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The Unfairness of Experience

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Catoptrophobic's Avatar Catoptrophobic
Level 15 : Journeyman Artist
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Now, I assume that if you are reading this, you know about leveling up, and rankings here, on Planet Minecraft. However, I doubt it has been brought to much attention how easily someone could rank up many levels higher than someone else, only by spamming submissions that probably took around 5 minutes. I'm not intending to offend anyone with this post, but seriously, it feels pretty bad to see someone rocket up in levels, only because they quickly put together a very low quality skin, texture pack, or other creation. I do respect the admins on this site, and I know that they do a great job of maintaining this site, but the experience system is quite flawed. There's a friend of mine (who I will not name) that has an account on this site. He has made 10 submissions, 6 of which are skins, and is level 6. His skins have at the most, 50 some views, 15 some downloads. From those 6 skins and 4 other quickly put together submissions, which are not very popular, he has gathered enough XP for level 6. I only have 3 skins, but they have many more views and downloads than his, along with higher upvotes. I do respect him as a person (I know him IRL), but I do not like his way of submitting creations. I know this sounds like I'm very greedy for XP, and I apologize for it.
Should Planet Minecraft have experience based more onto popularity and ratings, rather than number of submissions? Please discuss.
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02/09/2012 9:33 am
Level 1 : New Crafter
sadisticalsatan001
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Levels, exp, diamonds, there all gimmick's meant to encourage users to submit more work.

The fundamentals of all user submission based sites.
Which will also bring them down in the end.
Just like what happened to Kazaa.
Forgotten by newer U-sub-sites.
Extinct like Mega-upload.
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12/12/2011 9:54 pm
Level 28 : Expert Architect
fergusmo88
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Wait...what are the levels? Etc. on which level do you become a journeyman, master, expert, grandmaster, and legendary, builder/crafter/whatever?
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12/13/2011 12:06 am
Level 15 : Journeyman Artist
Catoptrophobic
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Herp derp I don't know, haha. Try Googling it, you're sure to find one somewhere.
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11/09/2011 9:00 pm
Level 25 : Expert Narwhal
nubpwn
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I agree, sometimes, I feel tired and do this, but you still yell at me... Anyways... The modders too, most of them can't make any good mod that still makes the game balanced and makes it fun (my mod is bad and my WIP mod is bad too but those easy diamond mods get on my nerves sometimes, or if they named it something different in title to mislead us).
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11/04/2011 2:42 pm
Level 7 : Apprentice Explorer
AmazingAlibi
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I Completely Agree With You. I Only Post Blogs Right Now Because I Havent Been Able To Play Minecraft And Because I Cant Upload Mods And I Have No Clue How To Make Skins Or Texture Packs.
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10/20/2011 12:46 am
Level 38 : Artisan Toast
Oooooh_Shiny
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use your art skills and make a nice shaded texture pack after all ur skins are quite nicely shaded and they look really cool especially the redstone mechanic! keep up the good work im subbin too :)
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10/20/2011 1:02 am
Level 15 : Journeyman Artist
Catoptrophobic
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Thanks! :D I'm working on one.
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10/20/2011 1:10 am
Level 38 : Artisan Toast
Oooooh_Shiny
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nice! i cant wait! :)
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10/20/2011 12:44 am
Level 37 : Artisan Geek
Gtfo_Mailman
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Skins dont get you that much exp. Try making a texture pack or maybe a lil project?
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10/20/2011 1:02 am
Level 15 : Journeyman Artist
Catoptrophobic
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Yeah, I know. I've been working on a texture pack for awhile, but I'm a perfectionist and won't submit it until its nearly done or gathered enough feedback. :|
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