Also consider adding a section about replying to mods courteously. Too many people reply to mods defensively or with negative energy. I've seen people downright insulting modders because their mod isn't useful to them.
Agree with this. Couldn't write this better down.SapphireGhost wrote:
Conclusion
Good communication goes a long way towards both parties being happier with the end result and creates a generally friendlier atmosphere. The BAT is here to help mappers, not to put them down. Providing a good quality, courteous post supports the overall image of the BAT and helps to improve its relationship with mappers.
That sums it up for me. Being polite and modding in this way should just be common sense, if someone really doesen't mod courteously then something must really be wrong... Excellent guide by the way, looking forward to see it posted to the public!senaya wrote:
wow, if this thread is really needed then i have some bad news. doesn't one have to be like this before joining the team?
but it should be posted to the public, that'd be nice.
This. It should be the expected norm to reply to every legitimate point of a mod in the same manner as it would be expected for the mod itself. Sometimes I can't fathom how modders put up with the kind of mod-replies they are getting (if they get anything at all!). Applying mods and replying to the modder is almost the same amount of work as the modding itself...unless you are just looking at the obvious stuff like hitsound/NC- and "move-1-grid-left"-mods which take no time at all to check and implement. Maybe we should get this into the heads of mappers as well...UnitedWeSin wrote:
Also consider adding a section about replying to mods courteously. Too many people reply to mods defensively or with negative energy. I've seen people downright insulting modders because their mod isn't useful to them.
Loctav wrote:
Please create a code of conduct for mappers and modders for this, when they enter the beatmap forums for the first time or submit their first beatmap.
I have the feeling that the mapping community lacks of a code of conduct that everyone must agree to when participating on creating own content for this game.
You got it. Some modders write a long mod which lacks value or seems very silly to a skillful mapper. For me, if someone tells me to change a part which I have considered hundreds of times, the line will surely be ignored. I agree that a well explained mod is more than no explanation, but for skillful mapper the extra words are just annoying - like you are told (over and over again) how 1+1=2 is calculated. Remember, the mapper is likely to be the one who knows his own map best.p3n wrote:
Those basic mods sometimes may seem rude or lazy but they can be excellent mods!
I second this.p3n wrote:
Loctav wrote:
Please create a code of conduct for mappers and modders for this, when they enter the beatmap forums for the first time or submit their first beatmap.
I have the feeling that the mapping community lacks of a code of conduct that everyone must agree to when participating on creating own content for this game.
I like where this is going
i love you. was thinking about this too.Mr Color wrote:
tl;dr don't be a dick, use simple english.
I'm not a native english speaker and i could read this fine, WTF IS THIS!Ephemeral wrote:
hark, thy sire of color. verily tis a most astute shame that those amongst our kin befit themselves to defile the queen's tongue with such plebian banter, but tis a folly of themselves, not of our esteemed order. indeed, tis no exorbitant request to humbly accede that our initiate aspirants doth use the tongue of culture to most ardently express thy observed faulting and failings within the map of the beats.
forsooth and henceforth, my chaps! verily tis I whom say that such pedantry of the written word is of the most inconsequential issue, to the point where such an issue is truly not of the stove-reddened kettle to begin with.
Can someone translate this to simple english? I want to read what eph said.Ephemeral wrote:
hark, thy sire of color. verily tis a most astute shame that those amongst our kin befit themselves to defile the queen's tongue with such plebian banter, but tis a folly of themselves, not of our esteemed order. indeed, tis no exorbitant request to humbly accede that our initiate aspirants doth use the tongue of culture to most ardently express thy observed faulting and failings within the map of the beats.
forsooth and henceforth, my chaps! verily tis I whom say that such pedantry of the written word is of the most inconsequential issue, to the point where such an issue is truly not of the stove-reddened kettle to begin with.
Me too. You're not alone.Sakura wrote:
I'm not a native english speaker and i could read this fine, WTF IS THIS!Ephemeral wrote:
hark, thy sire of color. verily tis a most astute shame that those amongst our kin befit themselves to defile the queen's tongue with such plebian banter, but tis a folly of themselves, not of our esteemed order. indeed, tis no exorbitant request to humbly accede that our initiate aspirants doth use the tongue of culture to most ardently express thy observed faulting and failings within the map of the beats.
forsooth and henceforth, my chaps! verily tis I whom say that such pedantry of the written word is of the most inconsequential issue, to the point where such an issue is truly not of the stove-reddened kettle to begin with.
Shut up. D:Ephemeral wrote:
hark, thy sire of color. verily tis a most astute shame that those amongst our kin befit themselves to defile the queen's tongue with such plebian banter, but tis a folly of themselves, not of our esteemed order. indeed, tis no exorbitant request to humbly accede that our initiate aspirants doth use the tongue of culture to most ardently express thy observed faulting and failings within the map of the beats.
forsooth and henceforth, my chaps! verily tis I whom say that such pedantry of the written word is of the most inconsequential issue, to the point where such an issue is truly not of the stove-reddened kettle to begin with.
Did you even have to try?Ephemeral wrote:
hark, thy sire of color. verily tis a most astute shame that those amongst our kin befit themselves to defile the queen's tongue with such plebian banter, but tis a folly of themselves, not of our esteemed order. indeed, tis no exorbitant request to humbly accede that our initiate aspirants doth use the tongue of culture to most ardently express thy observed faulting and failings within the map of the beats.
forsooth and henceforth, my chaps! verily tis I whom say that such pedantry of the written word is of the most inconsequential issue, to the point where such an issue is truly not of the stove-reddened kettle to begin with.
Even in the case of suggestions that are extreme, it is still possible to find a polite response after some thought. Tell the modder that their suggestions would cause the map to go in an undesired direction, or that they were not helpful on a personal level but their ideas were considered. If there is good reasoning behind the decision, the modder should be able to accept not having all of their suggestions accepted.Scorpiour wrote:
about replying to mods courteously... i would say that sometimes it is "very hard" to manage an appropriate word to refuse since some of the advices are ... too nazi .. or leading to remap in a different mapping style....
it's right.SapphireGhost wrote:
Even in the case of suggestions that are extreme, it is still possible to find a polite response after some thought. Tell the modder that their suggestions would cause the map to go in an undesired direction, or that they were not helpful on a personal level but their ideas were considered. If there is good reasoning behind the decision, the modder should be able to accept not having all of their suggestions accepted.