I focus on high priority maps, and sometimes I look at a lower priority map because someone asked nicely, I love the song, or I'm doing a mod trade. I'm fine with a slight increase, but 20 kd is absolutely out of line. Good maps deserve to get ranked, and mapping quality isn't by any means equivalent to star priority.
Star priority shows that the mapper has some amount of community involvement and/or dedication to their map, and that counts for something in my decisions of which map to mod. And I hope other mods share my opinion on this. But come on, give us some freedom. We do favours for friends sometimes, and there's a lot of friendship among BATs. Sure, we have our responsibilities, but we're not servants. We're members of the community who just happen to be charged with making decisions about which maps are high-quality.
As for Party Foul, I don't think ranking that quickly should happen all the time, but like I said, sometimes we look at each others' maps. And sometimes we find those maps to be worthy of ranking.
Star priority shows that the mapper has some amount of community involvement and/or dedication to their map, and that counts for something in my decisions of which map to mod. And I hope other mods share my opinion on this. But come on, give us some freedom. We do favours for friends sometimes, and there's a lot of friendship among BATs. Sure, we have our responsibilities, but we're not servants. We're members of the community who just happen to be charged with making decisions about which maps are high-quality.
As for Party Foul, I don't think ranking that quickly should happen all the time, but like I said, sometimes we look at each others' maps. And sometimes we find those maps to be worthy of ranking.