Baiohazado wrote:
BNs are forced to have unreasonably high standards so that they don't lose their BN status. This negatively affects the community's perception of ranking a beatmap.
This confuses me, what unreasonably high standards are BNs held to? The requirements right now can allow you to easily get through just by having mediocre modding ability and a decent amount of activity. Becoming a BN and staying as one, is not that hard, and I am saying this as someone who recently joined this year. They have even made it more accessible for current BNs to stay IN the BNG or return later. In my and many other's experiences, it is not difficult to ask for feedback on your mods, ask for ways to improve and even seek guidance on learning such. There's even discord channels and entire programs dedicated to teaching mappers how to mod properly and how to improve to "BN quality level." If you think BNs are held to unreasonable standards, I'd like you to take a look at mods half of the BNG makes. I'd also like you to take a look at the ecosystem currently held in qualified -> rank and then reconsider what are these standards you speak of. At best, your claim is misguided and you failed to do much consideration of the current ranked ecosystem.
Baiohazado wrote:
I think the Quaver system is great example of what the ranking system can be...
This paragraph seems to not take into account that Quaver's system has countless faults and a lot of their solutions to "osu!mania problems" are just band-aid fixes. I think it's ironic that you bring up Quaver's "focus on playability" since I've noticed over the years that Quaver's Ranking Supervisor team's goal is extremely inconsistent, even after talking directly with those who were involved with the team. The queue system of Quaver had it's fair share of issues as well, with it being extremely overloaded, charts taking MONTHS to even be looked at. Now imagine pulling that over to osu!mania, it would be even worse especially since there's a wider audience of people that migrate and start on osu!mania. I think it's obvious to tell that it would not end well.
It'd also be great if you could elaborate on the "large page a rules and regulations." This is very vague and I'm not quite sure what you're exactly referring to. The osu!mania specific ranking criteria? What rules specifically? Did you take into account that most of the RC is guidelines and these guidelines can be broken if necessary? I feel like a lot of the community shares this misguided opinion on the RC being some sentient being that must be followed, and that it's super strict and long. When that's really not the case whatsoever.
If you're talking about the "high standard of quality" for osu!mania... I'd like you to again comb through what gets ranked each week. I think now, the quality of charts has improved on average... but it's not the standard. It's not even an unwritten rule, since some BNs will nominate extremely low quality charts. (I'd like to add that when I say quality, I'm also including the playablity factor as apart of it. Since mapping is more than just one aspect, it's multiple elements that come together to create a cohesive product).
I am not denying that osu!mania has problems with the current system, and I think there should be a lot more changes beyond this. osu!mania DOES need more BNs, but sacrificing quality over quantity is not the way to go. I'm all for promoting programs and helping mappers attain their goals of becoming a BN. But lowering the already low standards will create more problems, Quaver's history with ranked is a prime example of what we should NOT be doing.
Last thing I'd like to mention, please look at the
the statistics before claiming that relaxation of spread will not solve any problems. This data clearly shows that it will create progress towards motivating more mappers to rank their charts. You can already see this with the influx of more well established charters starting to open up to ranking things after the hitsound addition requirement was removed. I'm sure with this, it will open up more charters that BNs want to push into the ranked section and allow BNs to reach a wider audience of whom they could not reach before. Again, one of the original problems is that well established charters did not want to push their charts into the ranked section. These proposals were done to hopefully solve this issue. The problem of it being difficult for new charters to get into the ranked system is an entirely different thread for an entirely different discussion (though these changes will certainly have some sort of impact on that issue).