just my 2 centavos
pishifat wrote:
im not sure how melancholy/posthomus/frozen etc are related to the rule either. they're not related to a username, they're just used by certain users frequently
the first two are correct, but the example pointed out in the original post is a more delicate case since the mapper’s name directly relates to it (ice -> frozen) while it has no relation to the song itself — which is why the topic is being brought up in the first place
i’d be ok with either tweaking the rule to adapt it to the guideline criteria UC has mentioned. i don’t see a need to fully kill it, but rather just modify it enough, as it would still prevents mappers from doing as Stefan mentioned but would also allow for more freedom on diff name-ign relation (and “map series” stuff as mentioned before)
also as a follow up to this paragraph UC said (that i can’t directly quote for some reason)
we should just remove the rule altogether instead, it was added at a time when star rating was actually useless, but now our sr's are usually pretty telling of what difficulty a map is so there's no real reason to keep it other than "some people didn't like username-only diffnames", which isn't a very good reason
i’d just like to bring up this set:
https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/87547#osu/253980
there’s no way of knowing which is the harder diff even with the current sr because of the mapper’s different mapping styles. it’s not weak reasoning at all.
if we’re going by checking sr we might aswell take Hollow Wings’ Kikoku Doukoku Jigokuraku and pitch it against whatever the most popular 5* farm map is right now while naming their respective diffs the mapper’s name (i’m aware it’s a kinda extreme example but that’s my point) it’ll be clear that it won’t make any sense to not keep this as at least a guideline
(last edit cuz 11 is an ugly number and wtf thats a lot of edits)