The Rated+ List is now fully finished and live on the Pointercrate website with ten new levels (Old Orochi, Thinking Space II, BASSLINE JUNKIE & more) with plenty more levels to come in the following months! (A slightly more extensive version of this announcement can be found in our Discord Server linked in our bio!) Website Changelog - A new tab on Pointercrate's header labelled "Rated+ List+ now contains both rated levels from the Demon List as well as unrated levels selected by a dedicated team of voters. - The Rated+ List has a separate stats viewer from the Demon List stats viewer. Player profiles and their relevant records are present in both, with list points adjusted accordingly. - Both stats viewers now show list profiles with 0 points, ordered by player ID. - Dark mode added. - Guidelines page updated (pending Russian translations) Rated+ Info Most details listed below are highly subject to change in pursuit of a system which provides the greatest benefit for the game and community as a whole. Purpose Rated+'s main purpose is to give well-received but overlooked levels an opportunity to place on the Demon List in a timely manner. Although RobTop's rating standards seems to be generally aligned with the community's preferences, it often takes months or years for certain levels to get rated, even when the decision to rate these levels proves overwhelmingly popular down the line. We believe the addition of this tab to be a means of shying away from RobTop's rate system for the Demon List. Placement System Unrated levels that meet the eligibility criteria are placed in a voting pool in an arbitrary order by the list team. Polls are periodically created for an independent voting committee, consisting of qualified applicants including former and current in-game moderators and rating advisors, to vote for or against each level's addition to the list. These votes are plugged into a formula that converts votes into an approval percentage, resulting in a sorted list of levels ordered from highest to lowest approval rating. In the system's current state, a level must have the highest approval rating out of all unplaced levels before being added to ⁠pending-list-changes. A formula is used to determine rate of placement so that list team members do not control whether a specific level is added. It is currently unfinalized, and as such it will be continuously tweaked to better match community interests. Voting Standards - We currently want the average player to view the levels that we've placed on this tab as clear, justifiable choices based on a level's gameplay and decoration quality, and allow the general quality thresholds of the rate system to directly inform and guide voting decisions. - A level's historical significance to the game should influence votes. - The usage of custom songs (NONGs) should not influence votes. - The status of creators/verifiers involved in the level should not influence votes in any meaningful way. However, individuals involved in serious controversy may have their names removed/censored from a level's credits at the staff team's discretion as to explicitly condemn their actions and limit attention given to them. - Above all else, voters are expected to be consistent in their standards. Level Eligibility Any level must meet a set of criteria before being added to the Rated+ voting pool: - Must be legitimately verified. - Cannot be shorter than 30 seconds. - Cannot be a layout which does not contain effects or does not follow the layout style for decorative/thematic purposes. - Cannot be variants/edits of already existing levels without drastically altered decoration (expanded on in our Guidelines). - A level which fails to meet eligibility criteria may still be polled based on historical significance. This is entirely at the staff team's discretion. Afterword Special thanks to Pointercrate Admin jasonyess as the primary developer of the new features seen on the website and @foodynooby as a leading manager for the project as a whole. Everybody on the list team put in an applaudable effort into creating a system that aims to benefit the community as best as possible. Do note, however, that we're continuing to discuss how we can best handle unrated levels on the Demon List as a whole, and everything said here is subject to change! If you'd like to contribute to the project, feel free to apply via the form linked in the replies! We're still looking to expand the current committee with even more creators, community figures, and former/current in-game moderators. With the project now done, you can look forward to the website rewrite currently in the works! A preview may even be coming Soon™. ;) Thank you all for your patience throughout Rated+'s production, and we hope that it serves as a major step towards a betterment of the Demon List and Geometry Dash as a whole. We look forward to the highlighting of many overlooked achievements and creative works of this community!