Part I - Why is the current system shit?
Part II - What exactly is the general idea of osu!Democracy?
Part III - Handling BNs in osu!Democracy: point system or not?
Part IV - Voting a map, and a new kudosu system.
Part V - BN checking the map
Part VI - Ranking/Denying/Suspending
Part VII - Short resume
Part I - Why is the current system shit?
First up, let me give a resume of an average BN in our time.
Name censored. Hope you can identify yourself. And be ashamed while you're at it.
Let me just answer, honey.
You have to rank maps, not exclude all maps except your friend's.
And yes, we're not forcing you
You can quit BNs anytime you want
But while you're in it
Do the job correctly.
BN are supposed to help mappers; not be fricken savage to them and ignore all their request.
I mean, it's okay to map your friend's map but this?
"we're not obligated"
Sincerly, quit BN. I'm probably more lazy than you, but I'm not a cunt that abuse power.
And obviously because of those stupid rules, I can't talk about my friend who got anxiety problem.
Now let's talk about the score! THE DAMN SCORE
PRO: Less of an hassle for people to check if BN are active.
CON: QUANTITY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> QUALITY.
It is true that it's a pain in the ass to check out for every BN to see if they're still active and etc
But sincerely letting the game's quality degrade for this, no thanks
I know people that would gladly do this job, including me.
Part II - What exactly is the general idea of osu!Democracy?
BN are the only one that can judge. And that power sometime get over their head to greediness.
I want to change that-- now the community will vote for their map.
I mean, how are BN better than most average? I mean sure, they gotta have some
experience, but at this point, all they need to do is mod 3 months some map, become BN
and insert themselves in the circlejerk of BN friends.
Mappers will map their maps like the usual. Then once they're done, they can
ask for mods or votes from whoever they want.
What's a vote? It's like... someone's approval on a map.
Once a mapper get the number of vote they desire, they may put their map on the Voted Board. (i need a new name orz)
On the voting board, BNs will select the map. If it had a lot of votes, they are more enticed to select it, because a lot of people want it.
The BN will look at the map, not mod it. At least, they can mod it if they want.
Then three thing may happen: Qualification, Suspending or Denying.
Qualification: Self-defined
Suspending: The map is near ranking, but it may be a small issue that breaks the ranking criteria.
Denying: The map has been denied from rank. The mapper will receive the reason for Denying with a small note, wrote from the BN who denied.
For a ranked map, the players that will play will be able to see if there are unrankable things in the map, in case the BN did not notice. (Which should never happen.)
Part III - Handling BNs in osu!Democracy: point system or not?
Our current system involves points-- like I said, it can easily value quantity over quality.
So first resolution: Get rid of score system
This way, the QAT will no more look at the BN's score-- they will look at:
- Their activity. Inactive BN will be kicked, and have a small BN suspension of being a BN again.
- Their Rank/Denying rate. If a BN looks suspicious (denying/ranking too much map without looking at them and not leaving a real comment), the QAT will inspect them and see if these Denying are justified. If they're not, the BN will be kicked and awarded a large suspension of being a BN again.
- The map they rank. If they are suspected of being in a circlejerk (only checking friend's map), I say they should be permanently banned from being a BN.
Since BN does not need to mod the map they check, if they do so, they will gain extra credibility (For as long as it stays a quality mod), meaning the QATs can be more tolerant facing them from being inactive for a certain period.
If any BN ask to leave the group because of which ever reason, as long as they had a good reputation, they may re-join anytime. Useful for people going inactive.
Second resolution: Fuck the mod score to join the BN.
Anyone that is motivated and have a good modding quality should be eligible to join the BN.
They should not be stupid cunts as well-- selfish brats abstain.
Being a BN is about helping the mappers.
A BN should be able to answer a mapper/modder's question and answer them with their opinion and tips to map/mod better.
A BN should not base the criteria themselves 100% on their opinion, and remember that everyone got theirs-- they should never impose anything.
If a map is suspended and followed by a mod, fixed all or not, as long as it's rankable and has a good vote score, it should be ranked.
Of course, it's acceptable to suspend a map and ask for more vote score before ranking(to get more foreign opinions).
Our current system is orbiting around BN-- they choose and judge all of our map.
Whether community wants a map rankedor not, BN are the only one that can choose.
And PP farm maps should be denied tbh
And now, for the final touch.
Mod for rank should never be allowed.
Any BN who asks a mod in exchange to rank the modder's map should be suspended.
This is a really shady and down trick. Being a BN is pure benevolence, and not a job.
Although, a BN may take priority looking on a map from a modder.
But if they limit themselves to uniquely mod for ranks, then it's unacceptable.
It goes the same with votes 4 votes.
Voting is exclusively for people who wants a certain map ranked-- not to get yours ranked by trading votes.
While I can't find a working system against that, you guys get the point.
If you have a suggestion for it, leave it there!
Part IV - Voting a map, and a new kudosu system.
First, a small example here:
Example
Mapper: Will you mod my map?
Modder: Sure!
(One mod later.)
Option one
Modder: Your map is really great! I'll put a vote as well.
Mapper: Thank you!
Modder: Consider putting it in the voted board soon!
Mapper: I'll get a few more votes and get to it!
