I looked around some and didn't see this;
I arrived at this idea from the thoughts "I'd like to map something and go for ranking, I don't have a strong preference as to what I'm mapping, and I'd like to map a song that people would want to play". No doubt, maps get voted higher just for being on a song the players want to hear.
Beatmap requests aren't allowed because by themselves, in a single thread(I understand this is what existed long ago before the ban?), they are just cluttersome, spam to be ignored, random users randomly posting random requests for random songs.
But what if they had a star priority system? In their own forum? Then mappers could walk in knowing "oh, it's an attack on titan theme people most want mapped, okay, I'll map that". Useless random data can be useful if it's sorted, is my conjecture.
Like, for example, if I'd like to map a drum and bass song, but don't really care which one, so I could browse said imaginary forum until I find a highly upvoted drum and bass song, it'd be useful to myself and the community (if I produce a good map). Said forum could also connect a mapper with things like a useable mp3 and relevant skin elements etc.
Or, since most mappers would probably ignore it, are the forum servers happier if all the beatmap request puppies aren't barking? That's the cost side of it, as far as I know.
I arrived at this idea from the thoughts "I'd like to map something and go for ranking, I don't have a strong preference as to what I'm mapping, and I'd like to map a song that people would want to play". No doubt, maps get voted higher just for being on a song the players want to hear.
Beatmap requests aren't allowed because by themselves, in a single thread(I understand this is what existed long ago before the ban?), they are just cluttersome, spam to be ignored, random users randomly posting random requests for random songs.
But what if they had a star priority system? In their own forum? Then mappers could walk in knowing "oh, it's an attack on titan theme people most want mapped, okay, I'll map that". Useless random data can be useful if it's sorted, is my conjecture.
Like, for example, if I'd like to map a drum and bass song, but don't really care which one, so I could browse said imaginary forum until I find a highly upvoted drum and bass song, it'd be useful to myself and the community (if I produce a good map). Said forum could also connect a mapper with things like a useable mp3 and relevant skin elements etc.
Or, since most mappers would probably ignore it, are the forum servers happier if all the beatmap request puppies aren't barking? That's the cost side of it, as far as I know.