I'm not appealing. I KNOW she'll deny it. The only way I'm appealing is if the appeal goes to a non-biased moderator. SakuraWolf - Dough - Emerald
but why does anyone care about virtual ratings on a minecraft forum? it doesnt get you anything irl. the trophies you get arent REAL trophies.
There is clearly a loophole in the system, here. For example, a friend of mine was rated negatively twice every hour by a player. I would consider this rate abuse. So, this friend reported the player's actions, but the moderator explained that because the ratings were made an hour apart, this isn't defined as rate abuse. In my opinion, this is still just rating somebody constantly because you have something against them, but the rules state otherwise. People find loopholes in the rules and use them to their full advantage. So, say the player rated my friend negatively twice every hour for three hours. That's 6 negative ratings made, but because they were made at different times it is not punishable. TLDR In my opinion, the thread that explains and defines rate abuse needs to be updated not only to clear things up, but also stop some of the loopholes that people find and use for their advantage.
Lol he doesn't belong in that list Exactly, they make it sound like it even matters in our lives or not
Unless it's negative ratings or intentionally giving someone ratings (for example 2 likes) to get a trophy, they can't punish for less than 3.
Are there rating regulations on facebook? Twitter? Instagram? yeah ill just go with those. bye guys!!!!!
I like as much stuff as i want and no problem. At least insta doesn't limit you to 3 f***ing ratings per person per... actually we don't have a time limit here so what the hell.
Eh, I think the only trouble rate abuse causes is when a user rates multiple posts specifically to affect that person's ratings, whether positive or negative, and nothing to do with the specific post. So if a guy says a bunch of rude stuff, I'll dislike the rude stuff they say. If someone says a bunch of awesome stuff, I'll like the cool stuff they say. But if I dislike all of the rude guy's stuff because I don't like him, whether or that specific post was rude, or I like all the stuff the nice guy says whether or not I actually like the content, then that's rate abuse. It's nothing to do with frequency, it's to do with the context in which you rate. In my opinion. I didn't read the other posts on this thread, I'm too lazy, so sorry if someone's already said this.
Regarding towards my post―as of today, I was given an infraction based off a mod's opinion of their "rate abuse". Boy, let me tell you where this certain mod who warned me today is wrong and how they are doing their job in a lousy interactive manner. Instead of just removing the ratings that I gave or simply starting a formal conversation with me, they had instead gave me an instant infraction regarding my actions. It wasn't even my intention towards what this mod so calls it "rate abuse" at all. How am I supposed to know that I had rate abused? I had only liked three posts from a friend in a relative amount of time and gave space between the ratings yet I was warned for such a suitable, easy situation to resolve through pm? This mod could have either: A. Asked me to remove the ratings and discuss why they thought it was considered rate abuse considering the fact that the rules state: "As a rule of thumb staff view 3+ ratings to one person in a relatively short period of time either positive or negative, as rate abuse." What Sean had said, this is just an excuse to show how lazy some of these mods are on showing their capability to handle situations in a proper formal matter but instead, warning someone who wasn't even aware of what they had done wrong. How are people meant to know whether they are breaking rules when there is no defined period of time? (as you can see, I was warned for those 3 ratings I gave in a relative amount of time) or B. Simply remove the ratings. I probably wouldn't even notice or make a big deal out of it but as soon as this infraction came in, I took a step into this situation. I would like the rules to be stated clearly as to what is considered rate abuse "at short period of time" or at least have my infraction removed. Both would work too and it would definitely keep this in mind for not only me, but other users who browse the forums.
