Vote for your own map?

[Karsten75]

I'm always suspicious of who voted for a map when I see 1 score (the author) and then one 5/5 rating for the map.  I always wonder if the author chose to rate their own map and why?

AFAICS, map rating is to get feedback from *other* people on how they perceive one's maps. Self-voting distorts that feedback and since no-one can retrieve maps based on ratings, it seems pretty pointless to me. Or at lesat marginally more pointless than me rating other people's maps.

Rarely do I find it even worthwhile to rate maps from others that I've played.

[mthw2vc]

Eh, I do rate my own maps, but never as a 5* (Unless it's really good), just as a hint to the first players about how good it is.

[UpperKEES]

Sure I rate my own maps with 5 stars. I wouldn't release them until I'm that satisfied. With hindsight I might have given a few maps a star less, but it's easy talking afterwards.

Virgil even recommends everyone doing so, see here.

[Karsten75]

Sure I rate my own maps with 5 stars. I wouldn't release them until I'm that satisfied. With hindsight I might have given a few maps a star less, but it's easy talking afterwards.

Virgil even recommends everyone doing so, see here.

That's not a recommendation, that's irony.  :)

[UpperKEES]

And reality. If you don't even like your maps, why would someone else?

[Fisherck]

Good point. :)

[SPIFFEN]

I dont rate my own maps , if i have done so , it has been done by accident =P

But i have say in another thread that the player should rate the map after finnishing it ,
and be abel to change the rate after an replay of the map .
Then the rating might be more accurate for the map .

[Tartarus Guard]

I submitted my first map today and was faced with that consideration.  I decided not to rate the map.  I'm really more curious to see how the map is rated over time by other people and my rating would just distort that.

[Ebon Heart]

I sometimes rate my own maps, but always honestly... I even gave one of my own maps a 1/5 before, because I got it up at 3 am one night and realized the next day it absolutely sucked.