wait uggie demo, wasnt it your RL friend rating squads 1s for the longest time.

to the op crymore seriously its a game.

See this is my main issue with the rating system.. its a gift & a curse. Its a gift in a sense that if a squad is rated good, it will good noticed more than usual. Its a curse that when someone drops a 1 after 1 after 1 with no comment, the squad gets lost in the site, when people see low ratings they dont even bother looking at the squad.

I think the squad builder on this site is smart & amazing. It keeps us players talking about new idea's, giving each other prop's on a good build. So taking away ratings on the squad builder i would say is a no no. Why do that? If you make it to where you have to leave a comment, than the 1 ratings with no comment will drop, i know this. These people are cowards & dont want to be noticed or known for the person doing it.

As for saying stop crying? 1 thats uncalled for. 2 if you have no problem with the rating system then you have no buisness even reading this thread. 3, i know when i spend 20 minutes on studying good syrnegy for a squad, coming up with idea's & what not, taking my time to build a good squad, & then before i can even make it public its getting a 1 with no comment, its like the 20 minutes i just spent building that squad was wasted. For what? Whats the point? Shinja made the thing to help eachother out & regardless if you have a problem with the rating system or not, its disrespective to us players & to shinja, Plain & simple.

Noone's crying, i feel a great option on a site is being ruined by these duchebags. I made a squad about 5 days ago which got a 4 rating, but someone commented on why it got a 4 rating & i thanked that person for even leaving a comment. Just the comment alone meant something because he explained why i got that rating he also explained additional ways to go with the squad. Thats why the squad builder is there. It isnt there to get your squad top rated. It just so happens that your squad will get the more feedback if rated good & on top so yea we all shoot for them spots.

Then these guys come & unbalance the whole option of the squad builder. Im telling you, make it to where you have to leave a comment & it slow down. Ratings wont stop either, because the majority of the people leave a comment. I believe its a select few that do this. Also when someone is mad or dont like someone they do this. Why not just stop it all together & make comments manditory?

So to say anyones crying about it is off, dont read a thread if the interest doesnt spark with yours. From you coming in & saying stuff like that makes me think that it could be you doing this & your drawing attention off the topic. But then again it can be any one of us which it is any one of us who do this. I say just have to leave a comment & it will be solved.

i dont want to get into the debate of the point of this thread, but i will say this.
someone is going way out of their way to score squads at a 1. now I, personally, do not care about the scoring of my armies. its really trivial to be honest. i would rather feel proud of my success with my squads victory, then to have the highest rating on this site.
but like i said, someone is scoring 1s, and alot of them at that. if these guys want to waste their time doing this, i say let em. yea, yea, i know, thats ridiculous of me to say this shite, but like i said earlier in the thread, no matter what, people will do this.
its not a hot bed issue. take it for what its worth.....nothing.

there's always gonna be punk mother f---ers ready to p--s in your oatmeal and start a fight

I didnt say if anyone disagreed with my opinion they are wrong, i said if the topic of this thread doesnt affect you, then you have no buisness reading it then, im not gonna get into a long debate with you again, Im just gonna say this to you, you said you made it a habbit not to read what i write, so im gonna say stick stronger with your words because i dont want you reading what i say.

ive been hit by the 1 bug too many times to count.
at first, it frustrated the jesus outta me, but then it kept happening. thats probably what got me to not caring anymore.
and for those who want to know who it is, shark the squad building section, watch for the random 1s, and look who is on the bottom of the screen with you. thats how i figured out who it was. and no, i will not say who it is. i will let them either stop, or bury themselves. if it continues, ill let Shinja and Chucka know. there is no point in instigating this any further.
"End, the Flame Wars will".

Have you stopped to think for a moment that it is possible that the reason you get so many negative ratings is because you make such a big deal about it? Some people just like making other people's day worse.

How many times do I have to say it. Requiring a comment WILL NOT STOP THE PROBLEM. In fact, comments will only lead to fueds. Can you seriously say that if you get comments like "This sux!!!!", "Loses to Bane", or "Squad was already made", that you will respect them. You will be in the minority.

As for being "lost", guess what. You have 10+ squads posted a DAY, you will quickly get lost in the shuffle no matter what. A forum post remains the best way to get constructive feedback.

Uggie brings up an excellent point.
i use Gears of War 2 as an example:
everytime Epic games finds a way to patch a "glitch", or a cheat, someone always finds a way to re-configure a new cheat (it doesnt help the fact either that when GoW2 came out, it wasnt 100%, therefore resulting in numerous patches for Glitchers)
its Murphys Law, usually whatever can go wrong, will.
i now use squad building only to enhance my squads. ill take ideas, mix them together, and run it. if it wins, Sweet! if it loses, well, back to the drawing board.
i will say that alot of you guys who have gotten the ones, didnt deserve them, cuz you guys make kick arse squads.

i say watch the squad building forum occassionally. i usually do it late at night when not many people are on. i check some of the squads that were recently commented on.
if i saw that 5 minutes ago a squad was rated an 8, and there were 8 people that had left a rating, and i go back, and then theres a 7 or a 6.5, that pretty much lets me know who did it.
even then its still not enough proof for the average joe, but its just enough proof for me.