"Chart" not "Step"

[stargroup100]

This is a public service announcement to remind people to try to remember to use "chart" and "charting" instead of "step" or "stepping". For example, "I found a really cool song, so I decided to chart it." or "I decided to make a chart for that song I heard on the radio."

This is arguably being pretty anal but we need to start making the transition to break away from the connotation of being some adaptation of a dance game, which we are not. Stepping is an action done with feet, not with fingers. Arrows matter on a pad, which indicate direction of where the button is located, but they don't matter on a keyboard when you're playing spread-style. Our community has been around for many years now, and old habits are hard to break, but I think anything that is outdated (and ultimately detrimental to the game's image) should be fixed, especially if it requires virtually no major effort to do so.

EDIT: "map" also works too, or any other word as long as it sorta makes sense

[Untimely Friction]

but ffr is an adaptation of a dance game?

[YoshL]

i stepped a file
i stepped a song
i stepped a chart
i charted a step
i charted a file
i charted a chart
i charted a song
i sharted a shart

does it matter
ffr is an adaptation of a dance game. "flash flash revolution" vs. "dance dance revolution" there's a couple similarities

also, detrimental to the game's image is a good point if we had a more active userbase i think

[Satsuru]

i always say file

[Coolboyrulez0]

make a psa to remind me to care

[Wayward Vagabond]

nah still be steppin all day every day

[rCaliberGX]

I use them interchangeably depending on who I'm talking to

[choof]

does that make me a chartist

[choof]

i'm currently stepping a pretty sick chart how does that make you feel

[Gradiant]

Better call it Chartmania

[blindreper1179]

Now I can't step in front of a bus. =(

[Gundam-Dude]

so does anyone call the charter of rights the stepper of rights ??

[Hateandhatred]

very thread much not random thought material wow

Also, I'm simfiling.

[lurker]

shut up

[Fission]

Originally Posted by lurker

shut up

^^^^

[hi19hi19]

bitch please im an artiste

i say what i want about my art



my art is stepfiles u mad



i mean you could still step to them

with your feet

if u were good at it

[Buta-san]

So why keep other names like The Running Man.
Jacks to vibrate
Jumps to 2 hand push buttons
Hands.
And awhole bunch of other stuff Im not aware of.

[TC_Halogen]

The game that we are delivering content is usually for people to play is Stepmania. If they're not playing StepMania, they're playing on pad, which well... you know.

basic answer: neither chart nor step is incorrect

[rushyrulz]

just conform to osu and call everything maps

[Oni-Paranoia]

No one uses the term stepchart? "That song has a terrible stepchart"