Ratings Rant

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No, this is not a rant about how crap the ratings system is - in fact I think it's great. The new ratings system came into effect shortly after I joined CC.

What puzzles me is that we have a really good tool for rating people and it's misused. I wrote on my wall that I generally leave people four stars which means 'above average' if they played a decent game. I constantly get asked by players why I left only four stars when they did nothing wrong.

Five stars means 'excellent.' How many players have played an 'excellent' game? I know I've played in total maybe a handful. the rest were pretty average. But five stars has come to mean "didn't eff up."

This makes a lot of the ratings system redundant, especially because losing triggers (sometimes) a one star rating esp. from people like codeblue0108. It leaves not much room to really give people an 'excellent' rating for having played an 'excellent' game.

Most players should probably have a rating of around 3.5 or something, not 4.5. I have a totally undeserved rating of 4.8.

Anyway, just food for though.

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[AAFitz]

You are mostly right...however...you will find that those with 5.0 are always polite excellent players

those with 4.9 also polite excellent players

at 4.8... youll find most players...not afraid to complain about something, but mostly good and polite players

at 4.7 they are a little more vocal

at 4.6 you can expect they arent afraid to say something

at 4.5..they are likely to complain about something

at 4.4, its almost guaranteed they will complain about something soon

and lower than that its a virtual certainty, that they will complain in most of their games or play especially bad

the ratings actually work...the numbers just dont mean what they say they do...

I actually like the new system, because it allows you the flexibility to have conflict with individual players, and not really be penalized by it...

I can keep 4.8 easy, but under the old system it was a lot of work to keep a good feedback ratio...it tied my hands far too much

[ahote]

>>I actually like the new system, because it allows you the flexibility to have conflict with individual players, and not really be penalized by it...

I can keep 4.8 easy, but under the old system it was a lot of work to keep a good feedback ratio...it tied my hands far too much<<


Yeah - I'm with you on that. I think the system is great, just wish it was used to its full extent. Ahh well, who cares. Let's rage on.

Oh, and can I have some of your medals?