I'm not talking about posters who are horse's patooties . There's far more of them around than I'd even like to think of. I'm talking about an organized attack on someone who simply wasn't like for one reason or another. It had nothing to do with their posts, which were informative and very good. Some people just didn't like them. Perhaps this person had a disagreement with one of them.

The rating system is to rate threads and the information contained within. Not to rate personalities.

There's a bunch of people who I would actually avoid, and a few, which after taking it off line, have become friends. I never would even think of rating their threads negatively simply because I, at one point, couldn't stand to read a word of what they wrote.

BTW - I've only had one person on ignore ever - the person with whom I now have a civil relationship.

I agree that a very small group of people ruined it for the rest of the membership. However, until RP decides to get rid of the troublemakers or they decide to grow up and get a real live non-cyber-life, the best option, IMHO, it to keep the rating system off.

I guess we're just going to keep on looking at this issue differently - you're saying that it's ok to rate a thread based upon the person posting, and I'm saying that I don't care who posts as long as it gets me more points, miles or information I need. It's 5 stars in my book. If they post a stupid useless topic, or if it insults another person THAT thread should be rated 1 star. Not all of them.