STOP THE UNKNOWN RATE RIPPER
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RE: RE: STOP THE UNKNOWN RATE RIPPERQuote: Originally Posted by gogant To make it simple, OP should just eliminate the rating option. I noticed an unexpected low rating on one of my poems which brought the rating from 10 down to 6.5............I wish I knew why someone would bother leaving a rating at all, if they didn't like the poem.....makes no sense. In my thinking, it is a tool for some jealous poet to try, in this childish manner, to make another poet feel dejected. I suggested to OP that there should be a button for "I like this poem" and one for "I didn't like this poem" instead of the unreliable rating system... I don't really care about ratings...but your idea of adopting youtube like and dislike poll is a good one. |
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RE: Re: STOP THE UNKNOWN RATE RIPPERQuote: Originally Posted by Jaddenblade Consider...what is a poem? Is it not a form of art, and as such an individual expression? If so, who is to judge the "rating" of another's poem? By rating, we say it is better which is another way to assign value. I have had several very highly rated poems. But does that mean they have more "value" than another's? Certainly not. I write because it is in me to write. I write with one voice because that is my voice (though I might have found another with my latest poem, lol). What I write is of no greater value than my eldest son's poem which i posted here as well. Nor are they of any greater value than another other piece of expression on this site. We see a high number and we are elated because we feel validation, which is only natural. When we see a low number, we feel hollow, empty, as if our work is somehow lessened. For all of us, our work is every bit as valid as the next. Our voice, individual as it is, is every bit as valuable than the next. What hurts me most about the "rate ripper" (lol) is that he or she is causing us to feel somehow less. Remember one thing, though when someone rates one of our poems, they simply state how much they "liked" it, which by nature is a subjective evaluation based on a subjective human. What they say about themselves speaks volumes. So go ahead Rate Ripper, rip all my poems with your low ratings. I stand in defiance to you and welcome your whimpering. I welcome the fact you haven't won yet and are doing your very best to ensure you do. I expect my poems to be tanked. "Go ahead punk. Make my day" Because each time you ruin someone's rating, you are ruining their heart. As for me, you may touch my rating, but you can't touch my will. I stand before you as your Cause....how does it feel to be The Effect? Oh, and when you laugh because my poems are rated low, I'm laughing even louder  .I agree with what you've said Jaddenblade I'm far from a great poet but my heart and soul go into my poems so though the rate ripper may lower my rates . S/he can't rip away what for me is in my soul,my words come from that wellspring of emotion, bought and paid for through life experiences.. I live to write and live because I write ..Quite literally.my writing was sometimes the only thing that kept me alive when I wanted to crawl into a hole and die.No one can ever take that which lives in me , ratings or not Last edited by LenaM 12-02-2010 at 12:24:52 PM |
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RE: STOP THE UNKNOWN RATE RIPPERJaded I read you; I too recently had this happen too. Although I did figure out who the person was doing it. See I did an experiment, when I posted my poem, I check no for allow this poem to be rated; then I went back after several days and click on yes allow this poem to be rated; immediately I had 3 of my poems that were rated a 10 drop and there was only one person who left a comment on each of those poems...hence the guilty not be accused; they know I know who they are but why they engaged in this childish behavior I don't know. |
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RE: STOP THE UNKNOWN RATE RIPPERI like your post and I think that's a good idea. I too want to add that perhaps if people want they always have the option to place a rating by writing it in the comment. |
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.