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Originally Posted by Phuzion  We will not force people to rate sims. Ever.
If we did, people wouldn't be issuing ratings that they truly stand behind. They'd just rate it with whatever their mouse landed on, just to get the rating process done with.
Basically, it works like this: If you force people to do something, they usually don't give a shit about it. If you use a good method to encourage people to do something, they tend to take a lot more care when they make their decisions, and in general, the final quality is much higher. |
Like I said, the 'requirement' thing was a LOOSE idea. Fact is that offering an incentive for this would end with the exact same turn up, people rating/commenting like total dumbasses. But there ought to be some type of policing for such a thing, particularly member based reports. Which would, like I've stated before, weed out the asshattery after a while, leaving a healthier community. I mean this site is only seen by many as free hosting and by others a plague to be avoided. Something needs to be done about many problems, which would almost ALL be fixed by an active and productive community. More comments/rates means less shit on the server. One way or the other it should definitely happen.
Silliest crap ever = when someone IMs you that your file was good and leaves no comment/rate.
Step one, you ought not be able to rate without a comment, and if you are just committing douchery in the comment then the rate should be removed and an infraction delivered. SIMPLE. This is how anti-leeching comment/rate policies would work. You don't contribute, you download, you don't comment/rate EVER, you are a parasite. Why should this be allowed?