Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4189499-20130902062418

I see many different ideas about how to judge a level's difficulty here on this wiki, and one straightforward method needs to be chosen to stop all these arguments from happening. Here are the options I have seen so far. Please discuss below here on this thread so we can come to a consensus on what to use.


 * 1) Don't use difficulty levels: The benefit of this idea is that it removes all need for subjective assessments of levels. If you want to follow the Wikipedia wiki standard which many encyclopaedic wikis similar to this one follow, you will need to remove all content which isn't completely objective.  Now, this might be hard on a wiki with strategy recommendations, however you will find life so much easier, both from an editorial and administrative perspective to just get rid of these subjective statements of difficulty all together and stick with objective information where you can.


 * 2) The difficulty formula: Basing the difficulty level off of a mathematical formula, such as that proposed by Wildoneshelper, will mean you can have a statement of difficulty with minimal subjectivity in it. Now, obviously it's near impossible to completely remove all subjectivity with something like this, but by basing the difficulty on physical characteristics of the level rather than individuals' ability brings more objectivity into the rating than there otherwise would be.


 * 3) Poll: If you want to show views of all people when it comes to difficulty, the easiest way to do that is through the use of a poll. Let people rate the level themselves and the poll will show the trend in people's attitudes towards a level.  This has the benefit of pleasing everyone when it comes to expressing their opinions on a level, but a poll does take up a lot of space and doesn't give one definite answer.


 * 4) Discussion: This has the benefit of allowing everyone to express their opinions on a level and then come to a compromise. The problem with that is individual's stubbornness and people's general lack of ability to compromise. However, if you all decide to work together, this could work out.


 * 5) Whatever the person who last edited the page thinks: Basically what you have now: anyone can change the level at any time without much reasoning given. The worst of the options, I would say, but it does require the least policing (in fact, the idea is that there is no policing).

Now, discuss and come to a consensus. 