No More Ratings Swaps!

The Squid blog had a post yesterday, which brought up an issue facing Squidoo. There appears to be a growing problem with exchanging ratings for lenses. This practice is frowned upon because it tends to negate the value of star ratings on Squidoo. If everyone has a 5-Star Rating what is the point of the ratings system?

Squidoo has announced that this practice will no longer be acceptable and in fact may hurt your lens rankings going forward, so please take caution when rating lenses. It is not a problem for you to rate a lens at the request of another lensmaster, but please do not swap a 5 for a 5. Rate the lenson its own merit not because you received a 5. Rate the lens for its value to the community as a whole. I tend not to rate lenses at all until I can rate them with a 5, but it is up to you to develop your own criteria for rating lenses.

So let's stop the swapping of ratings and lensroll's