Hi everyone! This week will be different for a number of reasons! First of all, you may notice that every map nominated today has already been put up for nomination before. This week will be a sort of "redemption" week for reasons I will explain shortly.
In the past, the way that the Loved category had worked was to let players vote maps into the category in comparison to other maps. This meant that whatever maps were pushed through or rejected that week were highly influenced by what maps they were competing against that same week. As time progresses, the average quality of maps being put up for nomination will slowly dwindle BUT the roughly the same amount of maps will enter the category each week.
This is highly unfair to the maps which are of much higher quality, but were rejected solely because they were nominated early on along with more popular maps causing them to be somewhat outshined. The point of this "redemption" vote is to give each map previously rejected another chance to be Loved under a new, fairer voting system.
Another issue I had noticed is that players seemed to feel the need to vote "strategically", where if a map is below the cutoff range, the best way to help it would be to vote for it and only it in order to try to sway percentages back in the map's favor. While appreciated how strongly people fight for maps, it unfortunately goes against the point of the voting as a means to gauge how many people want one map. The strategy to keep all maps within a small range of votes to allow for more maps to enter the category was not wrong, but instead showed that the system itself was flawed.
Today I propose a new way to vote! I've spoken to nekodex, a web coder for the new website, and he's expressed that he and the ppy.co crew are unfortunately too busy to create a new way to vote for Loved maps (though it's on their to-do list!) for how I envision this voting to work best, so instead in the meantime I will be hosting Strawpoll votes which will function similarly until then!
The way this week's redemption vote will work as well as all future Loved votes (if it works well) is that instead of players voting for maps to enter the category in comparison to other maps, each map will simply have a Yes/No vote attached to them. This way, it is in everyone's best interest to vote on every single map nominated (though admittedly more tedious because of requiring a 3rd party website to do so).
Maps will require a 90% approval rate in order to qualify. Votes will be checked after 7 days. Anything exceeding that threshold will be pushed into the category.
Feel free to use the Strawpoll comments under each poll to discuss why or why not a map deserves to enter the Loved category!
That said, here are this week's nominees!
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Nero vs After School - Sound In Motion vs AH (Fauxami Mashup) by galvenize
Vote for this map here!
ayaponzu* - Yakubyougami by cRyo[iceeicee]
Vote for this map here!
Shintani Ryoko - Wonderful World by HanzeR
Vote for this map here!
Reol - +Danshi by Evening
Vote for this map here!
Memme - Uranium by Jemmmmy
Vote for this map here!
Yuuyu - Scrap Syndrome by Snow Note
Vote for this map here!
HujuniseikouyuuP - Too young to beer. by Broccoly
Vote for this map here!
SOUTAISEIRIRON - Shikaku Kakumei by EvilElvisV2
Vote for this map here!
Knife Party - Songs Compilation by TrigonometrY
Vote for this map here!
cosMo@Bousou-P - Denpa Shoujo to Kuusou Teien by BarkingMadDog
Vote for this map here!
In the past, the way that the Loved category had worked was to let players vote maps into the category in comparison to other maps. This meant that whatever maps were pushed through or rejected that week were highly influenced by what maps they were competing against that same week. As time progresses, the average quality of maps being put up for nomination will slowly dwindle BUT the roughly the same amount of maps will enter the category each week.
This is highly unfair to the maps which are of much higher quality, but were rejected solely because they were nominated early on along with more popular maps causing them to be somewhat outshined. The point of this "redemption" vote is to give each map previously rejected another chance to be Loved under a new, fairer voting system.
Another issue I had noticed is that players seemed to feel the need to vote "strategically", where if a map is below the cutoff range, the best way to help it would be to vote for it and only it in order to try to sway percentages back in the map's favor. While appreciated how strongly people fight for maps, it unfortunately goes against the point of the voting as a means to gauge how many people want one map. The strategy to keep all maps within a small range of votes to allow for more maps to enter the category was not wrong, but instead showed that the system itself was flawed.
Today I propose a new way to vote! I've spoken to nekodex, a web coder for the new website, and he's expressed that he and the ppy.co crew are unfortunately too busy to create a new way to vote for Loved maps (though it's on their to-do list!) for how I envision this voting to work best, so instead in the meantime I will be hosting Strawpoll votes which will function similarly until then!
The way this week's redemption vote will work as well as all future Loved votes (if it works well) is that instead of players voting for maps to enter the category in comparison to other maps, each map will simply have a Yes/No vote attached to them. This way, it is in everyone's best interest to vote on every single map nominated (though admittedly more tedious because of requiring a 3rd party website to do so).
Maps will require a 90% approval rate in order to qualify. Votes will be checked after 7 days. Anything exceeding that threshold will be pushed into the category.
Feel free to use the Strawpoll comments under each poll to discuss why or why not a map deserves to enter the Loved category!
That said, here are this week's nominees!
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Nero vs After School - Sound In Motion vs AH (Fauxami Mashup) by galvenize
Vote for this map here!
ayaponzu* - Yakubyougami by cRyo[iceeicee]
Vote for this map here!
Shintani Ryoko - Wonderful World by HanzeR
Vote for this map here!
Reol - +Danshi by Evening
Vote for this map here!
Memme - Uranium by Jemmmmy
Vote for this map here!
Yuuyu - Scrap Syndrome by Snow Note
Vote for this map here!
HujuniseikouyuuP - Too young to beer. by Broccoly
Vote for this map here!
SOUTAISEIRIRON - Shikaku Kakumei by EvilElvisV2
Vote for this map here!
Knife Party - Songs Compilation by TrigonometrY
Vote for this map here!
cosMo@Bousou-P - Denpa Shoujo to Kuusou Teien by BarkingMadDog
Vote for this map here!
