simfiles rated 1? what am i going wrong

[G-Spot]

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[Gundam-Dude]

By making this thread you're only gaining the following out of this:

- Well constructive criticism about your files as well as possible reasons why your file was seemingly bad

- More low ratings

But pretty much everything's been covered in the previous posts.

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This thread should have been locked right after jimerax's post.

[Mr. Bob]

next person to post after me is ugly

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Originally Posted by o0nene9i

hey~
i have noticed that more or less within the space of an hour or so someone has done through a chunk of my simfiles and rated them 1! What am i going wrong, there was not even a comment explaining what they did not like about it and if there was something wrong. If you are doing it for fun or to ruin my simfiles DO NOT DO IT! Its wrecked most of my simfiles with a good rating before and now it has happened again (yes this happened before to me with the exact same thing i come back after an hour and a huge chunk of my simfiles most recently added on ffr have been rated 1 with no comments as to why!)

Here are two of my simfiles that had good positive comments and good ratings before this happened, test them for yourself, do you think they deserve this?:
This one had a rating of 10 now 5.5 because of this:
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?songid=30683
This one had positive comments and then out of the blue a 1:
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...p?songid=30828
If you need more examples or want me to post this links to all of the simfiles this has happened to just say and i will.

Here are i few reasons why someone may rate them 1 and how to solve them:
Song choice - If you do not like the song, simple do not download it.
My stepping style - If you do not like it either say in comments or do not download it.
Banner or background does not display properly - change settings in SM to 1280x768 and they will display fine (i only do banners 418x156 because they are higher quality)
Sim to difficult - practice, get better and try again
Not checked - ffr does this from time to time it does not mean theres something wrong with the simfile.
More than 2 keys at the one time - I do hard simfiles and most hard simfiles you would expect hard patterns this included pressing 3 or more keys at the one time so..in SM go to options and change the keys to something like a,s,up,right.
Video blurry - large high quality videos make SM lag like crazy so small low-ish quality videos are best like most people would tell you.

Im a open person so comments saying what you did not like about, for example, streams, jacks, jumps, patterns. Or if you want to suggest how to make it better instead of going 1,1,1,1,1,1 on all my files tell me either on my profile page or in the simfile comments. Yes i check ffr often for ratings and comments.

First off your files could eb perfect and some loser will still find it funny to rate them all 1/10's. I've had simfiles with like 3 10/10's and 2 1/10's. It obviously doesn't help the overall rating at all. Best thign to do is ignor it. There really should be a better rating system though. The present system is flawed to such a huge degree.

An ideal system would look like this:

1.) Authors can't rate their own sim.
2.) It takes at least 5 votes for a rating to be displayed.
3.) If one vote is WAY off from the other's average it's not included in the overal average.

When people download sims they should know that frequently the displayed rating doesn't accurately reflect the sim's quality. I hope it doesn't affect your downloads .

Originally Posted by Mr. Bob

i also noticed in your post that you say that "(i only do banners 418x156 because they are higher quality) [o0nene9i 1]. lol mla
this isn't true at all kwmdlkmw

If it's proportionate to standard demensions it should 500x156 not 418.

Originally Posted by Mr. Bob

forgot one thing:
if you only listen to positive comments, your files will never get better. this applies to anything. take what irishknight said and stop being so up tight about it all

Eh, sorry for the triple post. I don't feel like editting the first one.

But I just wanted to comment that it's the same way with bodybuilding: "cimpliments destroy a bodybuilder, but criticism builds one).

My calves are very far behind. Now I want you all to be nice and think of the worst comment you can think of about that. Please tell me in the most negative way.

Thanks =).

*edit for fear of a quadruple post*

Originally Posted by Mr. Bob

next person to post after me is ugly

Damn I didn't read that lol.

=P

[jimerax]

stop triple posting/bumping dead thread