The reason for the breakdown is so you can see exactly how each battler is scored on the scale. Lets say for example you jumped in a battle with Spadez, did much better than him, and a friend of his simply comes on the site and says “I think spadez did better cuz his punches were good”

How do you argue that? We’d have to count the vote, even if you easily beat him.

If he broke down the score and you can see he cheated you, or the numbers dont make sense, we can look into it and even DQ the vote.

We have thought about the ‘quicker’ method, for faster votes/battles. But do you think its worth the risk?

It’s too bad we don’t have a rating system, like a 5 star click thingy. Hmm…maybe I can get some of my web development homies to help you folks out.
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Actually it would be pretty easy to build a simple HTML rating system, but mods would have to check the output (.csv, Excel file) to see who won. I might even be able to pre-build a .CSV that calculated the winner and stuff. I dunno. I think we’d have a problem with vote-flooding, though, as I don’t know how to limit how many times somoene can submit a form…

yeah i agree with what KC said.i actually was bitching about the Breakdowns in past battles because people would just go and say who won and not tell how they won.the Breakdown is necessary because it actually shows where you and your opponent did better and where you need to improve on.not a lot of votes now-a-days use the breakdown and i always thought that was bs.the breakdown should be manditory for everyone.

Hmm….interesting, let me know if you have anything Josh, and i’ll forward it to Slant and we’ll see if we can throw it in.

Some people do like to vote in 0.5s too, so it might be an idea to implement “half-stars” if ya know what I mean.