Should "Basic" and "Beginner" be changed back to "Bad" and "Very Bad"?

[OnboardG1 1,279]

I'd argue this, but too many egos here don't get how the whole "human nature" thing works. Suffice to say I think Rexxie has the right idea.

[Echo_Saber 5]

Whether or not a player is new, bad performance is bad performance, and there is no need to sugarcoat it.

[OOPMan 1,266]

Baddies don't use XVM. 

I voted to retain the Beginner and Basic ratings. While Bad and Very Bad may well be more accurate the fact of the matter is you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

I agree that I prefer Rexxie's suggestion to Beginner/Basic and Very Bad/Bad.

[predavolk 283]

The change has already been made, but one option is to call it "poor" and "very poor" instead of bad. In my opinion, poor is less aggressive.

I agree.

I'd argue this, but too many egos here don't get how the whole "human nature" thing works. Suffice to say I think Rexxie has the right idea.

You're right, a lot of people don't get human nature or understand basic psychology.  Insulting bads won't do anything other than make you look like a jerk because if they cared about their stats, 95% of them wouldn't be bad. 

So I thought about this.  Shouldn't we just cut to the chase and get down to what we're really arguing/measuring here?  Fuck unicum.  It's a terrible name any how.  Let's just have:

 

[Rexxie 10,788]

Let's just have:

 

WN8 would suddenly mean more for me than it ever has <3

[Tuco22 12,603]

And pretty accurate too.

[Zepherex 3,641]

Barely competent enough to breathe should replace very bad.

[RichardNixon 835]

Being a new player (started march 15), the terms already given are adequate. When i first looked myself up i had 1k rating and 46% wr, at about 1k battles.

There's a bigger problem there. Your mediocre WN8 and very low winrate just meant that you were a tier rusher.

It's a general problem with putting a skill scale on winrate, when a relatively small fraction of winrate is dependent on skill. You could have a scale for winrate that went something like Tier rusher -> ... -> T2 sealclubber and it wouldn't be much less true.

[Never 7,711]

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