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Over the last three or four years it's become increasingly popular to give lower ratings. Before then 8s, 9s and even 10s weren't all that unusual. I want to start a discussion on this and get everyone's opinions and reasons for rating the way they do. I rate higher than most people let me break down some of it...

5 - very little attempts to write punchlines. Often vague and not really hitting the mark.
6 - Clear punchlines although weak. Some use of multies.
7 - Decent jabs & decent multies.
8 - Good punches, good use of multies.
9 - Excellent, creative punches & great multies.
10 - Incredible punches, and incredible multies.

I'm banding in wordplay, metaphors, personals & so on under the label Punches and flow, delivery etc. under the term Multies just to make this easy. Recently I've seen verses from Manhattan, Row, Malishus etc. (the top echelon of the site) and people are dropping 6's and 7's? If you're dropping 6's or 7's on their verses, what are you giving everyone else? If you want to rate low, then that's one thing but you have to have consistency. It seems a lot of you are just unwilling to give anything higher than a 7.

Over the last three or four years it's become increasingly popular to give lower ratings. Before then 8s, 9s and even 10s weren't all that unusual. I want to start a discussion on this and get everyone's opinions and reasons for rating the way they do. I rate higher than most people let me break down some of it...

5 - very little attempts to write punchlines. Often vague and not really hitting the mark.
6 - Clear punchlines although weak. Some use of multies.
7 - Decent jabs & decent multies.
8 - Good punches, good use of multies.
9 - Excellent, creative punches & great multies.
10 - Incredible punches, and incredible multies.

I'm banding in wordplay, metaphors, personals & so on under the label Punches and flow, delivery etc. under the term Multies just to make this easy. Recently I've seen verses from Manhattan, Row, Malishus etc. (the top echelon of the site) and people are dropping 6's and 7's? If you're dropping 6's or 7's on their verses, what are you giving everyone else? If you want to rate low, then that's one thing but you have to have consistency. It seems a lot of you are just unwilling to give anything higher than a 7.