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SG - ASoH Character Ratings Cleanup
Topic Started: Sep 12 2009, 08:07 PM (301 Views)
C.T
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I'll be cleaning up and removing blatant or obvious non-legit ratings that are currently on the SCIV CaS site (Soul Gateway - Another Stage of History).

What prompted me to investigate the ratings was the absurdly high amount of low ratings given to nearly every character on the site.

And already after 3 pages into the 700ish ratings, look what I discovered:

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I will mostly only be removing ratings from IPs which rate all characters the same or same series of ratings. Everything else will most likely stay, depending how legit it looks. This does not only include people who rate every character too lowly, it also includes people who rate them too highly.

After the cleanup, expect ratings to be more realistic and not be plagued with non-legit ratings. IPs of the evil doers will additionally be banned from rating in the future.
Update: Cleanup is finished and IPs banned.

The results are remarkable after all the non-legit ratings are removed. Some characters with 3 stars are now 4.5+ stars, and 1 star characters no longer exists. I only wish I would've done this much sooner. >_<
Edited by C.T, Sep 12 2009, 08:58 PM.
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Wow, jealous of the site and characters much? Only losers would bother going out and rating every character 1 star just to make themselves feel better. <_< I'm glad you got rid of those ratings and banned the IPs.
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Sep 13 2009, 09:12 AM
Wow, jealous of the site and characters much? Only losers would bother going out and rating every character 1 star just to make themselves feel better. <_< I'm glad you got rid of those ratings and banned the IPs.
...Or probably it was some douche who's bored and likes nothing but bother. I've
seen these type of people they don't know what to do through the day so they
just do something destructive or non-beneficial/productive to everyone even to
themselves :/

I've also met them in person. <_<

Dampierre...anyone? lol XD
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Kaneco's original SCIII's CaS ;)

http://s14.zetaboards.com/SC3_CaS_Forum/topic/156390

Kaneco's original SCIV's CaS ;)

http://s14.zetaboards.com/SC3_CaS_Forum/topic/6516809

Kaneco's original SC: BD's CaS ;)

http://s14.zetaboards.com/SC3_CaS_Forum/topic/6584482

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Scary part or what angered me the most was there were much more than one instance of the 1 staring every character. Meaning it was either a group of different people, or one person who somehow was able to change their IPs up to 4+ times. Hence, even characters that are rated 4-5 stars say 8 times will still get severely hampered by the 1 star ratings.

Oppositely, I did not discover any noticeable favoritism in the ratings (rating a mass/all characters a really high score, etc.)

I've decided that instead of just banning them from rating, I will be banning them from the site completely. Meaning absolutely no access to it whatsoever. This is probably one of the most annoying things I've come across and it simply makes me really mad. Especially since I thought the absurdly low ratings were actually legit for awhile.
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Hey wait Kristof on that list he a legit user...
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those are the characters names, i have a character named that too.
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Sep 13 2009, 03:45 PM
Hey wait Kristof on that list he a legit user...
It's ratings of the characters, has nothing to do with the creators. You can see in the screenshot that the 208.131.25.165 IP has rated all of those characters (or should I say practically every single character on the site) a 1 star.
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Fucking haters. They should find something better to do. <_< Probably losers/loners irl.
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I have had to personally deal with haters myself and I get them nearly everywhere I go (websites, forums, youtube, myspace, you name it). I just tend to ignore them and then report them for hateful behavior. They tend to be hateful because they don't wish to see you get loved or popular. I think nearly everybody has some sort of haters at one point. That's not to say this awesome site/forums should be getting any, of course. :)
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Sep 14 2009, 02:56 PM
I have had to personally deal with haters myself and I get them nearly everywhere I go (websites, forums, youtube, myspace, you name it). I just tend to ignore them and then report them for hateful behavior. They tend to be hateful because they don't wish to see you get loved or popular. I think nearly everybody has some sort of haters at one point. That's not to say this awesome site/forums should be getting any, of course. :)
Funny you should mention YouTube, because out of all my personal public efforts that had a big turnout, I generate the least amount of hate on YouTube. Which is weird as YouTube is known to be a prominent home of haters. I think the only real hater I had was someone labeling me a noob because he thought I was playing a game on easy difficulty, when it was infact played on a high difficulty but had me massacring everything. <_<

That reminds me of the biggest hate that came from the SCIII CaS site during its early periods, when the submissions system was new (but unprofessional) and I was trying my best to put up as much user submissions as possible while still putting up my own creations. Try reading the Greatest Hate E-Mail thread.

I wonder if the 1 star raters are actually Will and his buddies, hmmm? :hmm:

I placed this bit of info on the front of the site, so it keeps potential haters and rating abusers highly warned.
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