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So, I'm pretty new here on the ol' Vampire Rave, right? I haven't been around all that long, but I like it well enough.



The thing I don't get, though, is this: why are so many people obessed over how their profiles are rated?



Personally, I don't care how people rate my profile. I really don't. Rate me whatever you think is fair. It is your opinion and you are entitled to it. I am not going to go pleading with you for a rerate if you rate me low. I am not going to go batshit crazy designing a profile page in order to cater to getting a good rating from people.



You know what? I'm probably never going to do anything fancy with my profile page. I've bopped around to a few other people's profiles and while some are quite pleasing, more often than not I am beseiged with really, really, really slow load lags because it is bombarded with a series of random, silly images, half which do not load. Dripping blood bars? REALLY? Those are still around? Was it worth clogging up my internets to load those? Really? The background images are really the worst sometimes. The image winds up repeating all over the damn place due to differing screen resolutions and more often than not a text color is used which is virtually impossible to read against that stupid background. Also, I don't like profiles that go on seemingly FOREVER and give me carple tunnel from all the scrolling down I need to do. By the time I get there I am so bored and my wrist hurts that I can no longer even be bothered to rate you. I do NOT want my profile to wind up like this: a wasteland of useless animated GIFs and fantasy images, 15 poems I wrote, miniscroller photo gallery, autoplay music, glitter catchphrases, 20 reasons I am gothier than you (but disguised thinly as something else), clashing colors and ghastly repeating background image. There is such a thing as too much information in a profile. Isn't this why we have the ability to create journals and portfolios in here? As a means of sorting this stuff onto subpages? Re: poems go into journal entries and photos in portfolio?



I don't want a profile that stretches on for miles. Is that so wrong? I like a profile that loads quickly and gives me a brief run down. You don't need to know my life history in my profile (again, what the journal is for). If it takes you more than five minutes to load and read all my profile info, then to me, it is too damn long. Short and to the point, that's how I want to keep mine, but many people tell me that it is "incomplete" and to let them know when it is "finished" and they'll rerate me. Hate to brake it to you, but it IS finished. Maybe I'll add some more text info and maybe one image to later, but really, it ain't gonna get much fancier than what it is. The "default" look of the profile is not that bad to look at, is it? The colors go well and it is visually easy to read, which is what I want, really.



Like it, or don't, just rate me honestly. I can assure you, I will do the same. I hardly ever rate profiles as yet (maybe I'll get into it, but not so much yet), but when I do, it is honest. If you rate me a 10, that does not guarantee a 10 from me, so don't go handing me a 10 unless you really mean it. A real, honest opinion will be appreciated from me, even if it is low. I don't care what my profile number rating is, so long as it is honest.

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Vasilia
18:31 Sep 20 2008

why are so many people obessed over how their profiles are rated?



A profile rating is represents what people think of your profile. like irl your "rating" would be what people think you look like. This is the internet and yea some people will go hey it's only the internet blah blah blah but the internet, to my anyways represents who I am in real life too. So I care for what people rate me. I won't ask for re-rates all the time but I do care.

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I have a confession. As much as I enjoy being all girl-like and such, I am positively, the most messy eater in America. You will never see a sight more un-feminine than me eating. Oh, especially if I'm really hungry and the food is really good that I I'm not taking any care. Then look out.

My god, I turn into a horrible mess, you'd swear I just tore the aorta out of some small mammal by the food-gore on my face, fingers, and immediate area. Seriously, I ought to lay plastic down before eating fried chicken. Crunchy skin and meaty bits go flying every which way. Nevermind the pastas! Sauce all over my chin, somehow also manages to get my forehead, splatters all over the table.

I do try to take care when snacking. Crunchy snacks especially like crackers and chips, it never fails will brittally collapse after I bite into them, crumbs and fragments all over the place. So, I take care and pick out only the bite sized pieces, therefore the whole thing goes right into my mouth and less crumby mess. People who watch me eat these snacks, choosing carefully my next bite, think I am a psychopath.

The weird thing is though, that as stained as my tablecloth, face and fingers will get, I rarely ever get my clothes. It's a goddamn miracle.