As many of you know, Baxter till now has had the sole responsibility of being the Starman, the one who decides what our
recommend movies are. But Baxter has been busy as of late, and aside from minor changes by adelikat or myself, we haven't seen much activity in this area. There really is just too much for one official person, or even three when you count all the administrators.
Starred movies should be runs that people new to the site should watch to get an idea what TAS'ing is about and knock their socks off. Ideally ~5% of currently published movies should be starred, but it's hard to make a good list. The list should contain excellent TASs of popular games, excellent TASs that especially standout even for games that aren't so well known. Ideally the platform percentage should be in ratio with the amount of published movies for the platform. Meaning if NES has the most movies on the site, obviously it should have the most stars. But at the same time, platforms with just 5-10 runs should be represented too, just with less stars than our more popular platforms. Starred runs should include both long and short movies. Basically give a good ratio of some of the best movies on our site.
Do you think you'd be a good person to help keep the list updated? Are you well respected by most of the community? Do you watch a significant percentage of runs?
A Starman should have ideally
rated at least 10% of the runs on the site, be familiar with the discussions in the
Star Thread, and be active with new movies, having participated in submissions discussions, voting, rating and so on. Above all, he or she should be a team player, willing to go forward in the best interest of the site, and be reasonable in his or her decisions, and able to communicate well with others regarding nominations that come forward.
If you became Starman, what changes would you make? We could use at least 5 additions right now to the list of stars, and perhaps move 2 or 3 stars from one run to a similar but more
popular run. By similar, I mean switching a star from say one Mario NES game to another if it makes sense, or switch an any% run to a 100% run, or things like that.
Anyone up for the job? Anyone willing to throw in some ideas to changes they would make to show their seriousness?