Dear community,
I have recently taken time to browse through a few mapping threads and maps themselves, usually of what the community deems to be of lower quality. These maps, no matter how much they are against the rules of submission, get responded to with a ludicrously harsh treatment from all "reviewers" in mapping.
Let me give you a few anonymous quotations that I have seen in ONE thread.
No, no and no.
Instead of naively proposing another rule which has no chance to even get to ML, I would like to deliver a message to all users who decide to ever comment a map.
1) What you do is not constructive criticism. Instead of telling someone how much he or his map sucks, point him out what he needs to improve. Telling someone it simply sucks, even if it's obvious why, is fucking unnecessary. Telling him what he needs to correct/improve and how he can do it, is what you call being constructive.
2) Trolling him, assaulting the submitter as a person just because he submitted a map with mistakes does not make you a "reviewer", instead it makes you a rule violator just as much as the submitter is, believe me I could troll you back for it just as much.
Show at least a bit more friendliness instead of yelling "USELESS SHIT BURN BURN". Point out why it is useless, point out why it needs to burn, use a civil tone and try not to discourage the user from mapping entirely. I do imagine none of you oh-so-skilled map reviewers began as "professionals" either.
There's a person on the other side and you won't get promoted to staff just because you post in every map thread. The content is relevant, not the existence of the post, if you really wish to help.
I have recently taken time to browse through a few mapping threads and maps themselves, usually of what the community deems to be of lower quality. These maps, no matter how much they are against the rules of submission, get responded to with a ludicrously harsh treatment from all "reviewers" in mapping.
Let me give you a few anonymous quotations that I have seen in ONE thread.
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you call that a description? i call it a map screaming "Reject me!!"
Reject, delete and burn.
"Burn "Burn
P.S Map is a dump ;
Burn in hell, you wretched fool of a map!
Who uploaded this needs to get laid.
Please reject and stuck this map up somewhere dark.
No, no and no.
Instead of naively proposing another rule which has no chance to even get to ML, I would like to deliver a message to all users who decide to ever comment a map.
1) What you do is not constructive criticism. Instead of telling someone how much he or his map sucks, point him out what he needs to improve. Telling someone it simply sucks, even if it's obvious why, is fucking unnecessary. Telling him what he needs to correct/improve and how he can do it, is what you call being constructive.
2) Trolling him, assaulting the submitter as a person just because he submitted a map with mistakes does not make you a "reviewer", instead it makes you a rule violator just as much as the submitter is, believe me I could troll you back for it just as much.
Show at least a bit more friendliness instead of yelling "USELESS SHIT BURN BURN". Point out why it is useless, point out why it needs to burn, use a civil tone and try not to discourage the user from mapping entirely. I do imagine none of you oh-so-skilled map reviewers began as "professionals" either.
There's a person on the other side and you won't get promoted to staff just because you post in every map thread. The content is relevant, not the existence of the post, if you really wish to help.