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DATE	TOOL	VERSION	INFORMATION
27 July 2022	ScriptHookV	1.0.2699.0	Game version compatibility update.

@mectomeceba post on Mod Approval Thread please.

@JohnFromGWN yeah well any kind of random bug is possible on 5Mods

@JohnFromGWN Sometimes and randomly can happen during valid sessions too. Not hijacked.

@JohnFromGWN

There are likes and there are ratings. Should we consider them to be the same?

A rating can include (indirectly) a like from the user that post it and we don't even know it unless the user says "like" or "I like it" or something like that in the comment that contains the rating. Nevertheless, a like can't include a rating because you can't provide an accurate evaluation with it. So no, are not the same but here's my point when I used the "like" word in my previous comment:

If an user rates a mod 4.5/5 it can be because:

• Likes/dislikes it but still considers the mod deserves such rating because is well made in some way or another.
• Likes/dislikes it but also didn't find any bugs/issues/problems on the mod as to provide a lower rating.
• Likes/dislikes it and found one or more bugs/issues/problems but are not relevant enough for the user as to provide a lower rating.

All of them are valid as far as the comment does not contain any text (rude/disrespectful words/text towards other users, useless discussion that's becoming an unnecessary drama, etc) that could lead us to enforce the comments section rules against it.

If an user rates a mod 4 or less can be because:

• Likes/dislikes it but found improvable features or minor bugs that need fixes.
• Likes/dislikes it but found very improvable features or important bugs that need fixes.
• Likes/dislikes it but found it lacks some basic/necessary features or there are serious bugs that need fixes.
• Likes/dislikes it but the mod is literally broken/outdated and needs to get fixed/updated.
• Just dislikes the mod, the user who posts it (revenges, etc.), the preview images/description/tags used or the user is trying to trigger the mod creator for whatever random reason. -> (the rating is not meant for that usage so gets removed)

All of them (except the last one for obvious reasons) are valid as far as the rating is accompanied with constructive criticism and the comment does not contain any text (rude/disrespectful words/text towards other users, useless discussion that's becoming an unnecessary drama, etc) that could lead us to enforce the comments section rules against it.

I can't say it louder/clearer. If someone does not want to understand how ratings work (as in any other site, like Amazon, Facebook, etc) and why do we act accordingly to the site rules and common sense is not the moderators problem.

@JohnFromGWN

"In the year or so I've been here I may have rated a mod badly 3 or 4 times max. The last time I did, because the anatomy of a pose was physically impossible my rating was quickly removed without a message to that effect."

We only leave a message when it's strictly necessary and depending on the situation, not before. Sometimes is not necessary and is better to don't leave any. Nothing is black or white in life and that life fact applies to this site moderation aswell.

"The added bonus of giving a low rating, with or without constructive criticism as judged subjectively, is that you will be flamed and insulted by the author, his friends, supporters, and similarly minded individuals."

Whoever insults other users/creators gets moderated no matter what. The rules are there to be respected and the moderators to enforce them and that's what we do.

"The biggest irony is that 5 star ratings are never removed, don't need to be justified. Doesn't make any sense. I think we agree that the 5 rating is abused, it means perfection to or close to that."

Saying that are never removed is completely false. You obviously don't see/notice it but sometimes we do remove them for multiple reasons and which the most common ones usually are that an user used a secondary account to rate his own mod 5 stars or the comment which contains the 5 stars rating is also a rude comment towards other users.

It makes totally sense to don't remove 5 stars ratings even if they don't include constructive feedback. If you rate 5 a mod is because either you like everything on it or whatever you dislike of it is not relevant for you as to rate it lower. For 5 ratings providing constructive feedback is optional because none of us can't know if you liked everything or disliked something unless you say it. The difference between this an lower ratings is that for lower ratings supposedly you have a reason/motivation to provide less than 5 stars. If you don't have a reason to rate it lower, why would you rate it lower or why would you even rate it at all then?

It's common sense and logic, nothing else.

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Lastly, I believe I can talk in name of my other teammates (moderators) in general and some site users when I ask you to please stop criticizing the way ratings and comments are being dealt with on the site by us (and yes, I know you didn't start talking about ratings in here yourself first but that doesn't matter as far as you've continued the discussion). At least don't do it in a topic you did create and that has nothing to do with ratings or comments but mod uploads content quality, etc.

If you want to create a new topic about ratings good but stop derailing your topics to that matter unnecessarily.

Actually the tags system does that function (at least for Android and PC). If you hover your mouse over a mod upload preview image (before opening the mod page on PC) or you finger scroll while on phone you'll be able to see the tags it does contain. We always make sure the tags include the kind of content it is (car, truck, gun, melee, skin, texture, etc) and what does require to work (Menyoo, Map Editor, ScriptHookV, SHVDN, etc). You can see them on the following image:

I don't really think we need to put, once again, the same info in the description when it's available either in the mod title or in the mod tags and is easier to find that way.

@Pqre Unbanned your account but please the next time do not upload stuff like this

It may not sound familiar for you (understandable) but there are trolls/bored people which exactly do this kind of uploads and we, obviously, reject such trash uploads and ban them. Since yours looked like one of them and you didn't have any uploads (as all the accounts which do this) then your account went through the same process even if your intention wasn't to troll

To avoid this from happening, the next time it'd be better if you can post something like "testing before uploading any mods" instead as it'd just look slightly more serious

@truffleshuffle I use Edge and works fine for me. Before I used to use Chrome and the search function was there too. Also (kinda off-topic but still) Edge is Chromium based (like Chrome) so I don't really understand why do you hate one and not the other