New idea concerning weekly medals and ratings.

[Brtnboarder495]

With the large amount of people recently giving lower rates to other member's coasters just to get their coaster on top and get a medal is getting REALLY annoying. So, perhaps creating a system that allows you to either rate OR upload coasters every week. This way uploaders who basically are always competiting, would not be able to rate their competition for that week. I think that this idea would make rates truer to the rater's actual thoughts rather than rating lower just to claim a gold medal. It should be able to work with the same system that resets the coasters everyweek, right? Just a thought, that could really kill off this issue here. Perhaps instead of blocking a member who uploaded a coaster from rating, it should block the IP or gateway, that way one would not be able to create multiple accounts to smurf and then still lower their competitors ratings.

What issue? I may be a tough rater, but I *DO* rate fairly. My rates when I don't have a coaster uploaded are no less harsh than when I do.

Good idea but what if people want to rate more then one coaster that week?

[gouldy]

I have to disagree with Tyler, I do believe that it happens, whilst its probably not a major issue, it is an annoyence. I think brtnboarder has come up with a pretty good idea there, I have no idea about all the coding and stuff but sounds like it would work in theory and I am all for the idea [:)]

[hyyyper]

Member should just be honest, people who downrate, or uprate for now reason should be get punishment or something like that, maybe an idea, every coaster will be counted the 10 best ratings (who are best explained, not how high rated), and make a rating out of that.

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[Dirk_Ermen]

but it should actually only count for the simulation you upload on, so not if you upload an nl ride that you can't rate rct...

But it sounds like an pretty good idea to me, green light from me! [launch]

Yes but surely this would mean less tracks will begetting rated, and it is annoying when your track isnt rated. It is a good idea, but i think lack of ratings would dtart to bug me. Thats the only thing i can fault with this system. Otherwise, its great man. [:D]

[Brtnboarder495]

Yea, less tracks may be rated, that is the downside, however the number of members is growing, so I think that it can be compensated for.

Tyler, I never used your name in my first post, I wasn't targeting you.

Javi, that is why I meant that once you rate a coaster for a week, then you cant upload any coaster after that rate for that week (or session) only


hyper, unfortunetely not everyone is going to be honest and perfect, history demonstrates it. Making a category out of who rates the best isnt exaclty a great idea IMO, because the uploader loses "control" of the coaster's karma, and then its up to the raters. If they are in a bad mood they would underrate and type minamimly, which is what my idea is trying to solve.

Rollergod, you could rate more than one coaster per week. I meant that you could either rate OR upload coaster[s] for that week session. You could upload multiple coasters or rate multiple coasters. By doing this uploaders would not be able to cripple their competition for medals for the week. Its like being judged at a science fair, the participants are not allowed to judge each others projects, obviously because some would be evil and downrate eachothers projects. I know its a community and it shouldnt have to come down to this, but obvioulsy it has become an issue that is still growing, and IMO needs to be silenced.

Gouldy, thanks for the support too. I have no idea of the coding (unfortunetely) and the time frame for the mods, admins and the slapster himself. Seeing as most have their hands tied up, I doubt this feature would be added anytime soon, but at least I know its somewhere at the back of their brains.

I guess thats a good idea but don't talk to us talk to WWS

[Oscar]

like you said not any time soon, I've read and thought about it, I have my own ideas on how to go at this but nevertheless, it's unethical to not allow people to rate others when they upload their own as it is unethical for them to downrate others when they upload. it's a touchy situation, we'll see.

Tyler knows it was him, so he decided to blame himself before you did Brtn

[Dirk_Ermen]

i was thinking of the idea and i though as that it only would count on not rating on coasters in the top 10. So the 10 top highest rated coasters (per simulation) That you can't rate those when you upload an ride. Cause most people only would downrate just to get the medal, so if you lock then the top 10 highest rated rides. They can't downrate those...

[coolbeans326]

I think that Tylor and DJ are excused, but I hate it when you get low rates for no reason it really pisses me off, I've been thinking about not uploading anymore because getting both a bad rate and no explanations is like a big,"Thanks for the piecce of crap, thecool326" And I'm thinking, why the hell did I try and put in all that extra work if no one was even going to appreciate it? Or take the time and explain what to do better. A I don't like it, or a that was cool followed by 5's and 6's on a good or decent coaster that at leasts deserves 7 really, really pisses me off. What the hell happened to the coaster world?

If you see a bad rate like "Thanks for the piecce of crap, thecool326" you need to report it to one of the staff members for anything to be done. If you don't tell anyone about it how is anyone going to do anything about it?

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[Oscar]

Cork it Javixxxxx, you were wrong in that instance and still wrong today.

Owned.....jk

As to my opinion of this proposition: It's a noble idea, but like someone said, there would be fewer ratings, and there are only a few people who do rate down others' tracks when they have uploaded their own. The ratings that may be taken away are some that could keep people from receiving a medal because they are short on rates.

Or people could finally grow up and stop worrying about other peoples OPINIONS and also stop worrying about the competition.

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[coolbeans326]

Or people could finally grow up and...stop worrying about the competition

what does that have to do with growing up? Winning means something to people like me, because we aren't as great of a designer as you. But some one who already knows he has the skill, and has won hundreds of times, it doesn't mean anything. You have to put yourself in the first persons perspective [;)]

i thoght it was like the staff who rated for contest

Sorry to be late on getting to this thread, but I have an idea.

If the user gets more than a certain # of reasonable rating reports per time unit (week, month, etc.), they get banned or points get taken away, or upload privilidges removed, etc.

[Brtnboarder495]

Mods/Admins are already banning members, and most seem to not mind the points.

Sorry I too am late on this -- but I actually think that there is no way to really control when users rate relative to when they upload rides, etc., BUT ... should a user be caught lowering rates on other rides to make their own more competitive without proper explanation in their rates (for example using two liners filled with crap) they should be spanked severely here -- possibly with a public flogging added for good measure.