The Ultimate Solution to the rating system

[Eanikran]

You also get 10 year olds (and younger) on the receiving end of the negativity, though. They could have poured their hearts and souls into the game, only to have a bunch of wannabe critics pound their dreams into the dust.

Hence why I'm all for the Yay or Nothing idea.

Yeah I see where you're coming from on that. Still though, it's usually pretty easy to tell the difference between the trolls doing it on purpose and the inexperienced, at least for me it is anyway. Even still, if somebody bashes your level, you can take their comment down if you want. I didn't really see a purpose behind making it possible to take comments and reviews off since you can just delete them if you see the need. the rating systems however; either leave boos and yays the way they were, or completely replace them with another system (like the slider bar/1-10/stars idea). It's like this; there's a bridge on a trail with lots of traffic, and the bridge has a 20 foot span of creaky boards, which scares people when they walk across it. So the owner of the bridge just removes the boards and says 'there, people won't hear the creaking and be scared of falling now', and that just makes a big hole to fall through, instead of replacing it with new or better boards. A big 20 foot hole in a bridge makes it pretty much useless, right?

[spoiler]On an unrelated note, the bridge is also covered in copied beehives, which the owner does nothing about when he takes the boards out.[/spoiler]

[Xtrahuman]

I think that the level rating could be based on how the level made the player feel. (Amused, Laugh, Sad, Scared, Angry, Neutral)

Aren't those called tags? (jk) anyways, good idea.