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So, around s1/beta end there was a ton of negativity against Smite on Smitefire. it was horrible, the most renown people around here at the time (Editors, veterans etc) actually treated Smite so badly, legit told people to turn away from this game when they were looking for advice because it was "bad" (which it wasn't), called people blind hirez fanboys when they tried to say good stuff about the game, and nobody interrupted. and it just stayed like this for a while, 1 of them got banned and the others left, but everyone who visited SF during that time period witnessed it.
*terrible.
Overall reddit dislikes smitefire because it is not too "User Friendly" when it comes to finding the best builds because there is no ranking system for anything other than "Did you like this guide or not Please upvote or downvote" so guide stats are manipulated, bad guides bury good guides and it's a mess.
Edit* Another possibility would be to have a site guide reviewer team to analyze guides that are being published before they hit the site. This could be an easy way to get early categorization using the aforementioned system above. Obvious troll guides could be blocked from publishing (Such as the Skadi with all Deathbringer build or something along those lines I saw a ways back) and guides that are deemed more off meta or silly can be placed in either a "Fun Builds" category or placed in a temporary category for further community review after which it will be moved to its "Proper" spot.
Yes and no. They don't "hate" (more of a "dislike") SMITEfire just like that.
Not exactly. Remember Bran's "Overarching Conquest" guide making a name for itself on Reddit back in 2016?
False, they do care about other people's ideas. Reddit is a discussion forum, the whole point of the thing is spreading ideas/thoughts/etc...
SF's reputation on Reddit has mainly been "bad", not due to the lack of guides, but because of the "bad" guides. And with "bad" guides I mean the kind that's a (random) build (can possibly make sense or not, but that's currently besides the point), and one sentence saying stuff like "This build works for me, works for you, ez victory gg 420 noscope Rama proleague for dayz", something along those lines.
The issue is that those type of guides were (and still are, but to a lesser extent) the most common. That's due to the fact that it's not hard to create a single build and type one line, everybody who has the mental capability to open an internet browser and browse something can do it.
The fact that they were so overly common, made it so those "bad" guides buried the better ones beneath it, and ultimately "tainted" the site's rep. Or at least, that's what I've gathered from long-standing members over the course of time I've spent on this website, which now that I think of it, is almost an entire year already...
Note: I don't use "bad" as a negative / offensive term here. See it as a "lack of better wording". It is not, was not and never will be my intention to insult and/or harm somebody and/or their work. Thanks.
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This makes it really difficult for newer players to find good information that they know is reliable.
So, what if there guides were split into categories of 'casual guides' and 'competitive guides' (much like how guides were categorised and split up into seasons, in the last big update when I was a regular here), BUT with the catch that guides, by default, are categorised as casual, and the high ranking users on the site (like, say Bran's rank and above) can bestow 'competitive' status upon guides which deserve it.
This would allow people visiting the site to easily find the serious guides all grouped together, if that's what they're looking for, or have a look through all the casual guides grouped together if they just want to have a bit of casual fun.
Now this may seem quite ruthless towards the people that put little effort into making **** guides, as it's likely any guide in the casual category will likely be ignored by any visitors, but I feel it would incentiveise authors to put more effort into making good guides, and discourage people from posting **** lazy ones, and will allow the good author's guides to shine much more brightly to visitors.
Like I said though, this would be MAJOR work to implement and would put pressure on the high rank members to read and rate every guide (but I think bran does that anyway so let's be honest he could probably one-man-army my idea by himself).
So, yeah, that's an idea I had one time about how to improve things.