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[Experiment] The QATocalypse

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Loctav
(This is a thought experiment, so treat it as such.)

Hello my friends and foes, long time no see!

I have been observing the QAT and Beatmap Nominators for quite a while. When everything was still under my leadership, stuff was obviously not really stellar either, but let's say that currently stuff did not get any better. First QAT leaders are already jumping ship and all in all, everything doesn't look too bright.

You may wonder: "Why the heck does this person care?"
And I tell you: "Haha, I don't know either!"

But still, currently time is good to conduct a little experiment, I guess.

The QATocalypse


Let's assume that for whatever reason, the entirety of the Quality Assurance Team and the Beatmap Nominators gets disbanded as a whole tomorrow. Everybody runs in circles, nobody gets their flawless creations ranked anymore and everybody already assumes the death of osu!. But worry not, in order to restore order and unity, the entire community is supposed to elect new Beatmap Nominators. This is a community-ran game anyways, right?

So let's pretend that this is a thing now and that you all can elect the future Beatmap Nominators for the next year.

For this, let's set some ground rules:

  1. Your account must be at least 1 year old. You know, so you earned your osu! citizenship legally.
  2. You have 3 votes. You don't have to use all votes. You can vote whoever you want. The person does not need to declare that they run for this position beforehand.
  3. Assume that the position of Beatmap Nominator expires after 1 year. Then the person would have to re-run for this position or drops out.
  4. Assume the person would have to accept the position after election. So voting for people who would reject anyways is pretty pointless.
  5. You have to file a brief reason why you vote for this person. Leaving it blank renders the vote invalid.
  6. You can only submit your votes once. You have to submit all 3 votes at once. That's because it's easier to evaluate.
  7. The threshold for winning the position remains unknown to you (for now). It will be the top percentage of all elected people, but I want to see the distribution of votes first before drawing a line.
  8. All voting results will be published afterwards. Everything will be anonymized before publishing.
  9. As compensation, I raffle 3x 1 year of supporter tag. For that, you have to submit your e-mail address in the form. Make sure that the e-mail you submit is equal to the e-mail you use for your osu! account. Your e-mail will be kept strictly private and will not be distributed anywhere.


> You can cast your votes here! (Voting ends on 15th April 2018)

>>RESULTS<<

I hope you are as curious about the results as I am!
Xinnoh
"it's just a social experiment"
hypercyte
thought experiment omegalul

BN Elections
Okoayu
it's like 2014 but with everyone votes instead of bns vote bn
Izzywing

Sinnoh wrote:

"it's just a social experiment"
Sieg

Okoratu wrote:

it's like 2014 but with everyone votes instead of bns vote bn
milr_
social experiment
celerih
This is super interesting, excited to see the results
Lyawi

celerih wrote:

This is super interesting, excited to see the results

same lol. If people take it serious I can imagine this could be a real thing
-Sylvari

Hobbes2 wrote:

Sinnoh wrote:

"it's just a social experiment"
hypercyte

-Sylvari wrote:

Hobbes2 wrote:

Sinnoh wrote:

"it's just a social experiment"
Prophecy
That is the main point.

hypercyte wrote:

-Sylvari wrote:

Hobbes2 wrote:

Sinnoh wrote:

"it's just a social experiment"
Pachiru

Lyawi wrote:

same lol. If people take it serious I can imagine this could be a real thing

i wish it doesn't
puxtu

Sinnoh wrote:

"it's just a social experiment"
Shurelia
don't forget to vote for me guys
Shohei Ohtani
wow really makes you think
_Epreus
Placeholder for nothing. Call me after a week thanks owo
Stefan
this is some good stuff
Seijiro
and that's how BNG and QAT got reformed for real ;^)
Shmiklak
Might be interesting. Best of luck to all good modders!
Aurele
Excited to see how it turns out.
Antalf
Locdad i missed you. Aaaahaha maybe this time probably one would make it, maybe the popularity meta is down now, quoting someone now that in the end this is all a community driven game so yeah.
Icekalt
may the best blanket modder win!
Peter
Yeah cool more jokes pls
TheKingHenry

Shurelia wrote:

don't forget to vote for me guys

can you guarantee me the supporter reward if I do :^)

Interested to see the results though
hehe
vote for me
WITCHDAGGER
vote for handsome
WITCHDAGGER
Handsome should be "easy to beat" as much as any mapper. His fanbase is mostly composed of people who avidly watch pishifat videos, which is an audience unable to construct their own opinions on mapping.
Godot

WITCHDAGGER wrote:

vote for pishifat
thank you for giving us this inspirational advice that you - yourself - WITCHDAGGER (aka My Dog Is My Profile Picture) gave us, presented in a quote box in this post with absolutely no alterations whatsoever.
Sonnyc

Loctav wrote:

You may wonder: "Why the heck does this person care?"
And I tell you: "Haha, I don't know either!"
Love this part.
quila
[deleted as part of purging my old post history]
Fu Xuan
Interesting.
SpectorDG
Like a BAT election v2 in 2018 ? Currently bad quality maps are should be great from now. Nice one Loctav !
Ascendance
People are failing to realize this is just an experiment, nothing is actually going to come of this. I really disagree with the idea of this overall since it feels like a popularity contest rather than an idea of which nominator actually does the most work (the public vote far outweighs that of our fellow nominators), and so this can easily be skewed, at least in the case of smaller modes. Public opinion plays a huge part in stuff like this, so winners can easily be decided based on fanbase. Just my 2 cents though, probably won't participate since it's kind of unethical to vote against people who I'm working with regardless.
Grim Rapper
praise the sun

@ascendance well, it's voting system afterall. The majority always win cuz they're the most prominent factor
Lefafel
The correct vote is 'Nobody'. Shut the entire ranking system down.
Shurelia

TheKingHenry wrote:

Shurelia wrote:

don't forget to vote for me guys

can you guarantee me the supporter reward if I do :^)

Interested to see the results though

ssshhh


pm for me for details
Kaifin
popularity contest: i think it would be better if people were given a list of members to vote yes/no on so the results aren't arbitrarily competing against each other

reminds me of the old loved voting system

that being said i think the experiment is cool and i voted anyways!!
fieryrage
grats to monstrata
zhu

fieryrage wrote:

grats to monstrata
Kibbleru
ye, i bubbled ur maps so dont forget to vote for me ;)
kappa
Stack
Inbefore it gets worked into the system one day and everybody has too deal with it
ZekeyHache
unfair, no one will vote for me cuz I'm a furry 😿
Seijiro
Solution: stop being a furry ;)))))

I also get the feeling we're going off-topic =.="
ZekeyHache
I wouldn't be able to live MrOff-topic
FreezyLemon
interesting experiment, but the problem is that the biggest part of the community (like me) isn't really active in the forums and doesn't follow beatmap discussions. That means I can't really form a well-informed opinion.. So if I wanted to vote, I'd have to pick one of the few mappers I know (prob. not the best idea D:)
Nao Tomori
hey i bubbled ppls maps too y'all better vote for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Kin
not the whole osu! player community is aware of the osu! modding community.
when a citizen vote for a new president he's supposed to be aware of every candidate.
but how can you be aware of the whole possible candidate when there's a lot of possibility, since the osu!modding community keeps growing.
Possible candidate should be restricted to a number with something.
Ak1o
Too bad noone knows about me and my superior mapping-knowledge, also about my dedication towards this community and therefore I will not get any votes whatsoever, oh well.

Regarding the experiment, I would guess that people will stick mostly to what they already know, so most of the votes would be given to current active BNs. Still excited to see who is appreciated most among them.
coco
vote me im a cute loli catgirl
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