1. In practice, popularity of songs in different genre differs significantly, enlarging the problem that come rare choices of song recieves less caring (2kd-system may cover this one). If this is simply a numerical requirement, mappers will just find everyone and tell them "hey give me a pop-level (pop-level sounds lol), just like people asking others "hey star my map" back to the days that the first star is free. Then popularity level is even easier to be abused comparing with current system.
2. Mod-level's problem: In practice some modder tends to star the map after certain rechecks --- starring the map shound't be linked with (the a certain modder's) first mod.

I can't really see a strong need in upgrading a system.

Garven wrote:

Quick thought on the mod plus end: I wonder if this will push the mindset of always giving kudosu regardless of usefulness/perceived effort to attain the coveted priority.

Shiirn wrote:

Counterargument counters:
People use multis or inexperienced friends to farm popularity! There can be two ways to solve this: Multis are a bannable offense anyway, so ban them. And a better way is to require a minimum playcount to be eligible to popularize a map - let's say 1000.

Shiirn wrote:

Make bubbled maps automatically move to another place - Most likely a subforum in pending. This lets people still look through unbubbled maps easily and efficiently, and allows BATs to look through bubbles more easily as well. In this forum, we can sort by Last Modpost Date, allowing for old bubbles to be sorted easily.

Shiirn wrote:

Make bubbled maps automatically move to another place - Most likely a subforum in pending. This lets people still look through unbubbled maps easily and efficiently, and allows BATs to look through bubbles more easily as well. In this forum, we can sort by Last Modpost Date, allowing for old bubbles to be sorted easily.