tread this path carefully.
this issue is a HOT topic and will be watched for CoC violations

I think they should be able to be rated. If they fall out of grace, then so be it. I think by the time they get into the top spots, a few 1s won't hurt their rating much. Most have over a 50 votes already.
I don't think it will be an issue.

Another Thing, if a well known user breaks the rules on bloomilk, that non-well known users would break & get banned for really putting out a good example for bloomilk? Is it really worth letting these users get more pull on this site than others? What i can see will happen to this will be alot of users stop using bloomilk. Everyone including the moderators should have to abide by the same rules as everyone else. How is this fair?

I was on the urge of selling all of my mini's because i have children & needed the money untill a few friends talked me out of it. So i was gone for 2 months from this site. Only to come back to the same problems that i thought would of been changed now that almost had myself & alot others i know to stop using bloomilk because we seen no change.

So my question is this, is it really worth letting certain known users get away with what they want & everyone else has to abide by the rules? Because i can see again alot of members not using this site in the future if changes arent made.

I think they were talking about the Top Rated Squad List on this site(under the squads section) not just the Top 5 squads.

Know what uggie, since you wrote that i think thats what they thought i meant too. No this is for the Top10 rated squads of all time on bloomilk under the Top Rated squads. I think once you get on that list, people shouldnt be able to rate them anymore, they should only be able to comment.

I dont like the personal shots i had taken at me on this thread, which in my opinion these people should get warned about it.

Rules of Conduct for bloomilk. Rule # 2 states:

2) No personal attacks. Any of the conditions that contain baiting, trolling, harassment, inflammatory action towards member(s), leading to disruption causing flame wars will be edited or removed from posts containing them. This includes things like name calling. We are here to discuss the topic, not the poster and if someone violates this rule and/or verbally attacks you, don't feed into it by responding, immediately message a moderator.

Please keep in mind that within these forums are there to encourage positive experience for our members within the Bloomilk community


Now in the 2 rule of conduct, the 2 highlighted things were done to me & i did notify 2 moderators right away, but from what im thinking, no actions will be taken.

So thats why i said this is turning into WOTC site. Where the people with power are aloud to take shots at people & also Make accusaions against members & get away with it wherefore if someone of my status on here were to defend themselves & write back & take shot like these users i would be banned. Tell me how thats fair to all the users on this site without power like certain users have even though they arent moderators.

And when i say i had this done to me i do not mean the users Dean Miller & Bill V
Lol, they could take shots at me & i will shut up & listen because they are the best & i look up to them.

As for me i didnt take no cheap shots, no baiting call outs, nothing. I didnt break any rules of conduct, but i've had it done to me with alot of proof. We used to all get along on here & were all like family. Dean & Bill actually took time out of there day to explain stuff to me on Vassal, which is amazing. Why cant it go back to that? Instead certain users which i will not mention names have more Power than they had before & now they can do whatever they want because they know they wont be warned or banned. Now thats not right.

I stayed away from this site for the fear that i thought this would happen like this, i came back & my fears were right. So i think Shinja & the Moderators need to make some changes & whoever is not a moderator or Shinja, should tell everyone & i mean everyone on here including these users who are more well known that everyone has to abide by the same rules.

I love this site but my fear is that im not gonna be the only one who will think this is a problem & this site will loose alot of members & i would hate for that to happen because this site is my 2nd home i made so many good friends on here & them friends talked me out of selling my mini's & staying in the game. Now im considering to sell my mini's again because nothing has changed. So please for the love of God, make these changes on this site where it matters & thats in the Squad Building section, & do something about the 1 bandit issue. Because its doing nothing but starting fights, getting people banned & will continue to do so.

Unless you make leaving a Comment manditory when leaving a rating on a squad. Untill you do that, this squad is falling. To many people have way more power than others & it isnt right. This is the best site in the history of SWM's & still is, but them little changes would just put it over the top of that much better.

Ahh dean im sorry, i didnt fully read what you wrote sorry for the misunderstanding.

To answer your question, yea i think people even sending pm's to give there squad a 10 should be given a warning. Finding out who a 1 bomber is, maybe not banned but given a warning. But if they keep doing so then ban them yes.

I think also once a squad reaches the top squads of all time, once there they should only be able to be commented on, not rated anymore.

The one bombing thing, i think some or most of us know who they are, i think Shinja really knows & i think he should send them a Warning. Because its not fair for someone to put in the work on a squad only to get the 1 after 1 after 1 after 1 & then there squad gets not public notice.

Me personally i dont care about the 1's anymore. I care about getting a 1 when theres no comment behind it, or even getting a 10 with no comment behind it. Squad builder is there so that we can help that person get there squad better. People want the input. Getting the top 5 spot is a good achievment but you shouldnt just focus on that.

Now if it reaches the top 10 of all time rated wise, then yea you should take pride.

But i just think theres alot of stuff that still needs work on this site period. & it all goes back to the Squad builder. Now my other thing is, if your not a moderator or Aaron (Shinja) then you should be treated the same as everyone else who is not one either. I dont care about how good or well known you are in the game. The same punishment for baiting & starting flame wars should be enforced on everyone.

Sorry Dean i didnt understand what you meant at first.

Understood Joel, & your another person i listen to because of your expierence & IMO a really great player, but my point is this, Yea these squads on the top 10 of all time may of not been the best but they got voted to be. & it takes alot of ratings to get there.

So just because someone thinks it didnt deserve to be there then they should of voted otherwise when it was there to vote on. The top10 of all time isnt for squads that are good now or even great then. Its for squads who people thought were good then. Weither they misunderstood what could beat them or whatever it may be. They were voted highly.

Read this.

Top Rated Squads
These squads are squads that have achieved a high average rating and obtained a lot of votes. Some of these may be outdated now, but they were good enough at their time to be the top squads. Some of them are still just as strong now as they were when they were created

It doesnt say anything about it being the best squad of all time. It says the most highly rated squad of all time. This is for squads that achieved a high average rating. So peoples opinions are always gonna varey, but thats the def. for the top 10 squads of all time. So take that into account when you vote.

What it ultimately comes down to is a level of concern. I bet at least 51% of this community (probably more) would vote yes to this poll. Which means people will still continue to vote on it.

As Po1 just said, it isn't that pressing in the long run, if your squad is bumped out of the ratings altogether by a higher rated squad you would probably object and post and try to get any 1s removed when there are just as many if not more in the other top 10.

You are pouring energy and time into something 99% of users on this don't pay attention to, and I bet you are a substantial minority in your opinion on it.

Ultimately a squad rating on some obscure site with an obscure game played by random people shouldn't bother one's psyche.

I think moderators can see who rates and how much. If not, they should!