People pestering for rates! (abit of a rant)

I've been getting one person sending me messages asking me to rate their reviews that haven't rated any of mine and aren't on my CoT.

I mean, I have asked a few persons to re-rate some of my reviews that I had written when I was a new member, these weren't the best of quality and changed them later on but at least I read and rated a good few of their reviews as courtesy. What I don't do is send messages around as a matter of course requesting, what it seems, the whole of ciao to specially come and rate my review!

I mean, I don't mind being asked to re-rate reviews if the author has done abit of work to make it better, what I have a problem with is someone just sending messages round getting everyone to rate their reviews.

Rant over.

Anyone feel the same or think that it is indeed alright to do this?

You have a lot of choices:
1. ignore them
2. tell them not to do it - and point out it's against the site rules
3. if it really gets to you, report them.

If I get requests to re-read from people who don't read my reviews, I point out that it's only polite to read other people before asking them to read you for a second time. And if it's no better second time round, I certainly don't upgrade just because they asked.

Actually the user that I received the message from is no longer a registered user; coincidence?

I report it.

il_cacciatore wrote:

Actually the user that I received the message from is no longer a registered user; coincidence?

But the real question is, how long before they turn up again with a new account? People like that are often serial abusers and had their accounts deleted or suspended many times.

How long before they turn up with a new account? Well if it is the same one as I think it is then they are already back with a new one in more or less the same name, hopefully they have learnt a lesson though.

I rather doubt any lessons were learnt at all. The problem I see is that if one person does it widely, other people who maybe don't know the rules, think it's OK and they do the same sort of thing.

There was more than one person doing this on a widespread basis anyway, wasn't there..?

I saw messages from the same person in many people's gb's asking them to go rate their new review they wrote today. Haven't noticed that particular writer anymore BUT I have noticed someone who's quite high up in the list of "most read authors" leaving messages like that in many guestbooks (no I wasn't gb snooping, they just happened to be leavign messages in people's gb's that I just happened to be leaving messages for), which I thought was rather dubious. Funny though, I haven't received any such requests! Lucky me tra la la la