kalia

First off: I've been a critic of the moderation here in the past. I won't respond to the now-banned WarThug 'cause, clearly, just bait, but I'll say this: I don't have a problem with it now. Maybe it was my mood prior or maybe there were kinks in the stricter system to work out, but it seems to be running pretty smoothly to me now and I quite frankly scratched my head when I started reading that first post (before I figured out it was just bait). And more & more mod authors are using mirrors when they upload as well (multiple good reasons for that, including site down time & all sorts of really bad possibilities we don't want to think about, like for instance aliens stealing the servers with some secret mod-sensing beaming technology). I've *no* problem with how Nexus is being run. However: I will always have a problem with a numerical rating system on a large site like this. For an individual reviewer, it's fine. I can go back thru that reviewer's history, see how she's rated different things, find how the tastes mesh. And, like caitivoltaire speaks of doing, there's usually an in-depth statement of *why*. But you reasonable mod-raters who like a clear explanation & are willing to put in the time & energy to do so are unfortunately the minority. There's been calls for nice explanations of *why* the mod's so good as to get a 10 for years now, and it still isn't happening. And it seems a lot of the low ratings *are* because the mod does exactly what it says it will do, and the rater simply doesn't want that type of mod to exist. (And I've seen someone state flat out at another site that he would see [rateable item] that he thought should be an 8, see that its average rating was 10, and so rate it a 3. He apparently didn't understand what the 'average' was supposed to mean, and that regardless of what he thought the reasoning behind the 10s was he didn't get to just arbitrarily rule them out & drag the rating down to *his* ideal.) So hurrah for *whatever* changes Dark0ne's making - he certainly cleaned up the ImageShare section nicely, so I'm sure the FileShare's gonna do just fine as well.