Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6380028-20180322095520/@comment-2218433-20180614115956

I agree that there needs to be a rule in place to prevent people from manipulating the system to their whim to get free wins without being honest and genuine.

However, I feel that the rules of the Leaderboard are enabling an unhealthy atmosphere in doing so, the basic face value of this rule is you will be immediately punished if you don't vote before the battle is released.

And I don't think that is how it should be managed, as effective and productive as it may be, it is equally able to make things unhealthy and negative because it dishes out the punishment immediately.

A lot of things here are well managed, the less than intentional mistakes are forgiven with warnings, temporary bans, in the dire cases, outright permabanning.

I find this leaderboard to have little of that same managment, this Leaderboard's rules will openly give you an auto-loss if you fail to get it submitted in time, a vote is not a homework assignment, it is a free, no stakes prediction on who would win in a fight. Which is why I have something that might be worth considering, I think a reasonable and fair way to enforce the Leaderboard Rulings would be a simple Three-Strike guideline.

Wherein if a person doesn't submit the battle in time, the first time is allowed, but a soft warning is issued to remind them that voting before battle goes live is something really important. A second strike would be a slightly more firm warning, but their vote still counts, reminding them that there is consequences to not submitting the vote before the deadline, and finally the third time would be when an auto-loss would be applied.

This would also allow staff/mods to be more involved in the comment section, such as saying "Voting for Ryu VS Jin is now Closed!" Which will be effective since all voting is done in the comments and anyone who missed the deadline can be spotted by how soon after the staff/mod comment they were.

I hope my feedback will help you out.