For anyone who is on the CCLP4 staff

[jblewis]

Perhaps the staff needs to think about some other ways to limit the number of levels seriously considered for the set. Just throwing ideas around here:


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-Limiting the method of how levels are allowed into the submission pool. One way to do this would be to require nominations of individual levels, rather than full sets. There could even be a limit for the number of nominations per person (though this might have some stalling effects due to wanting to see other people's nominations first).

Currently, it sounds like I could make a set with 500 levels of varying quality, ask for it to be included for consideration, leave the community, and come back years later to see how the set turned out and which of my levels made it into the set. This doesn't sound efficient or even fair to the people who would put a lot of work into compiling the set.Happy Holidays

You're absolutely right, Miika. I think your last suggestion is probably the best. It would help pare down the voting pool into something that's reasonable for <i>both </i>the voters and the staff. The staff could set some kind of rule on this, such as two nominations from people who aren't the designer of the level. Plus, this saves the staff a lot of testing work. Rather than comb through every single level in every single submitted set for busts and compatibility issues, the pre-voting testing can be limited to the levels that would actually appear in voting. It would also help quite a bit with respect to levels that do have these issues, as they'd be included on the condition that they'd be fixed by virtue of community nominations, not staff decisions that encompass other eliminated levels. (The blacklist / whitelist / marked-for-blacklisting list system in CCLP1 was a bit confusing for many, I think.) Of course, the one drawback is that there are some sets with quality material that may not be nearly as popular and would not receive near the amount of nominations, though this could easily be remedied by the staff keeping tabs on what's hot and what's not and nudging the community to check out what's neglected.