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bn_rules.md
  • sublisting: are my own comments
    • so if you read this then it's a comment

To Do

  • ban anime
  • needs more conduct rules? Or CoC enough?
    • something about bns being in a position where they want to be looked up to by the modding community
    • jbh help
  • probation period should be mentioned
  • qat reserving the right to boot anyone via majority vote based on their conduct back to probation or out of probation

Rules

Rules are exactly that: rules. Violating any of these may get the respective Beatmap Nominator removed permanently from the Beatmap Nominators.

Violations of those rules may be reported to a member of the Quality Assurance Team directly.

General

  • Every mapset is approved through two nominations. Other factors such as the mapset itself being a Marathon, a normal spread or its length do not matter, the amount of nominations required in order to move it to the Qualified section remains at two. More nominations than necessary must not be done.
  • Do not nominate beatmap sets that you contributed to. This applies to your own maps, collaboration difficulties you participate in as well as beatmaps that you hitsounded or made a storyboard for.
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  • Do not nominate a map directly without any communication with the mapper. The mapper might have done self-changes after the last icon, so nominating a mapset without communicating with the mapper can lead to pointless disqualifications.
  • Do not qualify any beatmaps if you are not yet a full member of the Beatmap Nominators. Upon joining the Beatmap Nominators you will be put on probation for one to two months where you may only bubble beatmaps and are not allowed to qualify them.
  • Do not nominate beatmaps of game modes you are not formally qualified for. You must be qualified to nominate at least one of the game modes included in the mapset by being a member of the respective part of the Beatmap Nominators in order to be allowed to nominate it.
  • Do not nominate maps with unrankable issues. The General Ranking Criteria and additionally all mode-specific Ranking Criteria apply to all sets with mode-specific difficulties.
    • i feel dumb that we thought that was necessary given that at the time we wrote it there was a test about this stuff
  • Do not qualify mapsets whose song already has a Qualified mapset, unless no game modes of both sets overlap - this includes remixed versions. For example an osu!taiko and osu! mapset of the same song can exist in the Qualified section, whilst an osu!taiko and osu!/osu!taiko hybrid set cannot. This ensures variety among Ranked beatmaps within their respective game modes.
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  • If a bubbled map contains unrankable issues, its bubble must be popped. This applies even if you do not intend to nominate the mapset.
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  • At least 24 hours must pass between a bubble and a qualification on every mapset. This gives other Beatmap Nominators and also the wider community the chance to provide additional suggestions before qualification and veto the placed bubble if necessary.
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  • Do not qualify over any manually popped bubble set by another Beatmap Nominator. Manually popping bubble resets the bubble counter to zero, so doing this is equivalent to directly qualifying a beatmap without any prior icons.
  • Make sure no mod posts in the map thread have been ignored before qualifying or bubbling a map. Posts without a sufficient reply may count as ignored. When in doubt, double check if the Code of Conduct for Mapping and Modding has been violated on the mapthread and act accordingly.

Conduct

  • Do not follow any unfinalized rules or amendments.
  • Do not nominate a beatmap if you are unsure of something. In such cases, ask fellow nominators for assistance before making any rushed decisions. This includes unfamiliar game modes, suspiciously gray area/unrankable issues, quality issues or complex timing.
    • how to enforce / check this? General mindset stuff seems weird if we cannot check for it
  • Do not nominate a beatmap if you cannot reasonably judge it. Being able to reasonably evaluate a beatmap, either through playtesting or modding experience, is a core part of being able to judge a beatmap’s quality. If you are deemed not to have sufficient playing skill or modding experience, we may call your ability to judge the map into question.
    • taiko complained about this limiting the upper end of spectrum + there's a bunch more ways to judge maps
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  • Do not qualify a beatmap if any significant changes were made since it was bubbled. These may include fixing unrankable issues, changes in object snapping, major changes in flow or object placement, alterations to a song’s timing, etc. When in doubt, such beatmaps must be rebubbled first.
    • This could include that changing anything that would otherwise be unrankable requires a rebubble because chances are high that not only one but 15 things might be missed
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  • Ensure that kudosu is awarded to all posts that deserve it. Additionally consult the mapper before giving out kudosu to make sure there are not any reasons why the post does not need kudosu (e.g. the modder has received one already for a different post which you overlooked). If the modpost is too old to receive kudosu, consult the modder to make an additional post linking the original he receives kudosu for.
  • You must not place any icons besides the star, bubble, bubble pop and heart. Whilst you are able to set other icons, they are either deprecated and discouraged from use (flame, circle, drum, apple, piano) or reserved for use by the Quality Assurance Team (nuke). If you accidentally set an unwanted icon, contact a QAT immediately or overwrite the icon in case you wanted to post a bubble or heart.
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  • Do not nominate a beatmap without properly checking all difficulties of the beatmap all by yourself. If you are unfamiliar with the game mode some of the difficulties are mapped in, ask fellow Nominators for help. Improper checking includes just running a modding tool before nominating or not even downloading the beatmap.
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  • You cannot rebubble a map you nominated until the Nominator who placed the bubble-pop agrees to it. In these cases another nominator may rebubble the map if they disagree with the bubble pop.
    • "do not rebubble a map without making sure that the one that popped the bubble is fine with you doing that. If an agreement cannot be reached you cannot rebubble the map"
    • "If a mapset you bubbled was popped by another nominator, you must not rebubble the map without agreement from the popping nominator. Another nominator may rebubble the map if they disagree with the bubble pop, however. If an agreement cannot be reached, you cannot rebubble the map."
  • You can veto a beatmap set by placing a bubble pop on the set that you disagree with being fit for being Ranked. Bubble popping over any kind of quality issues that you think need to be addressed before the map can move anywhere is one of your main responsibilities. A proper discussion with attempting to reach a mutual agreement by both sides of the argument has to follow.
    • all veto stuff is really really really complicated and headache inducing
  • You are free to pop a rebubble of another nominator if you are not the original bubble popper and disagree with the reasoning for disregarding the bubble pop. Thus the original popper is unable to overvote two other nominators.
  • If the community member(s) requesting disqualification cannot reach an agreement with the mapper and you placed the last bubble or heart on a map, you cannot rebubble or requalify it. For osu!taiko, osu!catch, osu!mania, and hybrid sets, you may break these conditions once per map due to the low number of nominators.
    • did exception ever happen / was it ever needed?
  • Abide by the osu! Community Rules and the Code of Conduct for Modding and Mapping at all times. As a Beatmap Nominator, your behaviour should serve as a positive example to other members of the community. Infringing upon the Code of Conduct may result in you being placed on a temporary probation, or in extreme cases, removal from the Beatmap Nominators.
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