Purplesage
One Too Many
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In case you didn't know there is a star voting system where forum members can rate classified threads they view. A 5 star rating of "Excellent" is the best and a 1 star rating for "Terrible" is the worse. Most recently I noted that just about all of my classified threads are rated as terrible. In checking my thread rating I noted that the number of votes per thread total from 1 to 3. Since forum members are only allowed to vote on a thread one time I can pretty well conclude that the same individuals are responsible for the negative votes on the majority if not all on my classified threads. This all seems to coincide with a handful of members who over the last couple of months decided to use some of my classified posts for their own personal agenda or for the purpose of sabotaging my ads. They posted rude and condescending remarks criticizing the price I was asking for articles I was selling, complaining about the number of classified posts that I bumped down at the same time and making it known that they had tenure here on the lounge as if to imply their opinion is right and mine is wrong. Coincidentally, one of these individuals also happened to mention my low rating on my classified threads as a reason he would not do business with me. Now I'm pretty sure who is responsible for leaving those negative votes and they are not customers I have personally sold merchandise to. These negative votes were left by spineless cowards with the sole intent of destroying my reputation and sabotaging my classified ads. Their actions are vengeful and petty. It's takes a real brave person to leave a 1 star vote of terrible when you are protected by anonymity and don't have to provide any justification for your vote. This voting system is far from reliable and is being grossly abused by a select few individuals for their own self serving purposes. All you have to do is look at a few of my classified threads over the last 3 or 4 months and you can probably guess who these individuals are. Incidentally, tenure does not always demand respect nor is it always reflective of someone's knowledge. Over the last couple of years I have sold merchandise to several individuals on the forum who have never expressed any complaints to me. So then I ask you what could possibly be the motivation for certain individuals leaving negative votes on my threads other then the unjustified reasons mentioned above?
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