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I searched for a thread that brought this idea to the table, and I didn't find one. I didn't look super hard though, so if there's another post like this, I apologize. Ratings should be optional because most people "skip" them already by clicking on four stars. I know that unless a level strikes me as AMAZING, I'll just give it four stars. If ratings were optional, I think levels would start to get more accurate ratings. I realize tagging is optional but is a broken system as well. What I propose is to make it actually require effort to rate a level. For example, click a button like hearting, rate it and then click yes on a conformation screen. This way only the people who truly believed the level deserved this rating would rate. This is particularly true with amazing levels. Even if they are literally better than the Media Molecule levels that shipped with the game, they still tend to have four stars because that's the default. These levels deserve a five. Another example of this is the terrible levels. Now, I know there are players in the bowels of the community that actually enjoy floaty jump survivals and the like, but these people don't care to rate levels. The only reason they rate it four stars is because it's quicker. If rating were to be optional, this sort of level would be rated much lower. This is because only the ones who care (incidentally, these are the same people who realize floaty jumps suck) would rate it. I understand that hearts are given out optionally by people and terrible levels still have hearts. That just goes to show the "lemmingness" of most of our community. I'm not saying this idea would fix the cool levels page; it would merely sober up the ratings a little.

2010-05-20 05:59:00 Author: KablooieKablam Posts: 364

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I do agree, it wouldn't stop spitefull little kids going out of their way to rate it down if they felt like it, but I know I am a bit of a culprit of just going "yeah yeah yeah circle circle circle circle...come on...". I won't tag incorrectly but unless I was asked to play the level specifically (F4F) or it was just a great level, then i'll just bypass any thought that goes into it and just rate 4 stars So yeah, I agree with making it one step harder to rate levels, in an effort to make it streamlined and easy the integrity of the system has been ruined. Also remember the heart system is supposed to act like a 'favourites' list, where you can heart levels to find them again later, it was never really intended as a tool to give extra 'kudos' to creators as such.

2010-05-20 08:41:00 Author: Asbestos101 Posts: 1114

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