Yo! I have some questions regarding the very thing we do on this site

1. (Prolly for the elders) Before omdb existed, was osu built-in rating system sufficient to express your anonymized opinion, or did you seek out other methods to share your thoughts more publicly? Was sharing other people's ratings (on idk, google sheets) ever a thing back in the day?

2. On a scale to 10, how accurate does the rating system detect horrible maps through the overall low score? I intentionally do not ask for the opposite end of the spectrum as it is kind of a joke (90% of maps have full 10's so what's the point lol)

3. (Prolly for the yappers on forums) were there any proposals to improve the osu rating system to make it more functional? Is there any possibility that osu will adopt omdb's rating system and thus killing omdb? (pls don't, the site's niche-ness is what makes it so fun!!)

aight yap over :)

Based on my personal experience as a player I don't rly think anyone I knew ever used this feature, I think only a big minority uses it (Kind of proven by the lack of it in lazer, or at least I can't find where to vote; it was pretty direct in stable though so it seems like it's getting phased out maybe?) - never heard of anyone sharing ratings per se, ppl just said "I like this map" or "I don't like this map" and the ratings were never rly a point of conversation

From what I can see ppl just put good ratings (Mostly 10 stars) for maps they enjoy and low ratings (Mostly 1 stars) for maps they dislike, I put 10s on some maps I liked, very very very few people seem to actually rate the maps so most are like 9.5 avg rating because it's like 20 10's and 1 1 - the most controversial / low rating you're going to get is probably like hailie's shiten or something /s/852901 because it was universally hated by the player base so I guess it's a reflection of that only

As a sidenote this also proves that players don't rly fuckin care they like Almost everything - the map itself barely matters unless it's actively fucking the player over all of the time then ppl hate it obviously

eh its just always gonna average out from the extremes of 1 star rating to 10 star rating in most cases its not like omdb where people usually carefully pick out their actual rating of the map

i use it to give maps that i choke on 1 star

1: I remember being part of a map-rating spreadsheet that Kingling did in 2021. I do feel the ingame rating system is inadequate because it could only be used right after a play, and you couldn't change your ratings after. So spreadsheet form was kinda nice before omdb.

2: I'd say user rating doesn't really pinpoint "bad maps", but moreso maps that were controversial or maps that follow a niche playstyle. A lot of the maps I adore are maps I found precisely by looking at the lowest user rating maps.

they should make in game rating only show after u watch the map in the editor

@a bat that's an interisting to find new maps lmao. used to do something similar but I sort the maps by lowest play count of each year instead. Initial purpose was to farm top 50 but my god is it miserable to hold combo on most of these maps /s/1441287 , no wonder only a few touch them maps. Still, I did stick around to find fun obscure stuff. And now I just go full gamble by opening random beatmap packs lol
edit: fuck bb code, I had to rewrite this twice now

Can't speak for 1

2. It is woefully ineffective for that purpose, excluding the 2007 maps rated low but then again you can still have fun with primitive/crude maps so I'd rate it a 0
3. I honestly think that this site is just too esoteric in terms of the broader osu community for any OMDB-killing features to be added. The userbase of like 1000 semi active users is nothing compared to the possible desires of the 100000 5 digit players in standard alone