Chess Ratings and Postings

Originally posted by RahimK
Do any of you guys check people ratings when reading their posts or am I the only one?

I don't always do it but with someone new I check out their Rhp rating and then assign a value to their postings. So if someone writes something which I don't agree with I check out their rating and then determine if the post is alright or bad.

Some people go on and ...[text shortened]... u look at their rating, it's so low. Yet they want you to believe they are so great at chess.

I almost always check it with an unfamiliar poster. There are some people such as TonyTiger where I pay special attention every time I see one of their posts.