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Apr 16, 2004, 07:57 PM
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This topic is getting very confusing, but I think useful discussion can happen. This post is to focus the subject.

There seem to be two discussions happening here. One relating to hypocrisy in edits, and the other relating to review standards. There is no need to continue with the first. People who have problems with Trafton's reviews can talk to him through private messaging.

The second was already discussed previously, but it could possibly continue here. The concern seems to be objective versus subjective reviews.

A subjective review is based on feelings and emotions. For example, "I really liked this level because it was fun when I played it in X's server and it uses my favorite tileset."

An objective review is based on critical analysis: how good it is from a technical perspective. For example, "This level has lots of eyecandy, making full use of Z tileset, and has good flow in a medium-size server but can get crowded at times."

The debate is whether subjective reviews should be allowed to have ratings that affect the average rating. Currently they cannot.
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