[Karma]

On IMDB, the movies are rated by the users. And all users have an equal vote in the rating of any movie.

My suggestion for BBO is a user based rating system. Users rating other users.

It could be a number scale, like 1-10. or level, Beginner/Novice/Int/Adv/Exp.
For the level rating, the level would translate to a number, 1-5 and the average rating would show as the level.

Users can rate other users only once, but would also have the ability to update their rating. Easy to do, just make a new rating and throw out the old one.

A rating would need a minimum number of votes, say 10, to be valid. Until then, a player is unrated. To avoid data overload and to let a rating evolve, the system could throw away old ratings. Perhaps keeping the most recent 100 ratings.

Personally, I prefer a number scale. I suspect a lot of players will get rated at 5-7. Then 8 would be an exceptionally good player and 9 would be real a expert.

And for the seriously bad players that don't want anyone else to know about it, there is the hidden rating. Any player can choose to hide their rating. To further protect their level, they would appear as 'unrated'.

[DrTodd13]

Maybe we need a sticky post in each forum saying what topics have been discussed. That way, people can stop thinking their ideas are original.

This suggestion has been made numerous times in the past. I've even posted the code to do it! BBO management has no interest in introducing any ratings system.

[matmat]

so i can go create 100 login accounts in the flash version, rate myself highly with all of them and beat the system that way?
thanks, but no thanks.

[drinbrasil]

BBO still dont want any rating system? already though about let players decide if they want be rated?