| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | irishgit (138)
04/08/2008 | I notice that the advent of the comment feature has greatly reduced the hate mail I used to get, except for the occasional knuckledragger who feels compelled to take issue with something on my user page or wants to challenge me to a fight....
A real fight, seriously....
The message goes something like: "You punk bitch can come get your ass kicked. I live in South Bug Stump, Tennessee and you can find me in the Pigs Knuckle Tavern every evening. I'll teach you a lesson you Yankee bastard."
Now, as oscar says, the hatemail usually comes in the comment feature. That makes it way easier to determine what someone's mad about.
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 | oscargamblesfro (76)
04/08/2008 | 3.5 Sometimes this is good, depending on who it is...most of my hate mail comes in comments and subsequent reviews... I f you don't mind a little RIA flashback and a true story, perhaps the funniest hate mail I ever got was a few years ago when I gave Ricky Schroder a 1 on a celebrity conservatives, not because he's actually a very conservative Republican, but just because I hated that kid, and then Drummond ( remember him?.. good writer) wrote just "Who?", and someone got real angry and ordered us to go fight in Iraq in the next review...
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 | Automatt (29)
04/07/2008 | The presentation of this feature could be improved a little, but this item should be on another list now.
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 | CanadaSucks (45)
09/04/2005 | Here comes the hate mail!
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 | twinmom101 (31)
09/04/2005 | This is a mixed bag for me. Although there are some reviewers I have genuinely enjoyed messaging back and forth with, most of the time I dread seeing a personal message waiting for me. More often than not, it is some drooler with a bug up his ass about some comment I made two years ago. I used to message back and forth a lot but now, with my limited time, I'm happier rating what I want to rate and moving on.
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 | Gentle Jude (23)
02/15/2005 | This is a good idea if used properly. If people want to encourage and leave positive messages to someone else, well then, this is a good idea. But people don't always do that. Some people leave nasty messages to other viewers or they can even pressure another person to alter their comments. It can even be used as a manipulation tool or to even intimidate a rater into not writing on a certain subject. It is a good idea, but it needs monitoring eg the idea of blocking unwanted messages, or even having strict disciplinary procedures against a person who leaves an abusive or threatening message. It would be good if RIA could trace a rater's IP address (the one who sent the threatening message) and give the victim the choice of making a legal prosecution. It is a criminal offence to leave any threatening message.
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 | RebelYell1861 (9)
05/23/2003 | This has proven to be pretty interesting.
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 | kamylienne (77)
04/02/2003 | This is a feature that can be easily abused, but so far I've been pleasantly surprised at the personal messages I've gotten so far. Most of them are from people who DON'T agree with me, but respect and appreciate the differing point of views, and vice versa. It's great to talk civilly to someone who doesn't agree with you, and then you tend to find that they're not that much different than you, anyhow. Just because they disagree with you, even on most things, it doesn't mean that they're bad people, and once individuals realize that, then a lot of nice conversations can start. I didn't come on here to meet people, but I'm always up for pleasant and intelligent conversation.
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 | ChunkyLover53 (0)
02/10/2003 | This could be good as long as it's not abused. People who want to get to know each other better can chat with each other. If someone has a problem with another poster, than they can just it over in PM's rather than clogging up the boards with their fights. The downside is that some people are immature jerks who feel the need to attack people who don't agree with them. I think we should be able to block certain posters from sending us PM's, if they feel the need to ause this function.
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 | lukskywlkr. (3)
12/25/2002 | This is a good idea, but only if everyone follows a certain bit of etiquette when sending messages. I enjoy it when someone sends me a message and says they agree with me, or they know where I'm coming from, but I don't want someone sending me one bawling me out because I said something they didn't happen to agree with. This is America, and I have a right to speak my opinion like everyone else. I don't get on here and curse, and I always try to give my absolute honest opinion, which is what it's supposed to be about anyway, right?
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 | CastleBee (81)
08/26/2002 | Since being added a few months or so back, this feature seems to be going down hill fast. When used as it should be - for the friendly exchange or ideas or comments - it can be a nice addition to the page. However, when used as a tool to harass, insult, and otherwise send personal nasty notes I could just as well do without this option. I would hope that RIA would at least consider adding a blocking feature.
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| LoneUSFullHouseFan (3)
07/20/2002 | This is where you stage your personal disagreements. "We have this option so we do not need to air dirty laundry in public, which is why I am not in favor of rating each other on public lists.
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 | Molfan (57)
07/08/2002 | I enjoy this feature myself. I only use it on occasion but it is nice if I want to say something in private to another poster I can do so. Sometimes I think things should remain private if it is directed at one person.I like the fact if I want to make a personal comment to one person I can and it does not have to be public.{just for the record the few times I do write to someone else it is usually to say something nice} The person getting a comment can chose if they want to read it or not, and it can be deleted.
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 | Solenoid DH (19)
07/07/2002 | What I have to say really has nothing much to do with the question, but I wanted to take the liberty to make this announcement to rate-it-all users: Still high on the list of "most helpful" raters is Errol. Errol was my younger brother, and he died very suddenly in mid-April. It was a big shock to all of us. I stayed off of rate-it-all for a few weeks afterwards, because Errol enjoyed sharing his thoughts here and looking at this site kept reminding me of him. But I'm feeling better now. I would encourage any of you to look up his comments once in a while. He was a very dedicated Christian, a great brother, an awesome friend, and he had a unique sense of humor. He was only 41 when he died.
