Blog Games New Rubric Feedback

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Last updated: Wednesday January 26th, 2022
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DISCLAIMER: This blog WILL be deleted when the Week 9 blog comes out next week.

Since people have expressed their disappointment with the current Blog Games criteria, we have decided to explain them further and add more detailed point values. Here is the prototype that we have made:

Rubric Beta for W8	Value	Points	Subcategories	Explanation
Formatting		/2	Color	Has good color, contrast is used well
		/2	Commitment	Looks like the user cares about the appearance of the blog
		/2	Appearance	Looks pleasing
		/2	Not Overused	Formatting is not overly used or uninteresting
		/2	Creativity	Is not reliant on the default format of a blog, has variety in the text and formatting in general
		or
		/2	HTML Use	Is used with a good understanding and knowledge of HTML

Grammar		/2	Spelling	No missspelld werds
		/2	Punctuation	Quotations, periods, commas used correctly
		/1	Word Choice	Words chosen carefully, makes blog interesting to read

Appeal		/2	Title/Thumbnail	Title, thumbnail, and blurb are interesting and draw the reader in
		/6	Topic	Topic is interesting and well chosen
		/2	Continuation	Makes the reader want to finish reading the blog (in other words, not clickbait)

Information (for informative blogs)		/5	Research	Information looks like it took effort to find, is correct, and is well-sourced
		/8	Information	Information is relative to the topic, is interesting (not common knowledge), and helps the reader learn something
		/2	Quantity	Has enough information so that the reader understands the topic but not too much as to discourage people from reading
or
Content (for other blogs)		/4	Length	Comfortable length, is not too long or too short
		/3	Variety	Phrases and main ideas are not repeated several times over and over again throughout the blog
		/8	Quality	Content is organized, well-thought-out, and worth the reader's time to read

Uniqueness (in a series)		/5	Information	Information is different from other blogs in series, facts are not repeated throughout different blogs
		/3	Consistency	Blog quality and model consistent throughout series
		/2	Formatting	Formatting is somewhat consistent throughout the series (excluding improvements)
or
Creativity (not in a series)		/6	Originality	Idea is original, not copied from other users
Creativity (not in a series)		/4	Execution	Executes idea well, difficult for others to improve upon
Total	0	/100

If you have any suggestions or requests, please state them in the comments. We are sorry that this blog had to be kept short, but we just wanted to hear the feedback from other users on a possible fix to the criticism with the grading system. If you want to give suggestions on what we should change for the rubric to make it fairer, please comment on any worries you have. (btw the rubric is like 8000 characters please help us)

Level 59

Jan 26, 2022

You are now able to view the blog in dark mode now, although the fixes are a little bit bright for the time being.

Level 63

Jan 25, 2022

This is great! To be honest, me, personally didn't have any problem with the grading and ranking of the blogs last week but its nice to see a further breakdown for the points :)

Level 59

Jan 26, 2022

Well we were still actually planning to do this system before all the criticism happened, but didn't really have any motivation lol. The criticism in I think Week 5 though ig gave us more motivation to do it lol

Level 65

Jan 25, 2022

This is great! I think this should be kept, it's a good guide.

Level 65

Jan 25, 2022

Agreed, you probably should keep this rubric. Don't delete it, people who didn't see this still won't be happy

Level 75

Jan 25, 2022

Couple cells are broken in dark mode

Level 66

Jan 26, 2022

Fixed (currently waiting for Ethaboo to submit)

Level 73

Jan 25, 2022

Well, to be honest, all this rubric makes it feel like a real competition, which I believe defeats the purpose of Blog Games.

Can you elaborate the "information" section? What does information mean? Some blogs are not meant to be informative at all, and rather made for entertainment and satirical purposes only. For example, MiecraftMan's Funny Headlines series, DOTJE and mine WUFAW. How would you grade the information criteria for such blogs?

Level 75

Jan 25, 2022

I believe that's what the content section is for

Level 73

Jan 25, 2022

I meant about the information in the "uniqueness" section.

Level 75

Jan 25, 2022

Well, for satirical blogs creativity fits better imo

(also I don't think Ethanaboo and Chen came across that since they are rare and mostly aren't made into a series)

Level 73

Jan 25, 2022

So, not all of these criteria are going to be applied on a blog, right?

Level 75

Jan 25, 2022

There's "or" in these tables, so yes, not all will be applied

Level 73

Jan 25, 2022

There IS an or!? Well, I didn't notice that. Blame the dark mode for that. It's completely invisible in dark mode. Anyway, then it's fine. I still find some criterion to be given way too much weightage, but it's okay I guess.

