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Originally Posted by devonin
It's partly about not wanting to "waste" an mp3 we have permission for on a song that almost nobody will play, and maybe a certain element of professional pride in work that makes people not want to make something incredibly simple and boring by the standards of 99% of the active playerbase.
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It goes without saying that this is also a mentality that should not only disappear, but is also toxic to the lower level players of the game (not saying you're an advocate of this or that you're the reason why I'm saying it, it just reminded me of it).
Players who are newer to the game deserve really good songs too. At any point, a stepartist can easily take their own approach to a chart and make an extremely toned down, easily accented version and make it a [Beginner] difficulty or something of the like.
As far as previous batches, the reason behind not getting things accepted likely coincides with the fact that anyone can really make a file like this with minimal effort and as a result, it's an easy way to get your submission cap from 2 to 5, which can then be lead to an inundation of low-quality files in the future (this is of course divorced from the fact that people submitting might also be R1 Simfile Author already, just a theory).
It might be necessary to institute a contingent requirement for achieving the R1 Simfile Author title beyond simply getting a file in game, because we cannot have users being left uncredited for their efforts.
EDIT: for clarification, i'm not saying it should take more than one file to get the title either - I'm saying that the file submitted might need to hit some sort of standard to be qualifying as worthy for the title.