Help Reading Ratings Matrix

[Jennz]

Hi all. I'm new so excuse me if this has been asked before. I did do a search but mostly got stuff irrelevant to my question.

What I would like to clarify is how do you decipher the ratings people have left for a person. Either yourself or a potential opponent.

First. I understand the main ratings of Fair Play, Gameplay, Attitude. Easy enough. 1 is bad 5 is good. No problem.

However, when you read down the listing of ratings it has tags.

For example:

Tags: Quick, Balanced Play, Good Strategy

And then it has a number of ratings under that. I am assuming that the ratings under that heading were tagged with those comments? And in this case it also seems fairly straight forward as 1 is bad = slow, unbalanced, bad strategy and 5 of course = quick, balanced and good strategy.


Where it gets a bit confusing for me is where there are tags like this:

Tags: Irrational, Sore Loser, Clueless, Poor Strategy


The tags are indicating this person is not a very good player. However, they have 5 stars in all three main areas from most of the people who rated them under these tags. Are they trying to say that these people are NOT, Irrational, Sore Loser, Clueless, Poor Strategy? Or are they trying to say that they are very much Irrational, Sore Loser, Clueless, Poor Strategy?

It's confusing to me and unfortunately it seems very prevalent when I have looked at several players ratings. Doesn't the giving them 5 stars give them a good rating? Yet they are commenting by tagging the opposite? Is there some kind of guide to help with the rating system?

Thank you for your time.

[Dukasaur]

All the tags are optional. There is no direct connection between the stars and the tags. Only use the tags if you think that they are deserved. If someone comes up with a really clever plan then tag them for Good Strategy. If someone is a bitches and whines and is obviously a Sore Loser then tag them as such. Otherwise, just leave it alone.

For 90% of cases the stars are sufficient. You rarely learn enough about someone to give them a tag.

[tigerbob]

I've always assumed that the tags went with the rating just above those tags. In other words if I leave you a rating any tag that I apply would show immediately below my rating.

[spiesr]

I've always assumed that the tags went with the rating just above those tags. In other words if I leave you a rating any tag that I apply would show immediately below my rating.

This is true enough, in that the tags do go with the rating above. However, they tags don't assign to the different categories for ratings. And users are able to leave tags that don't make any real sense with the stars they leave. (As for why they do this, nobody knows.)

[macbone]

Yep, the tags go with the ratings directly above them. So you might have one player who gets all 5s and tags like "good teammate" and "friendly" for a good, solid game, and then maybe the player played a speed game and got all 1s with "whiny" and irrational" (playing in speed games tends to result in lower ratings (= ).