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 | Snoopy (3)
03/21/2002 | This feature is fine as long as people are using it to send civil messages to each other. However, I have receved a few very rude messages from people just because I don't like their favorite TV show or I like their least favorite singer or whatever. This is NOT why I come to RateItAll. I come here to share my opinions and talk to intelligent people, not listen to some whiny loser lash out at me because of my opinions. I think we should have the option of blocking certain people from sending us messages.
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| Talena (0)
11/07/2001 | I don't think this feature is such a good idea. This site is a site about peoples' opinions, and a lot of the time opinions seem to clash. People begin to send nasty messages to each other based on the comments they posted, which I think is really wrong. I myself have gotten some messages swearing at me and calling me all kinds of names just because they didn't like the comments I posted...this is totally unfair, I don't do that to other people. I think the site should remove this option...it really serves no pratical use other than to threaten other people with different opinions.
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| faniam (0)
11/01/2001 | This is a good idea--comment to a reviewer personally---but this could also be bad and get out of controll.
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 | TheFreak (3)
10/24/2001 | OK-I know it seems weird for me to be rating this NOW, but I want to give y'all an update on how it's working. Yes, I've made some good friends through personal messages. Yes, I've had some cool political debates through personal messages. Yes, personal messages are informative. But I've got some problems with them, too. For one thing, it takes me hours, days, or weeks to get a reply to my messages. I can't just talk directly to my buddies, or carry on a long, dumb conversation with them when we rate stuff. For another thing, I'm forever getting hate mail! Some dude even called me a moron, and I've had dozens of other idiots send me stuff along those lines, too. If there was some more direct way to speak to them, I'd be able to directly defend myself and my buddies might also jump to their Freak's defense if I were especially nice to them that day |-) I think a chat room and/or message board would be nice, don't you? Take care, everyone!
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 | abichara (60)
09/06/2001 | The ability to send personal messages to other users is another really good feature that Rate-It-All has added to the site. I do enjoy getting personal responses from people who either want to see my side of the story or who just want to see what the person behind the words is all about. I like hearing from people of different perspectives. Listening to people who come from all over the country and even the world has been something that Rate-It-All has made possible through the advent of this great new medium called the internet.
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 | mikki (0)
08/06/2001 | I love this feature!It has been a wonderful one.I especially love it because it allows me to share websites about topics that interest me with other people.
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 | ErictheFederalist (3)
06/14/2001 | Rate It All makes us all oftenly feel like one, big family. Like in all good & close families it's always great to have regular contact with the other members! :-)) It also feel good to get feedback on the things you write. It's a good feeling to know that other people care about your opinion & that you don't do anything in vain! In the same way it feels great to be able to "give a hug" to other 'members' by telling them how much you appreciate their comments! I love to make people happy! :-))
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 | Aurielle (18)
06/09/2001 | I think that would be a great idea, because many times if someone doesn't agree with you, they'll say that your comment was not helpful, then make a comment of their own that makes stabs at your opinion. It would be better if it could be settled out of the commentaries, in a sort of personal message system.
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 | artbuf (0)
06/07/2001 | I love this new feature. It is great to be able to let someone know you agree with them...It's even more fun to berate someone you DON'T agree with...but I try not to do that. It's nice to hear from someone who has an insightful differenece of opinion, and a nice healthy discussion can grow out of it. Good job, guys!
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 | Spiralingmarce (0)
04/22/2001 | I've tried to e-mail a flamer girl who told anyone who dissented that she would convince them...still waiting to be convinced about Britney Spears.
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| chcknpedals (0)
03/24/2001 | I think this would be an excellent feature because as I read through the comments and opinions there are things I'd like to say to certain people about theirs.
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| jen_now (0)
03/02/2001 | I don't want this at all. If someone disliked one of my reviews I would not want them sending me email. I think that others are entitled to their opinion but I don't want my inbox overloaded. I think we all deserve our privacy and if someone dosen't like what we say they should simply post their own opinion.I don't like however when people do this but in a rude way.
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| Wes D. (0)
02/02/2001 | Not a big deal for me. I'm not looking to make friends with people who also think that Shawshank Redemption is a good movie.
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 | MedgarEvers (14)
12/22/2000 | It would be another advantage of the site to directly share opinions with other reviewers and get to know them if we can somehow learn who they are and how to connect with them. And sure, it can be annoying, but if the site can figure out a way for reviewers to receive messages only if they choose, it would be a nice asset for the site-
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 | PoorOldEdgarDerby (4)
10/31/2000 | I would say this would be a good feature as long as the messages sent to me were only sent to some sort of a personal page on this site, and not sent to my E-mail account! Everyone already gets enough spam and the last thing I want is to get mail from a total stranger and possibly a total freak in my personal E-mail box. All that's gonna make me do is get annoyed with rateitall for allowing it. There should also be some sort recourse for people who just send harrassing inappropriate messages. Someone who you could forward them to for review.
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 | magellan (153)
10/30/2000 | Yeah it would be cool - I'm not sure how much I would use this feature, however. Though it might allow me to meet some young ladies...
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| Govinda (0)
10/30/2000 | Yes! This should be added as soon as possible. Sometimes I read a good review and want to ask the person who left it a question, other times I read an idiotic review and want to tell the person who left it to keep their mouth shut.
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