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.

More to the story
Heres a message I sent to another user that You have to read that also explains everything and more:

"Daiku, I understand (sort of) what you were saying about my persuasive essay. You see, the thing is, don't you think it would be better without a rating system? In my resaerch, it was created to help admins see who is good and who is bad, but because of peoples leziness, it hasn't helped. Don't you think it would be easier to get rid of it once and for all? Ratings is just, well, I want to type mean, but that doesn't make sence. Like I said in my essay, its like rating people, only in this perspective, rating peoples behavior. Take out the behavior and its just people. I feel that it should be deleted. If someone is bad, a note should be sent to all administrators telling them that this person is bad and this person is good. That is what I do on Disney Channel wiki. I tell them that this is happening and that if they should fall into it, heres what you should do and heres what you need to know aboiut it. Plus, I was thinking about sending everyone, i mean EVERYONE, a note about my petition, but after I saw how many active users there are on Bioniclepedia, I gave it up. Now, this also affects the rating system. There are so many users on Bioniclepedia that its hard to keep track of. Now, imagine that, but with one more user coming everyday. It keeps gettign harder, and in my resaerch theres one, maybe two people in charge of the rating system. It also seems that there are only admin in charge of it at all. Even if you put all of the administrators in charge, they still have alot of work. Now, I imagine that this rating system was created when the wikia was still small. They probobly didn't expect so many users to come to Bioniclepedia. As you and I can see, if this is what they thought, they're wrong. Even with all of the admins and rollbackers in charge of the rating system, with everyone assigned, say Users starting with A-E, it'd still be a hassle. It is in my experience that people, after a while, become lazy at what they do. I've done it too. You probobly have too. Now, imagine all of the administrators working on this rating system. Now imagine someone becoming lazy. Another admin takes his place and has more work. Then that admin becomes tired and quits working on the rating system. And maybe thats not the only reason. Imagine someone growing out of Bionicle. Imagine an administrator growing out of Bionicle. More and more have to take their job untill there are only a couple of people (lets say three) in charge of this responsibility. At first their jobs were small and they've gotten bigger. Now one person has to handle 20 to 30 maybe 40 users. He/She has to keep track of those users contributions and his/her behavior on Bioniclepedia. Now, I don't know about you, but I'd get pretty sick of it. That user quits the job and its down to two people managing the thing. How does this all start? Because people are lazy. Its a common thing, and it can't be stopped. Now, imagine life without a rating system. No one is forgetting their responsibilitites, and life continues. I'm not saying that this would be paradise, but life would be easier. There would still be rules. To people, it doesn't matter about their rating. They don't care, and because of laziness, other people don't care too. Now, if this rating system were to go away, admins wouldn't have to worry about keeping track of Users so much. That alone would make me feel better. If yuo decide that you want to, please sign my petition. I'm also thinking about putting this into a second part of my essay. Please, think about it."

The New Rating System
Ok, the new rating system is good, except for the fact that I'm still at -10. I've asked for my rating to go up, and it hasn't. I predict that this rating system will go out of hand like the last one. I wouldn't be suprised if they all finally hear me out and get rid of it for good.-- Twilightfan24 (PF24) ( Talk ) I Love Twilight. I cried. It was GR8!!!! http://www.wikia.com/skins/common/progress-wheel.gif 04:39, 3 December 2008 (UTC)