Answer 1

You should batch publish all of your backwards maps at once, then hide all of them but one, and collect all the installplay/download/leaderboard links in the description of that map. Hidden maps are still playable, downloadable, have leaderboards, etc, and this way we can avoid bogging down actual content with low-effort spam. At the same time, the negative impact on the people that enjoy these maps will be minimal.

Another month of this really wouldn't be fair to content creators.

Answer 2

^ agreed

Answer 3

I enjoy some of these maps, but I agree with what dough says. The biggest problem is that these backwards maps, although a neat idea, are very easy to replicate, and it's trying to crowd in with some of the more original maps that some people spend lots of time creating.

Answer 4

I agree with dough as well. Not that I hate these maps, they just are seriously crowding the atlas.

Answer 5

please take dough's suggestion

Answer 6

Dough for president

Answer 7

Completely agreed. I don't mind the idea of including "backwards" maps, but seeing them getting spammed all over Atlas lately has gotten pretty irritating.

Answer 8

+1 to all

Answer 9

This is a pretty good idea - I don't mind these maps per se, but every original map I'm looking for gets drowned down several pages so incredibly fast like this.

Answer 10

There appears to be a consensus on the front page being overcrowded, and looking at the numbers now, I agree that regular maps being published aren't having the same exposure they were prior to the backwards maps. Quantifying this, looking at how many times these regular maps were downloaded on average before and currently, a ~20% drop in downloads can be observed.

Right now when a map is submitted to the Atlas it stays on the front page for ~5-6 days, which is indeed somewhat too short a time. If I however were to publish a backwards map once every two days as opposed to every day, the front-page longevity should double.

Hiding the maps seems too-extreme a solution, so for now I'm going to give uploading every other day a try. If a new map stays on the front page for ~10 days, one would imagine that this exposure should give anyone interested in a map the chance to see and play it. If for some reason this doesn't return the average downloads per map to previous counts, I'll try for another solution (such as what Dough suggested).

Civilized discourse as opposed to flame is nice and productive! Apologies for the trouble I've caused, friends.

Answer 11

Okay here's what will need to happen:
I'm going to make it so any maps made by "Thth" that have a name that ends in "Backwards" will not appear on the "most recent" or "hot" lists.  That way you can still publish the maps and have a page for them, but they won't appear on the front page.  Then you can make your own general map and, in the description, link to all the pages of the maps.  Just make sure the name of your general map doesn't end in "Backwards".

I'm gonna do it in a bit, not asap, because I'm a bit busy.  But you might want to start thinking about how you want to format the general map.

Answer 12

@Madtato : Thank you for proving me i was right about you kid.
Now i know who's behind those fake account, you should be really ashamed of yourself.

Answer 13

It's not me. I'm not ashamed to do it on my own account, so why would i be ashamed of someone else making those accounts? I'll say things straight up.

Answer 14

@lifeformed: I've already published and hidden all the maps, so there's no need to make exceptions to hide the maps (if it'd be easy and fast to do though, then it would be nice so I could unhide the maps so they'd show up in search and allow comments :)

Answer 15

I AGREE. WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED!

Answer 16

Why did I get a key from that...

Answer 17

He uses already existing maps and edits them. There's a known "bug" that using a stock map will give you a key like a regular map does. Keys obtained this way will however disappear when closing the game.

Also one of the main reasons I would suggest not using these maps because this can become confusing indeed.