How do YOU deal out your bones?

[The Saucepan Man]

I don't really see any point in rating anyone anything other than a 1 or a 5. Either I really like someone's posts and rate them a 5, or someone really annoys me and I rate them a 1. Anything in between doesn't really move me enough to bother rating.

I have rated 22 people: 21 5's and one 1.

Some of my early 5's were for pretty trivial reasons, like for people who helped me out when I was new to the site. But, generally they have been borne out since.

Like GaladrieloftheOlden, the 1 rating was a person who had just joined, started a thread and then got abusive when told politely that it might be moved. I don't think that they have posted since. Generally, though, when I am tempted to rate someone with a 1, I hold back in case the post that has annoyed me is a "one off". And, usually, it is.

Does anyone know for sure whether it's true that ratings are weighted more heavily the higher the rater's number of posts? It certainly makes sense, because my weighted average would otherwise have been mathematically impossible at times. If true, it's rather annoying as, if I had known, I would have waited a bit before rating people so that it counted for more.

Edit: I was just going to rate someone else with a 1 and found that they had switched their rating off. How disappointing. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

[ May 09, 2003: Message edited by: The Saucepan Man ]