Yo....??!!
what did i miss and who is Zerg!!??
why out of no where did you do that!??

So maybe NOT so Deja Vu, atleast we have a 1 bandit getting flamed for his actions.
in DPs past thread, he was being "passive Aggressive", here, we get to the root.
Do tell....

lol i don't want my squads to be in top, only got 2 squads created on june!! no, i don't have the envy you have, i don't rate my squads a 10 and i don't rate others 1s like you and your littlefriends usually do;

yea you should talk pal all your accounts

I still believe the biggest "flaw" in the rating system are the raters, not the 1 bandits. I submit to you the current top 5 list of squads in the 200 pt format. I know, some of these are winning for some of you locally, but seriously, they aren't what I would call the best of the best. Many of them have plenty of ratings already that easily offsets any 1s, and yet they are still there. Until you can fix the rating system, worrying about who rates a 1 and who rates a 10 is insignificant.

Oh and to the guy who had issues with me giving my own squads a 10. You need to look at how many squads I have posted. For quite a while, I had at least one person rating me with 1 the moment I posted. So I gave up rating my own accurately and use my one vote to offset one of the sure to come 1 votes. Remember, a 10 and a 1 becomes 2 5s, so neither ends up being significant. But I do have one squad with 30 ones on it alone, and it won Gencon. Perhaps the "50" you claimed to have looked through were not a very good sample size. Also, you should note that many times, the second vote is a 2 or a 3 as well, not always just ones. The effects are similar.

1 vote rarely makes a significant effect, you all stress out way to much over it. Just use the rating system for what it's meant for, entertainment. Nothing more. It won't ever tell you what the best squads are, because community wide votes will never tell you that. Further, random sampling of voters is even less predictable in this way. I'm sorry to say it, but most of the ratings people give out are not very informed, come from players who aren't playing the game at the top levels, and who have quirky ideas of what is "good". And that isn't a criticism of them either. That's just the reality of letting everyone vote.

I look at it this way. If there are say 10% of players who can play the game at the top levels, why would I expect a top level squad to be understood and rated properly by the other 90% of voters? They aren't capable of giving that information, so expecting it is a false expectation on our parts. Case in point, a Darth Revan squad is currently tops in 200, why because fanboys love Revan, and they don't know what a top tier squad should look like, and won't recognize one even when they see it. So stop expecting the rating system to do anything more than it currently does.

Zerg is the father of Buzz Lightyear.

Unless he's using the name of a race of beings in StarCraft...in which case would make him a schizofrenic.

sigh

Deja Vu, for about the fourth time.

Billiv really is spot on. Public ratings will do nothing other that foster fueds, and the raters are nowhere near consistant. I'm sure most of you would think I am too harsh, when the bulk of my ratings are 5s and 6s. 7 is about the highest I will rate a squad if I really like it. 8, 9, and 10s all either need to be proven, or be something new that I really think is fun and competitive. I think I have only rated less than 10 squads a 10 and less than 25 a 9.

after all, anything that is publicized will be critiqued.
how can one make a better squad if there is no one to give suggestions?
i say we can the ratings, and only work with feedback. its possible.

thanks for posting this in here i was going to but you beat me to it