Specifics/Details: Ok so I've seen a few threads recently around suggesting changes to some of the ratings explanatory tags so I am proposing a review and update of the tags.
We currently have 35 tags available when leaving ratings for our opponents. These tags are Quick or Slow, Deadbeat, Friendly, Funny, Helpful, Talkative or Silent, Rude, Complainer, Paranoid, Bully, Trustworthy or Backstabber, Good Teammate or Bad Teammate, Teammate Killer, Cooperative or Uncooperative, Brave or Coward, Irrational, Reckless, Suicider, Vindictive, Sore Loser, Quitter, Clueless, Balanced Play, Secret Diplomacy, Cheap Tactics, Leader or Follower, Good Strategy or Poor Strategy.
I believe that some of these are irrelevant, unneccessary, pointless, and we could use some new ones, as well as removing some of the current ones. It would be beneficial if there was some way to collect data and log how many times each tag has been used since the ratings system came out.
Explanatory tags I have scrutinised (with notes), there are eight in total.
- Cooperative or Uncooperative - I don't think we need these two tags as you could use Good Teammate or Bad Teammate. If you are talking about non-team games I think that these tags are irrelevant. We could quite easily find other tags to replace these two tags.
- Irrational - Matter of opinion as to what is, or is not, rational surely? This could also be thrown in with Reckless below. Make way for a new tag?
- Reckless, Suicider - These two are kind of similar or could at least be misconstrued as the same sort of thing. Could we not remove one?
- Vindictive, Sore Loser - These two are also kind of similar. Vindictive could be changed to "Bad Sport" or "Poor Sportsmanship".
- Secret Diplomacy - For me, the most controversial tag. If you rate a player and use this tag you should be filing a C&A report and the player should be banned. If you don't then you are just throwing accusations about. Therefore this tag is unneccesary and, in my opinion, should be removed.
Proposed changes to the explanatory tags.
- Remove six of the eight explanatory tags above and/or replace them with new ones.
- As of now, I am not going to list any, but new tags such as "magnaminous", "noble", or "honourable" are some that I have been thinking about.
- It would be great to have lots of input and ideas from the community.
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments: A much more relevant and "user friendly" ratings system. Besides, it's always good to be updated.
That's my thoughts, all input and feedback is welcome!