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Re: The leveling system

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:26:40 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/13/2014 14:26

albummaster wrote:

The latter option is probably better as not everyone would sift through comments just to upvote/downvote them.

Re: The leveling system

albummaster — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 05:13:52 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 03/13/2014 09:13

MrFrogger wrote:

Man, it creates some pretty fantastic comments, such as "Great Song" and "Decent Song". Oh and thousands more exactly like it.

Agree, it gets misused. The 'helpful' comment voting system was implemented to try and police this but it's not really working as intended. I can see the system being changed soon, with possibly only up-voted comments counting for points, or the points per comment being reduced to counteract people trying to game the system. Also, on my list is more active monitoring to check for people spamming the system - perhaps a hall of fame to show users with the average shortest comment, their number of unique words, or the number of comments added in the last 24 hours per user (or a combination of all of this).

Site rule 8: BestEverAlbums uses a points system to determine the functionality that is available to each member. Forum posts, comments or ratings may be removed if they are deemed to be made to artificially inflate a member's score and/or are not adding to the discussion. Members who are found to be doing this on a frequent basis may be banned from the site.

Re: The leveling system

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:53:37 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/12/2014 23:53

MrFrogger wrote:

You've left over 4,000 comments, the most of any user ever. Basically what i'm saying is please stop, you're just producing garbage.

Cartesius wrote:

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Re: The leveling system

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:51:49 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/12/2014 23:51

@Precedent

Your comments were really sad man, although I don't like some comments like "this is sure not better than the 'critically acclaimed album by the band' ", at least they give me an idea of what to listen, just saying it's good or bad just makes me mad. and your comments would be on every single album and some songs I went to check out 🤣

I do apreciate comments like the style/genre of the songs, a feeling you got when listening to it or some history of what you were through and that song/album accompanied you through it.

Re: The leveling system

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:17:03 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/12/2014 23:17

MrFrogger wrote:

You've left over 4,000 comments, the most of any user ever. Basically what i'm saying is please stop, you're just producing garbage.

I figured that people were annoyed by them. I've let up on the mass commenting. 😄

Re: The leveling system

MrFrogger — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:15:43 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 03/12/2014 23:15

Precedent wrote:

:party:

You've left over 4,000 comments, the most of any user ever. Basically what i'm saying is please stop, you're just producing garbage.

Re: The leveling system

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:08:41 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/12/2014 23:08

MrFrogger wrote:

Man, it creates some pretty fantastic comments, such as "Great Song" and "Decent Song". Oh and thousands more exactly like it.

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Re: The leveling system

MrFrogger — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:07:28 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 03/12/2014 23:07

Precedent wrote:

The point system is fantastic, pretty easy actually. Comment on songs, albums, etc.

Man, it creates some pretty fantastic comments, such as "Great Song" and "Decent Song". Oh and thousands more exactly like it.

Re: The leveling system

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:05:32 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/12/2014 23:05

I think that having to level to contribute more is kind of a ridiculous system, but it's also incredibly easy. I've been here for maybe a day and a half and am 76 points from Level 5 (76 points I've probably earned since the last point server reset).

Re: The leveling system

albummaster — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:53:40 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 03/11/2014 13:53

antiloopje wrote:

I do agree that points should be given instantaneously and not after a few hours, that should help new users a lot.

I definitely understand that it could be a source of frustration having to wait a few hours for the stats to be recalculated. The main reason for the current time interval is to ease the load on the server as calculating the stats for the whole site is computationally expensive. I'll look to see if these can be updated more frequently.

Re: The leveling system

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:13:51 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/11/2014 13:13

The point system is fantastic, pretty easy actually. Comment on songs, albums, etc.

Re: The leveling system

mickilennial — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 05:42:12 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 03/11/2014 09:42

Point system as it stands also rewards user interaction/involvement/socialization.

Re: The leveling system

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 05:24:01 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/11/2014 09:24

Maybe I'm only saying this because I'm now level 8, but I don't think the leveling system is too harsh.

I actually think the system might benefit forum users too much, as 2 points per posts seems quite high and doesn't always encourage thoughtful discussion, but otherwise it seems fair.

I gained 2,500 points in around a week through mod points, just 10 minutes here and there improving the database. Mod points are easy points and make a huge difference to the site. If leveling up is your aim, I highly recommend heading over to Newly Added Albums and making changing where you can.

As for automatically awarding points, it only takes a few hours, just have a little patience, it would probably be quite stressful for the servers to constantly update each user's points.

Re: The leveling system

Tradex — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 05:15:01 GMT

Author: Tradex

Posted: 03/11/2014 09:15

Each forum post: 2pts
Each comment: 2pts
Each chart entry: 2pts
Each mod update: 1pt
Each rating: ½pt

I'd agree with you to be honest but it keeps people here so oh well (:

Re: The leveling system

antiloopje — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 05:13:55 GMT

Author: antiloopje

Posted: 03/11/2014 09:13

The leveling system is designed to reward users for their contributions to the site. It may be annoying for new users if they can only make a small chart of 40 entries. An easy way to quickly gain more points is rating all songs on the albums in your chart and make some comments on the albums you like most. If you do this even for only 50 albums, you can easily get around 350 points + 100 points for your 50 entries. Making a few additional ratings, comments and forum posts can get you to level 4 (and a 100 entry chart) within a day or two. I do agree that points should be given instantaneously and not after a few hours, that should help new users a lot.

Re: The leveling system

Hammy — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:28:32 GMT

Author: Hammy

Posted: 03/11/2014 07:28

Onlyhalfretarded wrote:

Side note. Do you only get points on commenting/rating charts or do album rating/commenting count

Both and 2 points for forum posts.

The leveling system

notsquib — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:15:18 GMT

Author: notsquib

Posted: 03/11/2014 06:15

The leveling system is extremely annoying and bothersome. The leap between levels is too big and it doesn't really give much more per level. It's also frustrating that it doesn't automatically give you the points when you do things.

Side note. Do you only get points on commenting/rating charts or do album rating/commenting count