Quote by Sheqel*remembers
AnimeOnline's failure with the rating system*
no, there will not be a rating system on Minitokyo.
well, I'm a member at AO, too..
I rarely post in their forums, but I regularly post my new wall works in the galleries. :)
i second Sheq's opinion on AO's rating system failure.
the rating system would simply sharpen the unhealthy competition among members. A very good wall can be brought down by
some unresponsible members who post some spamming stuff as a comment and simply rate the wallpaper 1.00 out of 10.00.
This is very much unfair. Of course, this action can be reported directly to the mods, but that means more and more work
for them. Not to mention the subjectivity of a wallpaper rating system. Some people might think that giving a 6.00 rate
is average, and anything above it as good, or extremely good, but the rest of the members might think that the
submission doesn't deserve a 6.00 rating, by lots of other reasons.
ShiNN : yes, indeed, the fav system is going to the wrong direction, and the rally to get the most friends are a new
developing habit of the members, but instead of turning into a totally unfamiliar new system, why don't we just
improve the current available system?
This is my idea :
The current system can be improved in some ways... I think the best thing to deal with the mass of the instant-favers
nowadays is by seniority judging.
Okay, I haven't thought much about the details, but this is the main idea:
A member submits a gallery item, if he/she got a fav from a higher level member, the fav would have a bigger effect (or weight) on the overall scoring
point of the submission compared to a fav given by a lower leveled member than the submitter. That means, the fav
would need to have a certain scoring point.
The scoring point of a fav can also be determined by the length of the comment that the fav'er give. The longer the
comment, the higher the scoring point.
Basically, this would mean two things : either the submission becomes popular because
it's a high-quality submission, or it's becoming popular because people make lots of comments (as a sign of
significant public interest) on it.
One of the scenario that I have as an example would be :
- A lv 5 member submits an abstract wallpaper. A lv 50 member give a comment on the submission, it's a long, and constructive comment, but no fav.
- A different lv 5 member submits an ecchi wallpaper. Two lv 10 members and One lv 2 member give fav to the submission with
minimal commenting.
- The result is that the former mentioned member's submission is higher rated than the latter... resulting in
'bumping' the submission to a more recogniseable state by public, if sorted by overall rating or scoring.
- If the scenario were to happen in the current system, the latter would be a more popular because of ecchiness-fav hype, and the former would be effortlessly abandoned because it received
no favs at all.
This system also answers a related thread about 'Benefits that higher leveled
members have'. This way, higher leveled members can be more active in giving constructive commentings, and
n00bs can gain the proper criticism to advance.
This system, too.. would have some controversy and flaws as a side-effect... but
I am not able to pinpoint what exactly, so feel free to add your thoughts or ideas about this. It's not a perfect
system, but I believe we can do a lil brainstorming about it...
my 2 cents :)
