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[atalkingfish]

That does sound good.

BTW, I do warn against rating charts based off of the video. There's a few songs I've found are more fun than the video suggests (or less fun in some cases).

That's why community reviews from people who have played the song will have a significant effect on the website's rating. I can't download all of them.

[Cipher_Peon]

Sorry if I'm asking a stupid or old or irrelevant question, but I was wondering...
Why isn't That Authoring Group in your list of authors? Aren't they authors too... ;_;

[MegaIronDragonDeth]

The Rotting Christ track looks awesome. I especially love the part at 3:30 on guitar.

[FlyGuyLXI]

Please, remove the rating system, because I could not disagree more with them.

[kingtonyx]

Please, remove the rating system, because I could not disagree more with them.

It's his site, why should he remove it because YOU don't like them? Hell if you had your way 95% of the tracks would have a 1.

[FlyGuyLXI]

It's his site, why should he remove it because YOU don't like them? Hell if you had your way 95% of the tracks would have a 1.

The reason I took offense is because the way it's being represented, it's almost like he's shoving their opinions down our throats.

And even if he's going to rate, at least be descriptive to why the rating.

[bjyaritz]

Any words on new Free Spirit tracks? I know they are in the pipeline, just thought we might see a new one this week.

[SeymourDuncan17]

... it's almost like he's shoving their opinions down our throats.

He gives a number/10. And done.

I'm not seeing the problem.

[atalkingfish]

A few things about the rating system:

- I never rate below a 5 or above an 8. Any ratings past those will have to be done by community response (for example, if I make something an 8 because it's got good charts, good playability, and nothing that would make it a bad RB track, and you guys all go "THIS SONG IS FRIGGIN AMAZING", I'll probably bump it to a 9 or 10. If I make something a 5 or 6 because there are things wrong with it, and you guys go "Wow, this has a terrible chart", I'll probably bump it to a 3 or a 4.
- The ratings are not based on how good the song is, but rather on things like notability, playability, and interest. For example, Nugget Man would get rated highly because it's humorous. We don't get a lot of those. Whereas a lot of the Free Spirit songs (while they are all fantastic plays imo) might not get rated so high because there are a lot of them.

I'm hoping this clears the air on some of that. The ratings are for people to take notice of songs that stand out from the rest.

[atalkingfish]

Sorry if I'm asking a stupid or old or irrelevant question, but I was wondering...
Why isn't That Authoring Group in your list of authors? Aren't they authors too... ;_;

I'd love to answer this.

We have the list of authors based on the authors that are involved with the site. The first step for the authors is to give me that information, the next step is to register on the forums, and the step after that is to post announcements on the news page. Some authors have gone through all steps (Chart Toppers, Gigakoops, etc) while others haven't gone through the first one (RockGamer, That Authoring Group).

Last I heard from That Authoring Group, they plan on getting started, but haven't yet. If you want to see them on there, I'd suggest emailing them about it.