Shiirn wrote:
Modders who hate your maps are not clawing through the fabric of reality to tear at your soul. Your creation is intangible, it cannot be damaged or destroyed unless you let it be.
Just because it's important to you doesn't mean that you need to be a neurotic sociopath to protect it from things that cannot hurt it.
The same applies here. Personal attacks are pointless; attacking the map has purpose as the moment you push your map for ranking you are by your own choice putting it under review by opinions that are not your own. Being able to be objective and logical about your own emotions is literally what "maturity" is about.
If you truly wanted to have a map be a personal bastion of your feelings and soul, you would not try to rank it. They're mutually exclusive.
You are missing the point that most of us (mappers) are ranking stuff to show everyone our perspective of view of music, and the feeling we are experiencing while listening to the song.
Same applies to you in first place.
and to me as well.We can not just express all the stuff we are experiencing during the listening to the music in words or something. Mapping is the answer at most points of it, but huh... talking about "when you about to rank your map, get ready for it to be destroyed/modified at parts"
I think theres a borderline for "making things to become personal offense" and "improving the map".
Basically, as we all know here, the more attention map gets, the more opinions people expressing here about it, and the more chances for it to basically die, just because theres no distinct borderline of "what is good/bad", aside from RC/Code of conduct, which are vague at some points.
Which is confusing for mapper, cuz, you never know what is "optional enough" to skip or "bad enough" to change,, because, eventually, the more people comes, the more stuff you must respond to, the higher chance that you wont handle everything alone.
so in conclusion I can say that people here should distinguish the stuff that is bad, optional and their own opinion.
by making mods here, some (or maybe most) of you combining these 3 ^ into 1
which doesnt contribute anything good for mapper, for your reputation and for map itself.