The Rating System

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**The Rating System** is a system set into the game to specifically target Community Levels. It allows Players to give their proper opinion on the level and also allows Creators to get better from constructive criticism on their levels.

## Like Ratings

The first Rating System is called the **Like Rating System**. This system allows any Player or Creator to give their opinion on the level's overall quality. Due to this system, the Creators of these levels would be able to see how well-received a level is. One problem with this system is that people often Dislike levels for the wrong reasons or they Dislike-Bot levels because of their pure hatred towards the level or the level's creator.

## Difficulty Ratings

The **Difficulty Rating System** allows Players to determine how hard a level is based on the average of each Player's vote. This works in different ways when it comes to Unrated levels and Rated levels, which will be explained later on. On Unrated levels, the Difficulty Rating System allows anyone to determine the difficulty of the level by voting on any of the Difficulties. In retrospect to that, Rated levels don't allow anyone but the Moderators and RobTop to determine the difficulty of the level, because it would change the amount of Stars that are rewarded.

## The Star Rating System

**The Star Rating System** allows Community Levels to be awarded a Star Rating, if they meet certain requirements set up by RobTop. If a level meets these *Rating Standards*, Players will be awarded with Stars upon completing them. This in turn gives a Creator Creator Points (CP).

### The Rating Standards

**The Rating Standards** are the requirements that need to be met for a Community Level to get a Star Rating. These requirements are strictly looked at by Moderators and RobTop himself. If some of these requirements are not met, the level cannot get a Star Rating.

The following Standards include:

* Good Decoration.
	+ This involves having background decoration, block decoration and matching colors.
* Good Gameplay.
	+ This is less important to getting a Star Rate nowadays, but it's always important to have good gameplay.

If these two Standards are met, there is a chance that you can get a Star Rate, if you're lucky enough to have a Moderator or RobTop himself review it.

### Star Rating System

The **Star Rating System** has six different variants: Unrated Levels, Rated Levels, Featured Levels, Epic Levels, Legendary Levels and Mythic Levels. Depending on how much the level goes with the Rating Standards impacts the Rating Variant.

However, these standards were a lot less strict in the past. This is why terrible levels with bad gameplay and decoration still got a Star Rating. These levels are things from the past, and it would be unfair to unrate these types of levels when they're part of the history of the Rating System.

### Coin Rating System

The **Coin Rating System** is a system specifically made to judge a level's User Coins. The Coin Rating System is combined with the Star Rating System, meaning that only Rated levels can have their User Coins "verified".

There are a few key points to the Coin Rating System:

* The level needs to be Rated. It doesn't matter what Rating Variant it is, as long as it's Rated.
* The Coins need to be in decent spots in the level.
	+ This means that levels cannot have FREE User Coins. It's still possible to have one FREE User Coin, but no more than that is allowed.
* RobTop needs to have seen that the level has decent coins.
	+ User Coins will stay Bronze Coins until RobTop approves of the coins.

However, in the Coin Rating System, these rules (except for the Rating Rule) aren't taken very seriously. In fact, a lot of levels have very free coins and yet they're still viable User Coins. Another thing to note is that the RobTop approval does not happen often on older levels that recently added Coins, as RobTop will probably not even notice the change.

### The Derating System

Sometimes, a Rated level, no matter what Rating Variant it may have, can be Unrated. This is **The Derating System**. This system Unrates levels if certain things about the level aren't appropiate anymore. Some levels may go from Featured to Rated, others may be completely Unrated. For a level to be Unrated, one of the following two requirements need to be met:

* The level is impossible.
	+ This completely Unrates the level until it's proven to be possible again.
* The song it uses isn't allowed for use anymore.
	+ This doesn't always result in an Unrate, but if it does, it usually goes from Featured to Rated.

### The Demon Rating System

The **Demon Rating System** is a newer System that controls the Demons that are Rated. This System is used to tackle Rating terrible Demons with bad gameplay. It takes the form of a democracy, letting Moderators vote on if certain Demons should be Rated or not. This process takes from a week all the way to a month. This type of treatment is *only* given to Demons, which isn't a good look for this system.

This treatment of Demons is a way to filter out the good and the bad, through many different votes from different Moderators. The gameplay and decoration of these Demons are taken to a higher standard than with easier levels. This is what this System suffers from: **Inconsistency**. Because of it being a democracy-type deal, there are bound to be differences.

## The Reporting System

**The Reporting System** allows anyone to Report a level for reasons that will be explained later. If RobTop sees that the level that was Reported broke the rules, RobTop would take it off the GD Servers.

There are four different reasons to why a level can be Reported. These are always displayed if you click on the "Report level" icon in the bottom-left of the Level Info menu. These are the following reasons for Reporting levels:

* Hacking.
	+ This mainly attacks levels that have been Hack-Verified and should be Unrated.
* Cheating.
	+ This one falls under the same vein as the last one.
* Exploiting.
	+ This correlates to assets being set in with exploits, as well as taking advantage of harmful glitches in levels.
* Abuse.
	+ This has to do with levels showing some type of harassment to others.