I've long considered the notion that there is such a thing as malicious rating, give or take and more or less - that rates of 9 or below is usually a malicious, nasty thing to do, for some reason - I've considered this to be silly, foolish and stupid on the face of it - but...
it's true that some people, buying into this, have thought that the way to take out something against me, to pay me back for some real or imagined whatever, is to rate my profile, photo, stash poorly. And I have to say. Especially since I don't care a bit about those, for reasons I don't want to interrupt this to go into.
Just - better they take it out on me by clicking little buttons on a screen than by phoning me or mine, by writing letters to the newspaper, by ... hey, this is a public post, I'm not going to give people too many unnecessary ideas. I mean... if that's someone's idea of "malicious behavior", they Need TO GET OUT MORE... (I speak as someone whose relatives know a bit about what I'm talking about)
(And because of that last fact: If this offends anyone on my list... I'm not sorry.)