Is there anyway of me getting rid of jennifer lopez as my expert subject?

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• good can u help me then..lol

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  by bigkado69 on February 22nd, 2007

• lol ty.

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  by bigkado69 on February 22nd, 2007

• What a gross misuse of the point system.

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  by Aristocles on February 28th, 2007

• im still a expert on her .lol.oh well.

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  by bigkado69 on February 28th, 2007

• How is arbritrarily rating up others' answers not misuse?

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  by Aristocles on February 28th, 2007

• Okay, you've convinced me a little. Now I'd call it borderline misuse. For instance, if I spent a while searching for and downrating legitamately bad answers, then everyone would call for my head.

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  by Aristocles on February 28th, 2007

• Well, it's good to see you're consistent! But I am certain that if I were to do as I said, then everyone would go ballistic. And to make it clear, I don't consider a "bad" answer to only be those that are offensive or irrelevant. To me, a "bad" answer is any answer that's "Not Helpful." But that's another day. haha

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  by Aristocles on February 28th, 2007

• No, downrates are just as subjective as uprates. Ideally, both should be taken seriously. However, when users complain about the ratings system, it's only downrates they mention.

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  by Aristocles on February 28th, 2007

• From the link: Andersen777 says, "[I]f the person who answered makes an honest attempt to do so in a good way, why knock them down for it just because "you" do not find it helpful?" My response would be that it's because I'M the one who is given the option of rating! By her reasoning, then why even uprate? Why is it not okay to say "Not Helpful" but it's fine to say "Helpful"? That's inconsistent... Glenn Blaylock says, "[I]f an answer is factually correct, but has nothing to do with the question, it is still not a helpful answer." I agree with this... Everyone in the link says something like, "I only downrate if..." But no one says, " I only uprate if..." I don't go around downrating like mad, but if I see an answer that makes a joke instead of an answer, or answers with two words, then I'll downrate. For example, say I ask, "Who's your favorite President?" Poor answers give just the names, good answers tell us why. The latter is helpful, the former isn't.

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  by Aristocles on February 28th, 2007

• True, you could downrate all of my questions if you thought they were unhelpful. Unhelpful answers should be recognized as such, just as helpful answers could be recognized. But I didn't say I downrate if they're not helpful to ME; I said if they are genuinely unhelpful. Sincerity is an obvious mandate for the rating system, so if you want to go through all of my answers and downrate those that you genuinely believe aren't helpful, then that would be technically okay, but I would consider it borderline misuse. As I said about your actions earlier, to go out of one's way to rate a specific user's answers with the intention to alter the overall rating structure is wrong.

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  by Aristocles on February 28th, 2007

• Wait a minute--- so you're saying that just because the question didn't specifically ask "...and why?" then any 2-word answer is valid?

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  by Aristocles on February 28th, 2007

• (sigh) Well, it's been fun. Honestly. I don't think we're going to find a middle ground to this. For the record, I'm not a troll by any means, but I do downrate two-word answers sometimes. And you're a decent debator, not so much for your reasoning, but for your civility. That's a half-compliment. haha. Closing arguments are yours.

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  by Aristocles on February 28th, 2007

• Oh, and stop editing your comments after you've entered them! (This goes for me and you both.)

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  by Aristocles on February 28th, 2007

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