Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-3225604-20150623071442/@comment-26235098-20150623225241

If a difficulty were added, I think this should be the one. I think you've hit the nail on the head with the terminology as well.

I oppose the bit about "if even one user opposes insanely hard" then it cannot be used. That makes no sense to me. Somebody is going to luck out, and nail the level fast. Just because you or I take 20, 30, or 75 tries, doesn't mean our 75th result of the die-toss can't happen on someone else's first "die-toss". That's just pure probability and stats.

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I actually oppose the current method for grading levels. Getting consensus is fine and good, but we ask for it in a way that almost forces subjectivity into the result, and an amazing amount of it, too.

We ask users to support/oppose a word they know nothing about. People do not generally have the difficulty grading scheme memorized; some have never even seen it. Many will lend their own subjective interpretations to the labels we are using as difficulty grades, and then give opinions on which fits a level best. We continue to use this feedback system, amazingly, despite the presence of copious "discussions" with users as to what a rating means/implies or does not, and that's not even touching those users we don't know about, the plain support/opposers mentioned above. These might have used boosters. Or not. They might have tried a level once... or 20 times. Or they might just like the ring of a specific word... like insanely... it almost rhymes with 'zany' hey... support!

I like the idea of using a poll to ask people questions they can answer objectively, without knowing anything about our rating system, necessarily. For instance:

Did you play this level using boosters?

How many times did you play this level, in total?

How many times did you win this level, in total?

Then, when we have collected what we estabish is a "statistically significant" data sample, we pool all the results from the poll and calculate the difficulty rating from it. A person wouldn't even need to have passed a level to participate. The most ridiculous thing I saw, was a poll (on some dreamworld level I think, maybe 210 not sure) that said I had to pass it to vote the level insanely hard. Well I had played it hundreds of times without passing. Whyever should that not count??