And thanks bread for clarifying my doubts!

Level 68

Jan 25, 2022

Yeah several formatting issues on this blog for dark mode users, ironic for a blog trying to show what will be graded.

Level 68

Jan 25, 2022

I see why this happened. They didn't write the HTML themselves, they used another tool to do it. If you look at the HTML, it's fairly sloppy (using spans to define colours) and has very odd css usage, something which would never happen if it was written by themselves.

I'll mark this blog a 0 / 2 for HTML knowledge.

Level 59

Jan 25, 2022

Chen converted the spreadsheet html into JP so I have no idea what the problem is lol. This was meant to be just a quick blog though to get feedback on if we should change anything with it. This is only supposed to be experimental to see if it is a good system to use for grading. It will be used for week 9 though without a doubt, so be ready ig lol

Level 75

Jan 25, 2022

Dark mode users make up a decent portion of the active userbase as far as I'm aware. It's not unjustified. Broken HTML is poor formatting if anything.

Also, switching between light and dark modes burns your eyes.

Level 59

Jan 25, 2022

wait so does that mean i can get out of school by burning my eyes? thanks

Level 65

Jan 25, 2022

I switch between modes every 5 minutes lol

Level 77

Jan 26, 2022

@Miecraft just because you might use light mode, doesn't mean that everybody does. There are people who use dark mode for personal/health reasons, there are people (like myself) who use dark mode to be consistent with the other websites they use.

If something does not work in dark mode, then we should be allowed to say this. It would be like a light mode user saying "I can't see [thing] in light mode" and me saying "well it wouldn't matter because I use dark mode".

Also I would like to point out that many people have made a permanent switch to dark mode. I don't want to strain my eyes by looking at light mode.

Level 68

Jan 26, 2022

To add to this, both myself and QM permanently use dark mode for everything.

Level 66

Jan 26, 2022

Makes me wonder if I should have just included a link to a Google sheet. Also, I make blogs in light mode because in dark mode, the dashed lines, the dividers, and text are all white, which both gives me a headache and is confusing.

Level 60

Jan 26, 2022

Sorry, i didn’t realize it was harmful switching back and forth, and that so many users used Dark Mode.

Level 60

Jan 26, 2022

Looking back i see that my comment was very rude and arrogant

Level 60

Jan 25, 2022

You should keep this blog, imo. These new categories are pretty good

Would colorful pictures work for the color category in formatting?

Level 59

Jan 25, 2022

An all black blog is fine, but if you do decide to include color into your blog make sure it's fits well.

Level 60

Jan 25, 2022

Also will this rubric be used tomorrow?

Level 59

Jan 25, 2022

No, since tomorrow is going to have a guest judge, we decided to do it for week 9.

Level 60

Jan 25, 2022

One last thing, unless my blogs are numbered, can you ignore my seriess (what’s the plural of series?). There don’t really relate to each other, I just like to keep my blogs tidy.

Level 59

Jan 25, 2022

Yeah that's fine I understand. Although if it is actually numbered it will be used with the uniqueness part

Level 78

Jan 25, 2022

Looks good to me, the only issue I have and i'm not that bothered about it. But in one of your earlier games blogs I was marked down because I believe the phrase was "This blog is too similar to the others in the series" It was written about one of my Capital City blogs. Now in the rubric there are 3 points for consistency and 2 for consistent formatting.

Like I say I'm not complaining or bothered, mainly because I was in the Top 5 anyway, but some consistency should be present in applying points. Unless of course this change has already been implimented when you wrote up the rubric.

Keep up the good work btw, I feel the RUB has improved a great deal since you began the games.

Level 57

Jan 25, 2022

Wonderful Criteria! I love the update.

Level 43

Jan 25, 2022

Agree with everyone. I didn’t have problems with the ranks, and this blog should be kept as a guide for us. ~~The Blog Games are becoming a job at this point lol~~

Level 54

Jan 26, 2022

To be honest, I won't change my way of writing blogs because of this blog, but I think that's a good idea to introduce clearer and more precise criteria. I think you should keep this blog published, and not remove it.

Level 59

Jan 26, 2022

I understand. This blog was mainly just supposed to be posted to get feedback on what we were going to be doing for week 9, but yeah that makes sense.

Level 60

Feb 2, 2022

Yay you kept it