It seems peppy is willing to let us try and operate this Modder of the Month idea. Awesome
However so far there seem to be a couple of things that would need organising in order to get this up and running. So far from my understanding we still need to organise:
- The system and how it will work
- The moderation of the system (peppy seems willing to let us do this, however I'm sure we'd need more than two people to moderate something like this fairly.
as far as the sytem's operation goes, there are a number of possibilities that have been provided. Maybe we can find a way to pick apart the best parts of each proposition and make it into a system that could work.
Azure_Kyte wrote:
I would imagine one solution would be to grab to top 10/20 kudosu earners each month and get a select group of judges to check a portion of their recent mod posts in order to help guage how much work they've put into modding over the month. The judges would vote independently of one another and the person with the highest number of votes gets the medal. If more than one person has the same number of votes, the vote is conducted again between the people with the same number of votes.
This proposed system is currently based on 'he who mods most gets the award'. I think it could be set up so a certain number of people are selected from each section of a top 50 monthly kudosu chart. say there can be 20 nominations, all 10 from top 10, 5 from 11-25, one nomination from every 5 ranking positions after that?
Lizbeth wrote:
An idea will be, an option, also enable after giving kudos, to Rate each moderations ( maybe 1-5 ). The user with higher rate will earn the badge.
Also the rate should be secret to prevent any troubles between users.
It has been said that allowing the mapper to vote for mod quality can be easily manipulated based on a mapper's personal like/dislike of the modder, and I have no real suggestions as to how to combat this.
Lizbeth wrote:
How about that each Mod Post after you give the Kudos, enable another option to vote for the modder of the month, something like: Give vote to modder of the month. Obviously once you voted, that option wouldn't appear anymore in the current month so this will be one vote per user. the bad thing is you will have to wait until the month is almost over to decide who you wanna give your vote.
Personally I see merit in this. coupled with parts from the suggestions above, I believe this would be a good system to get started with.
from these, I've come up with a
possible proposition as to how this will work. Taking parts from these suggestions, I propose this system:
a week before the end of the month, A group of 20 people are selected from the top 50 montly kudosu earners. the top 10 are automatically nominated, and a number of other people are selected from the top 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 modders. The people in the lower tiers are selected with more randomization than the higher tiered nominees.
These nominees are then put to the public. A possible method for this is that when a mapper updates their map, the nominees who have posted mods on their map's thread are listed (possibly along with links to the mod post?) and the mapper rates them from a number proportional to the number of nominees who posted in the thread (say 5 people posted, the mapper assigns the most valuable mod post a score of 5, and then numbers them according to mod worth, 1 being least helpful, 5 being most helpful). From now on I'll refer to these points as Modder Points
Alongside this, I propose that people viewing the pending/WiP threads can support a nomination. If a person views a mod post by a nominee that is in depth and evidence suggests the nominee took a lot of effort in modding the map, they can assign them a number of Modder Points proportional to the position of that player.
I propose that Regular modders/mappers/users with NO ranked maps can award between 1 and 2 Modder Points when they support a nomination. Users with at least one Ranked map can award between 1 and 3 Modder Points, since they should have some experience with how the modding process goes. Prior Modder of the Months can award between 1 and 5 Modder Points and BAT's can assign between 1 and 10 Modder Points. Note that obviously a person can support a nominee only once per post.
on the second last day of the month these ratings are closed and the value of these mods/supports are tallied up. The judging party then selects the top 10 based on their Modder Points and from then the best nominee's mods in the last month are checked by the judges. The judges then decide the top 3? modders, and decide on the modder of the month by majority vote.
The Modder of the Month could get a custom forum title and a shiny badge on their profile, which I think should be stackable if they have recieved a Modder of the Month before, and depending on whether they are a subscriber or not, possibly a free week of osu direct?.
There may be errors or possible catches to this proposed solution, so I'm posting it here for possible suggestions/improvements.
