Stefan wrote:
Bumping that.
I personally would find it better to change the current Map Rating System as Like/Dislike System. 10 Stars are a quite big selection where many people often picks the wrong Rating. And I don't mean the 1-Star-Troll Votes or the I-like-the-Anime-10-Star Votes but these where people have played one Diff and judging it by only this Diff.
However, it's pretty dumb that if you give a Map six Stars that it still counts as positive.
It makes way more sense to say "I like it." or "I don't like it." instead of "Yeah maybe 8 Stars because xyz and abc.". And since some people are whining about every Rating under nine Stars it would be just the best to change it to a Like/Dislike System. OR to change it from 10 Stars to 5. At least you can say to five Stars great, to four good, to three okay, to two not so good and to one bad. How people judge the Map is subjective but I find it currently in that way bad how it is.
There should be at least 3 options, one for disliking, one for liking, and other for being indifferent about the map (equivalent to 5.5 stars in the 1-10 ranking system), that way you can still vote even if you didn't find the map anything special.
The problem here is that it seems that most people who vote positively vote 10 (even if the map wasn't awesome for them), since any other rating is considered bad.
A solution would be weighting each player's votes based on how they tend to vote for maps.
Examples:
Player A: 120 10-star ratings, 10 1-star ratings. (average: 9.3076923) (standard deviation: 2.407502).
10 Star ratings are 0.2876*StandardDeviation apart from the average.
Each 10-star rating therefore is weighted as:
= 0.226 of a vote.
1 Star ratings are 3.45075*StandardDeviation apart from the average. Each 1-star vote is then considered as 0.999 of a vote.
Player B: 120 10-star ratings, 30 1-star ratings (average: 8.2 StandardDeviation:3.6121)
10-star ratings are worth 0.382 of a vote.
1-star ratings are worth 0.954 of a vote.
Player C: 10 1-star, 60 5-star, 40 7-star, 20 10-star- (Average 6.077 StandardDeviation: 2.2777)
1-star votes are worth 0.974
5-star votes are worth 0.364
7-star votes are worth 0.315
10-star votes are worth 0.915
Player D: 500 1-star, 1 10-star. Average: 1.017964. StandardDeviation: 0.40209
1-star votes are worth 0.036 of a vote.
10-star votes are worth 1 of a vote.
Player E: 100 1-star, 100 10-star. Average: 5.5 Standard Deviation: 4.51129
Each vote is worth 0.681 of a vote.
Player F: 100 2-star, 100 9-star. Average: 5.5 StandardDeviation: 3.50878.
Each vote is also worth 0.681 of a vote.