Muscatine

  Thanks for the info, Logic!    I appreciate it!

  Tom & Dave,

  I don't know how the ratings are done, I don't understand them either.  I probably have the rating I do because I talk too much.  I've been told that many times.  I didn't ask for the title, I am who I am & I mean what I say.  You guys are as honest as I am.  I don't get it either.

   I have NEVER cared about "labels or job positions" w/ anyone I have ever met, and I work w/ people that have lots of initials behind their names.  I could care less about those initials, if they weren't decent.  I didn't ask for the "mentor label", guys.   I don't feel that I deserve it. 

  I simply signed into a sight that I felt that I could make a connection w/ my neighbors.  I want the neighborhood I had when I was growing up...a connection.  To give & take advice from my friends.  Period.  I don't feel as though I am "A God", or superior.  OMG...far from it.  

  I didn't choose the label or format & I don't know the criteria.    

The rankings are a numbers game.  The more a person posts the ranking changes regardless the quality of post or person.  Robert (of NL staff) said they are working on a different method of ranking but along with everything else they are working on that may be a future item of low priority.  Sadly when they change it no matter what they come up with for a ranking method it will not reflect anything about the poster except a perception instead of a number or perhaps a combination of both.  I generally don't pay attention to the rankings since I know how it is done and am fairly certain mine won't change much since I'm normally quiet in here, moreso just an active reader.