Quote from Spam Nugget on September 22, 2011, 6:04 am

MasterLagger wrote:

I uploaded a WIP earlier and about 10 min later someone rates the map without downloading it (I could tell because the total downloads was still 0). The rating was 4/5, but that's not what's bothering me. Is this some sort of sick joke?

So tempted to rating spam right now....

Quote from Vordwann on September 22, 2011, 6:37 am

Well MasterLagger, I suppose you could consider everything that iWork says to be sarcasm, and then that would be a justification for everything he says, but most times he's just acting like a 5th grader. I actually don't know how good of a mapper is as i've only played a collab. map that he helped work on.

Quote from ChickenMobile on September 22, 2011, 7:36 am

Vordwann wrote:

Well MasterLagger, I suppose you could consider everything that iWork says to be sarcasm, and then that would be a justification for everything he says, but most times he's just acting like a 5th grader. I actually don't know how good of a mapper is as i've only played a collab. map that he helped work on.

You mean the collab map which he completely made by himself.

EDIT: I thought you meant TeamCitruz's map not shawy's.

Quote from iWork925 on September 22, 2011, 7:41 am

Why everyone haten on me?

Quote from Another Bad Pun on September 22, 2011, 7:59 am

Because you be haten on us. [spoiler]actually you have almost nothing against me so yay... Wait now i remember that really long and stupid post i wrote and now i feel embaresed and want to hide[/spoiler]

^lolwut

Quote from MasterLagger on September 22, 2011, 7:30 pm

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iWork925 wrote:

MasterLagger wrote:

People that don't have accounts can rate also can't they?

Don't think so. Unless something has changed recently.

[spoiler]Unfortunatly you can rate as any user, as I spammed voted once as sleeper.[/spoiler]

Aww, then whoever did it could cover their tracks.

Vordwann wrote:

Well MasterLagger, I suppose you could consider everything that iWork says to be sarcasm, and then that would be a justification for everything he says, but most times he's just acting like a 5th grader. I actually don't know how good of a mapper is as i've only played a collab. map that he helped work on.

I don't just think everything he says is sarcasm, just for that one post. Compared to his verbal abuse on the Showcasing thread, THAT was out of line.

iWork925 wrote:

Verbal? Its obviously written.

The joke's on iWork anyway, Verbal abuse is anything said, written, or typed.

Quote from WinstonSmith on September 23, 2011, 12:20 am

I'm locking this thread for now. While I don't have the time at the moment, tomorrow I'll write out a longer reply answering a few questions.

Quote from WinstonSmith on September 27, 2011, 10:26 pm

Alright, so it took a little longer to write this up.

In any case, yes, the current DLDB software has a few flaws. It is, as has been noted, possible with some difficulty to forge ratings for maps. To be completely honest, I'd just ignore the ratings in favor of forum comments, mainly for two reasons. First, since it's bugged we can't guarantee it's accurate, and second, forum comments give much more accurate feedback.

We are working on a new DLDB system. However, there are a few challenges. First, none of us really have any free time, and those that do (mostly just me I think) don't have nearly enough experience with PHP to write up a new one, much less one that hooks into the existing threads, data tables, and files on our hosting mirror.

But all of this has been stated before. Thanks for sticking with us, we're trying to keep things up and running as best we can. A new spotlight should be coming within the week, and look for more ahead.