Hello Codeforces! I would like to make a feature request that in my opinion is extremely useful for virtual participants. Without a lot of talk, let me get straight to the feature i have in my mind : A rating system for the virtual contests. After someone participates in a contest, he can rate the contest on a scale from 1 to 5 or 1 to 10 for example. The rating of a contest will be the average of all the rates given by participants. This way, it will be easier to compare a contest to another, thus easier to choose a good contest to virtually participate in. Of course, only trusted participants should be allowed to rate a contest, for example only div1 users. Also, the participants should be allowed to only vote once.
UPD: It seems that rating the problems and defining the rating of a contest as the average of the ratings of the problems is a better option here.
I generally like this idea, cause it actually might be useful and I always love to rate something I'm doing. Some things though: I didn't understand, who should rate contest — only virtual participants or every contestant. If virtual — seems like there won't be enough votes. If anyone:
1) Contests rating will be affected by technical issues or something. People might hate contest because of long queue or something not related to problem's quality (huge gap in difficulty, not well understandable statements, mistakes that was fixed during the round).
2) Codeforces community is kinda toxic. I'm very toxic, so I know what I'm talking about. Some really minor issues could provide such a mass hate from community if enough people talk about it in comments. That happened to a lot of actually not that bad contests.
And ofcourse such things affects author's a lot. It's one thing when a lot of people writes hate comments (and also exists supporting one), and completely another when you contests get a low rating — that thing could really demotivate from creating other contests with better quality.
Maybe rating problems will be better then?
Sounds much better, yeah.
Yeah nice idea, also every problem should have this rating option.
It seems like a really nice idea. Definitely will be very useful, but I think if we do it for problems (like 21August and Adhami suggested) it will be even more useful.
I have suggested it before btw :'(
UPD: Thanks! =D
I agree. Contest rating can also be defined as the average of the ratings of the problems. I think that would be the best option.