I agree, but I don't like seeing people get punished for things they didn't understand. It has to be talked about. :/
Tbh I dont think you should be punished for liking ur friends status, I understand about people who dislike everything for no reason but seriously what does it change in your life if I like sav's status.
Next thing you know it'll be considered avoided the rules by liking anyones post I'm gonna have to start "covering up" more! Lmao @thorraks
remove the "rate abuse" It's honestly a dumb way to get someone banned from the forums. I personally don't check the forums often so most times I'm on once a day. I don't want to get punished cause I came into the rate abuse category for rating some things as I won't be on the rest of the day. Many players ignore the punishments given when you rate abuse, as seen with the group of people rate abusing ponyknight's content. If you want to keep people from farming trophies then remove those high rating trophies, then the chance of rate abuse dramatically reduces.
I don't see the issue; if the post does not warrant negative ratings, if a person is spamming people with positives and liking a bunch of statuses of a person just remove the ratings, warn them to stop doing that then after a few offences use an infraction. Yeah no one seems to be sure how to use the rates system properly nor mods understand how to punish for it... why even have it if all it does is cause problems?
Exactly. ^ The staff don't even understand the rate abuse system. I've been told so many different things. That's when you know you need to make some changes. Other forums either have no rule and or limit the ratings, hence why they have no issues.
Honestly just remove them. As stated who actually cares for ratings, they are a means of notifying the other user about there post. Leave a message instead, it causes less hassle.
I think they should at the very least keep a "like" rating, and or keep positive ratings. That's it though. You know.. Like mostly every other forums has done basically, lol.
I've cleaned up my suggestion. Formulas 1. a=40(r/24) 2. a=2.5(r/d) 3. a=6(d/7) If ANY ONE of those formulas equal 5 or more, then the player is rate abusing. Rules Formula 1. can only be used if the ratings given were all within 24 hours. Formula 2. can only be used if the variable d is 2 or more. D cannot be 1 or 0. I.e. it can only be used if the player gives ratings everyday for two or more days, not 1 day or no days. Formula 3. can only be used if the ratings were given over the time of 1 week. Usage Wherever the variable r is, place the number of ratings given. Wherever the variable d is, place the number of days the ratings were given out over. Examples Pø has given pß 10 ratings within 24 hours. Pø is rate abusing since a=16.7. (Formula 1.) PΩ has given p# 9 ratings over 4 days. PΩ is rate abusing since a=5.6. (Formula 2.) P∆ has given p% 3 ratings over 2 days. P∆ is not rate abusing since a=3.8. (Formula 2.) P∂ has given p@ 17 ratings over 14 days. P∂ is not rate abusing since a=3. (Formula 2.) P∑ has given p∞ ratings everyday for the past week. P∑ is rate abusing since a=6. (Formula 3.) Defining Time Only 1 staff member can handle a rate abuser at a time. This is because the timezone the attending staff member is in becomes the default time for this rating system. If more than 1 staff attended to the rate abuser, there would be too much difference in timezones for a default. Unless, 1 staff member’s timezone is chosen to be the default time for the rating system.
Then it can still be abused, due to the rate abuse 'rule'. Removal of it all will be a more efficient way to end all of this.
I think that complicates things even more, IMO. Why should the staff have to use the Pythagorean theorem, and study nuclear codes JUST to determine if someone "rate abused." Trust me, I don't disagree with you. If they can't come to a compromise to fix this then they should just scrap the ratings all together.
Well it is just simple mathematics. You only need to put in a few numbers then calculate. And that system I created is not bias, unless ratings are miscounted or something.
I'm exegerrating haha. I just don't think any of the staff would want to do mathematics to determine rating abuse.
