Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-3225604-20150129143201/@comment-3225604-20150130144807

Well first, the meaning of "insanely hard" should be redefined. The difficulty is the highest, so it should refer to levels which are almost impossible to beat.

Neglect the second part, which I think we need more time to discuss how to achieve a consensus in deciding the difficulty of levels, which I think this is the part where it receives the most oppose votes. I will bring this issue later, at least after having a consensus in adding very hard+ difficulty and renaming some difficulty names.

I agree with Imamadmad that the name "very hard+" can sound a bit biased. I'm proposing an amendment to the following:


 * 1) Very-insanely hard difficulty
 * 2) Difficulty name change proposal

Very-insanely hard difficulty
To avoid confusion with that "very hard+" levels are just very hard. "Very-insanely hard" levels will sound more appropriate. First, it will sound more neutral whether the level is regarded as very hard or insanely hard since it sounds like the between of two levels. "Extremely hard" in my opinion will cause confusion and bias towards "insanely hard" and also will generate an impression that this difficulty can be voted. The sole purpose of setting up very-insanely hard difficulty is to minimize the number of insanely hard levels, so as to bring the true meaning and significance of insanely hard levels that they are almost impossible to beat. In my opinion, "extremely hard" just sounds almost the same severity as "insanely hard", or even harder than "insanely hard".

How the difficulty can be achieved will not be changed since I think it's very reasonable to have these criteria.

Difficulty name change
@Blueeighthnote, the issue can be solved with the help of CzechBot by changing all the names of "considerably hard/easy" to "somewhat hard/easy". I may agree that "slightly" is a bit too close to medium (in Oxford it means to a small extent). "Somewhat" may seem to sound a bit better, but a bit close to "hard" (in Oxford it means to a moderate extent, in this case Thesaurus.com shows a synonym entry of "considerably", which I think will cause confusion too).

Mind you, the opposite of "slightly" is actually "considerably" and "greatly" according to thesaurus.com, so the difficulty name: "Considerably hard/easy" is a total misuse to some extent.

P.S.: Checked Oxford Dictionary, "slightly", "somewhat" and "a little" are some of the considerable choices for the new name, while I will tend to stick to "slightly" since it will not cause meaning confusion and it is relatively formal.