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Originally Posted by horatio  I guess if your goal is to help the lazy people as much as possible, then you're right. Ratings are much more useful than comments. I personally am not too lazy to ignore comments, though... |
I'm not trying to make it easier on the lazies, I'm hoping to make it easier on the hard working simfile artists. They need feedback, they need the rating on there.
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Originally Posted by horatio My issue with that is it doesn't help the people who do like keyboard files. I agree that they are worthless to me, but to me that means I have no business rating it at all. |
Well that sucks for you. But if YOU don't value them then YOU are giving an honest rating if you rate low.
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Originally Posted by horatio If I'm downrating keyboard files, then the keyboard files I didn't download will have a higher average rating. |
If you are struck somehow, that your rating alone will totally destroy a good keyboard sim's existance, then you are overestimating one vote. Just like the arguments about someone who votes low on you just to be an ass. Overall if your sim is good, then it will get good rates, IF people rate.
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Originally Posted by horatio They might not be the better keyboard files, though... I would have no idea. Furthermore, I am likely to piss off at least a couple keyboard sim artists, and why would I want to do that? |
Giving bad ratings on stuff that you've the right to give bad ratings on can do that. If someone put their work on here and can't take a low rate, then fuck them, simple as that. If they ask you "why you throw 2?" Simple answer, "I don't enjoy keyboard files." There's nothing wrong or dishonest about that.
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Originally Posted by horatio That gives me another idea, though. How about giving users the ability to classify songs? They could do stuff like fill in the blanks for simfiles that don't have pad/keyboard correctly labeled, don't have the difficulties available, etc. That would be much more useful than giving it a rating of utter crap. The simfile poster could have the ability to throw out the incorrect categorizations. |
You're just getting way too complicated now. This is unnecessary. I've asked before that it require both in order to post... like that you type out a comment then you choose a rating number. And when you rate it posts both the comment and the rating. This way you aren't left without either one. But other than that, this suggestion of yours is reaching WAY too far. Camel through the eye of a needle and all that.