Option two
Modder: Your map has a lot of flaws, you know. There are unrankable issues!
Mapper: I'll fix them! Can you vote my map?
Modder: No, because you have to improve it first. I don't really want to play a map like this!
Mapper: /me cri
Modder: Sure!
(One mod later.)
Option one
Modder: Your map is really great! I'll put a vote as well.
Mapper: Thank you!
Modder: Consider putting it in the voted board soon!
Mapper: I'll get a few more votes and get to it!
Option two
Modder: Your map has a lot of flaws, you know. There are unrankable issues!
Mapper: I'll fix them! Can you vote my map?
Modder: No, because you have to improve it first. I don't really want to play a map like this!
Mapper: /me cri
What are votes? Votes are like amapper/modder's approval on a map-- they would like/would see no problem seeing this map ranked.
Everyone can vote a map a day-- that should be the limit.
Kudosu are the only thing that could break that limit. For as how much kudosu you have, you may vote all the map you want.
Be aware that a map may be voted to a map to two times-- one from a daily vote, and another from the kudosu.
Limiting everyone to two votes will make it so that people can't vote like hellfuck on their favorite mapper.
I mean, having a lot of kudosu doesn't mean the map is good. We need lots of foreign opinion for a map to be deemed good/ready for rank.
This is the first step. People have to vote someone's map. There should be a fixated amount of votes required before it is sent in the Voted Board: for example, 20 or something. (10 opinion from mappers/modders with kudosu is pretty much big, amirite?)
Voting will allow the community to talk, not just the BN.
Part V - BN checking the map
After a map has received enough votes, a mapper may decide anytime when they think their map is ready to send it to the Voted Board. (i really need a better name orz)
The Voted Board is a place where all the mapper put their map and ask for a BN's judgement-- By judgement, I mean, is it rankable? Is it highly voted? Is it a troll beatmap? Is it a pp farm beatmap?
The BN will select any map they want from the list-- highly voted or not does not matter. A BN needs to be active, not to rank a lot of map.
They will overlook the map-- tesplay, open in editor, whatever. If they think the map is good, then it will be qualified.
Upon a map's qualification, the BN earn activity, but nothing extra. A BN that rank a lot of map is equal to a BN that disqualify/suspend a lot of map-- why? Because if there's a lot of low-voted map on the board and that a certain BN take care of it, it cleans up the Voted Board! What's wrong with that? (yeah that sounded harsh and mean sry xd)
Of course, you can't just take them all and deny them all-- you need to give your reason for denying. Not just "Unrankable, Notes all over the place, I don't like it, Shit flow". They can do a short mod as a response to denying, as when a BN deny/suspend a map, they are in the obligation to write about why they do so.
Any BN who lies in their reason for denying a map should be permanently banned from being a BN.
Let's jot down one more point.
One, mappers are limited to ONE map sent to the voted board a month-- that's 12 map a year if the mapper is pro enough. The limit will make it so there won't be some 48295729104 map request in the Voted Board, making it pretty much impossible to play.
Part VI - Ranking/Denying/Suspending
This is a short part to explain what are those three words.
Ranking
Simply, qualifying a map. The BN has accepted it because the community voted for it-- they wanted the map to be ranked. If anyone plays the map and see something unrankable, they must immediately tell it! The map will be returned to the Voted Board, and put to suspended state. The mapper can fix the issue and any BN can re-rank it again. But the BN that ranked the map faultily might get punished if it was something extremely obvious. We're not asking to mod, but checking AiMod isn't hard at all.
Suspending
If a map has a small unrankable issue, such as a note out of the grid, AiMod going crazy, a bit too much kiai or something, storyboard problems, but they're minor, the map is put back to Voted Board and put in-Suspended- state for three days. Once this three day delay is over, the map will be eligible to be judged again. If the map wasn't fixed, it can be put back to suspending-- but beware, a BN could deny it simply if they have to suspend too much. In general, after suspending a map, a BN should mod the map, or at least point out the problem by posting on the beatmap's thread. A map may also be suspended due to the lack of votes.
Denying
While this reports mainly to the worse case, such as notes all over the place, PP farm map, too much unrankable issues, etc. The map will completely be removed from the Voted board, and the mapper will have to wait the cooldown before reposting the map on the Voted Board. A BN must always provide valid reason for deny. Like I said earlier, they have to jot down a few points, such as unrankable issues to fix, and stuff like that.
Part VII - Short resume
osu!Democracy will give a better link with the community, and less power to abuse from BN. It will also motivate a bit more that they don't need to mod as well-- it makes everything better, because they will be able to rank/deny faster, and mappers can expect their map to be judged a lot faster as well! We all know some maps that deserve to be ranked but sadly can't because of our actual system. With this new system, gather votes from mappers, friends, modders, and send them to the Voted board. With at least a good bunch of people voting, you can get your map easily ranked, because the BN won't be able to ignore a highly-voted map.
Beware I won't answer stupid comments like "it's a bad idea" if it's not clearly supported with arguments. If you have argument, I'll fight them back. If you have no argument, I'll fight you with pictures of anime men kissing. Also remember this post is long, didn't check if every single thing made sense, if you think something is a bit crazy, tell me, I'll change it, coz yeah, as you can see, that's a beautiful wall. insert obligatory donald trump joke here
