Rules of Engagement
Personally I hate the 1-10 rating system on Cherry Tap. It is bullshit and too complicated. That and super special people who payout too much money to the rocket scientists who run this site having the ability to rank 11’s… Which at best is a 10% improvement over a 10. It also adds some ratings inflation, but given the hininess of the site it probably does not mean much… But I suspect not one person who runs CT has taken a statistics class.
It should be like the stash ratings… thumbs up and thumbs down. The super special people who pay more, should have their ratings equal to two thumbs up. That would actually mean something statistically.
So we have ratings and that is the way of it. I appreciate 10’s and in turn I will always give a 10 back… usually more, as I surf though a profile and like the pictures. If for some reason the person is exceptionally fuggly, has limited pictures or god awful pictures… I will give their profile a 10. That is how I roll.
I long ago gave up the giving anything less than a 10. Mostly because the ratings don’t mean anything and people seem to like 10’s more than 8’s. If I like a picture or the person they get 10’s. If I don’t…
There are assholes and newbs on CT that feel they need to give pictures bad ratings. For example my display pic is pretty nifty, most people give it 10’s. Some (mostly women…go figure) decide to throw really bad ratings… Why? I do not know… believe it or not that pic is of me and I set up the shot. The only thing I did not do is snap the picture. My photoshopped version is much better, but for web purposes the raw version is what I have posted. Either way most people seem to like the picture and rank accordingly.
To deal with these assholes I have taken the premise of mutually assured destruction to heart. I roll to their profile and rank ever picture and the profile itself lower than what they rated me. Then I block their profile. That too is how I roll.
I endeavor to be a nice guy, but I will not accept rudeness from people I do not know. Be it on the web or in the real.
