastic). But then again, there are times when the advice giver actually deserves a 1 for advice that's totally pointless and not helpful at all. There isn't exactly a way to make people realize that advice can be hurtful and not sugar coated because people in general like to hear nice things rather than things that totally contradict what they actually want to hear.
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