User:Pirakafreak24/Persuasive Essay/Rating

So, have you ever done alot on Bioniclepedia and not gotten your rating any higher? Do you think rating should be banned? if you do, please continue reading. If you don't, continue reading, because I am about to explain to you why rating should be banned.

On October 15th, User:DragonKhorse said, "Come to think of it, why make it so difficult to raise your ratings? For example, User A has not made any useful rating, he just goes around fixing spelling errors and grammar while User B has made 49 useful edits (Major overhauls, fixing up Problem pages, increasing and updating accurate info...). Both will have a rating of 0..." So, I ask you, why have the rating system?

If we look on The Rating System Page, you'll see that it was made for admin to tell who is good and who is bad. That's an Ok reason right? But, over time, people have grown to hate the rating stystem. What started out as a great idea, turned into rebellion and sabotouge.

I say rebellion because many people have tried to stop the rating stystem. I myself sent multiple emails to User:MarioGalaxy2433g5, teling him the rating system stinks. Other people have said that they don't like the rating system on administrator's talkpages. One example may be found on User:ToaAuserv's talkpage, where User:Boss Giovanni said, "I don't like ratings because, first, they're a bit unfair. You may find this false (because the admins are the people I'm targeting here), but it seems that the admins increase in point value much faster than normal editors. However, this is probably because you have an obligation to edit, unlike others, who can come and go and choose not to edit if they wish. Second, it is very hard to increase a person's rating. An excellent user still might have a rating of 0 when they should have a rating of about 12. Third, 20 is too high for the speed at which ratings increase. 10 is a more reasonable number. Four, a new registered user should immediately be bumped up to 1, just for logging in. A rating of 0, believe it or not, might repel some people. Though my vote is still to get rid of the Point System, with revision it could be kept." I totoly agree with him, with revision it could be kept.

But I saw a leter message also delivered by Boss Giovani, and I investigated. It turns out that Boss Giovani had voted against the rating system, in which Auserv replied, "Your vote was removed because you're still a very new member; however since according to your contribs you have been here for 5 days, that's more than the minimum time specified in the poll, so I guess your vote can stay. In any case, what do you have against the Rating System anyway? It helps us keep track of who to watch out for and who to trust--and it's a heck of a lot quicker than checking their contribs." That's what make Giovani say what he said up above in my essay, but I looked also to see what Auserv said about that comment.

"Such revisions have been proposed," he said, "also if the rating system ends up surviving, I plan to restart the entire thing, with everyone going back to 0 (or 1, or whatever), and I'd be running it a bit differently than it has been in the past (if my fellow admins agree). The reason that we admins have a much higher point rating is because a long time ago, when the rating system was first established, the admin in charge of updating it hardly ever did--by now we probably would have that many. But since it's all estimating now, it would be best to start over, as I will be suggesting to the other admins after the end of the vote (all assuming that we do keep the rating system). Does that have any influence on your vote?"

"HOOOOLLLLDDD on!" Giovani replied, "You're saying you made your own rankings from 0 to 15 just because the guy in charge wasn't keeping up? What you should've done (this is more even for non-admins) is appointed a more efficient guy to up the ratings and then continued to edit just as well as before. Hard work pays off! (my vote remains on no)" OK, this guy has some great Ideas.

So, Auserv replied, "If you haven't noticed, that's what's about to happen. Assuming the rating system stays, I'll be appointed to the job, and I'm starting everyone over at 0. Which means normal users may wind up with more points than admins, if they edit more (and better). For the record, I didn't choose the point inflation for the admins; that was Panakalego's idea. I just went along with it, lol." So, we've learned that it was PanakaLego's Idea to start a rating system. But, he put Auserv in charge. Why is that?

I looked into the history of the rating system and I found nothing to share. So, lets recap. We know that PanakaLego started the rating system, but we don't know why. We also looked into people's pasts and found that people have been rebelios.

Now, you're probobly wondering why I say sabotouge. I say this because looking into MANY peoples talkpages, I see they've recieved warnings for changeing their rating and getting rid of thier rating template. User:DragonKhorse has even pointed out to me that anyone can change their rating when they want. He even created the template and wrote "Five million billion trillion."

Now, you've seen other people's perspectives, but you haven't seen mine. I've contributed alot to Bioniclepedia over the days, but my rating hasn't budged! I myself have even pointed out that rating on a userpage is like rating someone. If we look at my blog, I even wrote that the rating system should be stopped because its like rating someone. Its like saying that I like you better than him!

Now that you've seen it my way and many others way, I hope I have convinced you. Thanks for reading.