to rate or not to rate

Hmm, so I thought, what the heck? And I signed up to get my diary rated. I’ve been meaning to talk about that for awhile… meaning to tell you how wrong I thought it was that people rate diaries… and that I’m a complete hypocrite for getting mine rated anyway.

(if you want to see how *Reviewer*Chik* rated my diary, go to her diary… hard, ehh?)

But back to the fact that I have a problem with it. I didn’t discuss this before, for fear she’d rate my diary based on that entry, and well I’m not sure that would make a good impression. However, if you think about it, a diary reflects the person. Or at least it should. Maybe not in appearance, or maybe so. It’s whatever the diarist WANTS it to be, and I really don’t think it’s anyone’s business telling us how we rated. One diary might rate well according to one standard, while to another rate it may be horrible. I read a few of those ratings, and do you know they take off points if you don’t use “good” colors? Or have a lack of colors? I fear that Sean would rate very poorly for that reason, and yet I hold his diary in great esteem. In a nutshell… I don’t know how I feel about this entire rating thing.

For awhile there I was pondering starting a rating diary myself. I mean, I’m always impatiently online waiting for someone to write… I could use my time to do something. (although if I miss a few days I’m swamped with entries to read… and would have absolutely not time for rating) But then, do I want to rate? If I disagree with it, that would be so hypocritical it’s not even funny. Any opinions? I just don’t think I could deal with myself if I went all nuts and said, “well, your diary sucked because it wasn’t interesting, you can’t spell, and I have no idea what you’re talking about”. You know?

Right.

OH, GUESS WHO’S ON! GRRRRRRR. And that’s now in my profile. Right at the end. So if you’re talking to me, and you look at my profile on AIM… you know what it means by “GRRR”. It means I really don’t like you, Andy.

I’m off to be

~swept away trying to restrain myself from cyber-bitch-slapping someone~

@~>~>-dreamergrrl

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Oh yeah…rating diaries is so dumb. I looked at your review, and the things she gives points based on really have nothing to do with the person writing the entries. I don’t agree with a lot of her stuff anyway…based on the points she awards in various situations, it’s quite obvious she knows very little about good web design…oh well. 😉

i think those are dumb… i guess i don’t write in my diary to have it rated and i know that somedays my entries are just meaningless to anybody else. i can’t believe that some people have so much time on their hands to do that kind of stuff. if you were really going to rate a diary honestly and truly you’d read every entry. and personally i love your diary b/c i always keep coming back to it!

Hey man, my colors are great! I thought about getting my diary rated once, but then I had the same thoughts as you. It just seems stupid.