Imagine the following situation...
You get first place on a beatmap with an SS rank score, but then someone comes along and equals your score on the beatmap and now you share the number one position for that beatmap with someone else. You then decide to play the beatmap again to get a higher spinner score so you can get first place all to yourself again, but whilst playing you didn't notice that you got 100 points at the end of one of the sliders. As it turns out you get a much higher spinner score than before and as a result you beat your previous high score, but now the rank has been downgraded to an S rank. You then play the beatmap over and over again, but even though you keep on getting SS ranks on the beatmap, your spinner scores are just slightly short of what you got before, so you are now stuck with the S rank on the scoreboard.
Of course this situation can happen with any rank, such as turning an S rank into an A rank, or an A rank into a B, etc. So I would like a feature in Osu! that when enabled would prevent overwriting higher ranks with lower ones, because it's frustrating seeing an S rank score on the scoreboard, knowing that I can get an SS rank for that beatmap.
You get first place on a beatmap with an SS rank score, but then someone comes along and equals your score on the beatmap and now you share the number one position for that beatmap with someone else. You then decide to play the beatmap again to get a higher spinner score so you can get first place all to yourself again, but whilst playing you didn't notice that you got 100 points at the end of one of the sliders. As it turns out you get a much higher spinner score than before and as a result you beat your previous high score, but now the rank has been downgraded to an S rank. You then play the beatmap over and over again, but even though you keep on getting SS ranks on the beatmap, your spinner scores are just slightly short of what you got before, so you are now stuck with the S rank on the scoreboard.
Of course this situation can happen with any rank, such as turning an S rank into an A rank, or an A rank into a B, etc. So I would like a feature in Osu! that when enabled would prevent overwriting higher ranks with lower ones, because it's frustrating seeing an S rank score on the scoreboard, knowing that I can get an SS rank for that beatmap.