Stars are also tied to the ranking system so you would be asking to get rid of ranking system too. Rep would only matter in the forums and to be quite frank, I think they're practically useless. The star system is way more important imo. We would be better off finding more uses for the credit system and using that for black market transactions.

Speaking of credits, they need more uses.

The star system is a joke. Because oldheads inflated the ratings a shit ton, its the most inaccurate representation of skill on the site. Oldheads i have 100-0'd have more stars than me because they primarily battled in a shit inflated rating era

I've been here since 2012 and literally just now learned what those stars meant.

Imo it was harder to get stars back then

Now we're talking like 50 consistently active people maybe 8 on at any given time. 6 of those 50 people are good/great battlers. and i'm not including audio. just text.

Back then it was like 500 active heads with 30ish on at any given time. 40-50 were top tier niggas

It's just the voting has gone to shit. Everybody is so full of themselves they refuse to rate a verse that'd be considered a really good verse by today's standards with a good rating

I see great battles where you dick head niggas are giving out 7's to the winner like clockwork. It'd kill you niggas to give someone a 9 let alone a 10. So I blame nobody but the voters themselves for shit tier niggas having more stars than nice niggas. Imo it wasn't over inflation it's the under voting these days

^Release a godbody voting stencil lol. Because you're right, voting is anus here.

Anus. Lol.

As one of the lowest voters on the site, I think it behooves me to respond to this.

I hand out low ratings because I grade on absolute scale, where 10.0 is perfect and the rest of the system is a curve leading up to that. So a decent verse might get a 6 or 7, but it takes something much better to get an 8 or 9. This doesn't mean I don't award them, just that I am very stringent about whom I give them to for the sake of objective comparison and self-consistency.

If you start at low 8 for a barely-decent verse and just work up from there, you have to subdivide each rating into a bunch of different subratings to do anything of note, while the lower end of the scale is bloated and difficult to work with. A rating of 9 or 10 then becomes something meaningless and easily earned, rather than a very rare token of respect.

What I do makes far more sense, but for whatever reason is not very intuitive to most people.

its not that deep fam

So you wanna be a strict voter, giving pretty good verses 7's?

meanwhile the noobs and dickriders are handing out 8's and 9's for shittier verses

Basically ya'll scrutinize the fuck outta a mid-top tier battlers verse and throw 7's on it..on the flip side joe schmo with a semi-decent verse & his band of dickriders is getting 8's and 9's

where's the balance? the shitty battles make their way on the hotlist and more deserving battles are struggling to make it without gettin those 8's and 9's because you guys, whether its subconsciously or w/e, are way harsher on verses of ppl ya'll perceive to be mid-top tier

TLDR

I'd rather give a pretty good Rican verse an 8 or 9 than to see 5 shitty MaCc battles hotlist off the strength of his buddies and dickriders alone

Rican deserves an 8/9 though.

I say do away with the star system, it's a nice sentiment but nowhere near accurate because of varied periods in voting. Sometimes people are strict (accurate) and other times people hype the fuck out of others so their skill level is stagnant based on the idea that they don't have room for improvement. Plus those skill charts on profiles are based out of seemingly nowhere.