Remembering the OLD VHL Grading System

[eaglesfan036 4,603]

Back in the day, in order for you media spot to earn you a 6/6, it had to be reviewed by two different reviewers before you could claim you 6 tpe. They graded you on a 1-6 scale, looking at you hitting the word count, pictures, formatting, and grammar. There would legit be people who got like a 1/2 for grammar and only earn a 5/6 for their weekly media spot. Or would get penalized for only including one picture or not bolding or something. Kids these days who use their grammarlys to speak check would be left in the dust. A similar system applied to artsy fartsy graphics, but I have no idea how that worked since I never have done art. After you received your grade from the two graders, only then could you put this into your update page, which was done manually and not on a portal. Then, you had to wait for your updater to actually update it, which sometimes could take a week or so. Then, it was someones job to update your updated page into the sim, which was a rare occurrence. If I remember correctly, players only got updated in the sim like 3 times a season, and getting updates done in time for playoff updates was a huge deal. 

[DollarAndADream 3,356]

Yeah, I did sort of like the old grading system. It wasn't friendly towards people who wanted to have fun though.

 

We just didn't have the graders to keep up with all the PTs. People were waiting on PTs to be graded, and it was a few people doing them all at the end of the week.

 

Old grading made it so people had to try harder as well, especially for graphics. These days, like 90% of people who post graphics wouldn't get a 6. Experts got a 6, and I only had a 6 sometimes if I did a graphic. I didn't start posting graphics until I knew I might have a 6. Hell, probably a lot of the writing these days wouldn't get a 6 either.

 

Eventually SBA made the move to reviewing, and being able to claim stuff right away, then VHL followed suit. I used to get kind of stressed out because we never had enough graders to keep up with the work load. Good times.

[diamond_ace 3,112]

I'm almost sad about it looking back, but I think I kept J-Cool from being a little more consistent back in some of the old football sims. There were times when my list of grammar corrections took up more lines than his articles.