The Problem with Dislikes

codrey · May 31, 2016

Stig said: ↑

so if i remove 95% of your current likes/plays and subs on your database accounts (all of them), and restrict your tracks from ever coming on newest/hot/trending/featured, you say wouldn't care?
another relevant question is; if i stole your best track now, uploaded it on another account, deleted it from yours, and claimed it as mine? would you still not care? since you dont care that people play it or give you recognition? (maple would still know you made it, so you would still get his cc tho)

dont say no, because then we both know you're just pretending (since you delete forum posts to maintain a like-ratio (yes i can see deleted content), you must atleast care about likes on the forums, which makes your claims even more questionable, no offence)

and yea, we should scrap the dislike button, but we cant just only have the like button either, that would make it hard to separate tracks by recent popularity etcetc :/
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Im unsure what restricting my tracks from getting onto the different sections has to do with likes but ok
I have hardly any of those things on Volund anyways so I honestly wouldnt be that fussed, and if you did it to codrey then i would be thankful lol. And dont say that I do care, bcos if I did would I not have made heaps more shitty 5 second long tracks promoting liking and subbing? If you took my track and uploaded it I would quite obviously be annoyed, but I would still appreciate the cc given by Maple. But ultimately yes, I wouldnt appreciate it. Although again I dont see how hypothetically stealing a track is relevant with getting or not getting likes

Lmao I have like 2k more likes than msgs, the few comments I delete are usually cringe or controversial, of which I am not a fan of either. A fantastic example of this is just yesterday when I spoke with the_rider about tc and received 0 likes on something like 5 or 6 msgs. If I truly cared about likes I wouldnt have posted that many. And forums dont equate with in game honestly

Yeah lol I realised after I posted how having one without the other wouldnt work. Oh well

weem · May 31, 2016

#bringbacktrackmillvotingsystem

Flying_T_Rex · May 31, 2016

I know what a good track is and what a bad track is and I vote on every track that I play and I vote appropriately.

DylanNair · May 31, 2016

zeke15 said: ↑

So I have been playing FreeRiderHD for almost two years now. I Love this game to death and have decided to start putting way more time into it lately. As I have gotten better, easy plain old jump tracks and smooth lines started to get boring. I dove into the world of trials, playing them all the time and even beginning to make my own. As tracks got more difficult, I got better and pushed myself to overcome challenging tracks. Along with this, I began to notice a pattern within FreeRiderHD:

Many very challenging or technical tracks have gotten horrible ratings and votes. Even when authors put loads of time into detail and presentation, if the track is remotely difficult, it seems to get tons of dislikes. I have experienced this with some of my own tracks, and even some of my friends such as GamingHunter feel this as well. I am sure many of you reading this may have felt or noticed this too. There are many people out there who dislike a track just because they can't beat it, just because it is hard. They completely disregard the effort put into it by the author. A track should never be labeled "too hard", or even hard enough that you "dislike" it. If anything, you should just "not like it". There is a difference. It is often times the difference between a 60% rating and a 90% rating on a track. There is a solution though

I know this has been proposed by multiple people and has been argued many times, but you should have to beat a track to rate it. That is the only way you can give a fair judgment of how you liked it. If this hate for difficult tracks continues, would even think to go as far as proposing the removal of the dislike button completely, leaving only the option to "like" a track or do nothing at all.

Propositions like this shouldn't be needed though. They are drastic and unnecessary. They are an extra burden on the staff. More angry riders to deal with, and more work for Char and Eric and Stig . So why don't we solve this ourselves, as a community. I challenge every rider out there to start judging tracks fairly. View them not by their difficulty, but rather by their style, by the effort the author puts into them, by the detail and thought behind the lines you see. I dare all of you reading this to begin a new age of FreeRiderHD!

(Okay I may have gotten a little too inspirational now, but seriously, listen to me)
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WOW I started playing almost 2 years ago aswell

spruce · May 31, 2016

Give a few c ok s to players after they rate a track. 2 or 3 sounds good to me.

XYZmystery · Jun 4, 2016

zeke15 said: ↑

So I have been playing FreeRiderHD for almost two years now. I Love this game to death and have decided to start putting way more time into it lately. As I have gotten better, easy plain old jump tracks and smooth lines started to get boring. I dove into the world of trials, playing them all the time and even beginning to make my own. As tracks got more difficult, I got better and pushed myself to overcome challenging tracks. Along with this, I began to notice a pattern within FreeRiderHD:

Many very challenging or technical tracks have gotten horrible ratings and votes. Even when authors put loads of time into detail and presentation, if the track is remotely difficult, it seems to get tons of dislikes. I have experienced this with some of my own tracks, and even some of my friends such as GamingHunter feel this as well. I am sure many of you reading this may have felt or noticed this too. There are many people out there who dislike a track just because they can't beat it, just because it is hard. They completely disregard the effort put into it by the author. A track should never be labeled "too hard", or even hard enough that you "dislike" it. If anything, you should just "not like it". There is a difference. It is often times the difference between a 60% rating and a 90% rating on a track. There is a solution though

I know this has been proposed by multiple people and has been argued many times, but you should have to beat a track to rate it. That is the only way you can give a fair judgment of how you liked it. If this hate for difficult tracks continues, would even think to go as far as proposing the removal of the dislike button completely, leaving only the option to "like" a track or do nothing at all.

Propositions like this shouldn't be needed though. They are drastic and unnecessary. They are an extra burden on the staff. More angry riders to deal with, and more work for Char and Eric and Stig . So why don't we solve this ourselves, as a community. I challenge every rider out there to start judging tracks fairly. View them not by their difficulty, but rather by their style, by the effort the author puts into them, by the detail and thought behind the lines you see. I dare all of you reading this to begin a new age of FreeRiderHD!

(Okay I may have gotten a little too inspirational now, but seriously, listen to me)
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Going to be honest... I voted no thinking that everyone would not take this seriously and was sorely disappointed in our community. I just lost respect for everyone that voted yes

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The Problem with Dislikes

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