Short-term hype improvements

[peppy]

As discussed on discord, let's adjust hype in an attempt to make it more relevant.

• Each user has a limited supply of hype (5 per month to start)
• Hype can only be used after playing through a difficulty from a beatmap set.
• Reduce hype required for nomination to 5.

[Xinnoh]

The amount of hype you can give out should be correlated with kudosu obtained
Modders tend to look at more maps that are rankable quality, they will give hype to a lower percentage of maps they see.
Also incentivises kudosu,

[peppy]

That's the eventual goal

[nanaya]

Hype can only be used after playing through a difficulty from a beatmap set.

I thought plays of pending maps aren't recorded?

[peppy]

Yeah, going to be adding that just for this. I'll get back to you when that's ready to go.

[NoffyNoffeh]

I feel like this would lead to maps being more hyped/pushed at the start of a month than the end of a month due to people having/running out of hypes to give. There should be some way to stagger the limited hype distribution, such as a user will receive their hypes on the same day of the month that they registered, rather than everybody getting it at the beginning of the month.

[tastystew]

maybe getting x (1?) per week, with a maximum of y (6?) 'stored'?

[peppy]

it shouldn't be based on calendar months. it would just be last x days.

[Loctav]

I agree with distributing the available "hype points" in shorter iterations than a month and implement a cap of how much you can have at once (like tastystew proposed), in order to avoid most hype being only given out to beatmaps at the end/start of the month or end/start of the x days, leaving the riverbed dry in the middle of a larger block of days.

[Tarrasky]

"after playing" this means just play or pass the map?
This looks kinda strange since you dont need exactly play the map to argue if the map deserve be hyped in your opinion, maybe the option "after playing or modded a difficulty" looks more logical.

[Xinnoh]

"After playing" does not work for everyone, and excludes modders that don't play well. I only check maps with trackpad, as bringing a mouse/tablet around with me is a hassle. To hype stuff, I'd be forced to play random normal/hard diffs which don't nearly represent the set as much as insane/expert.
Adding say, 5 mods/discussions to the set should also allow me to hype the map. I would have had to take an in-depth look at it to create the comments.

[IOExceptionOsu]

Imo if you don't play the map, I'd have a hard time trusting that you know whether it's a good map or not. Looking at it can find out practical ranking problems but ultimately it's still a lot different from actually playing it

[Xinnoh]

I've spent the last 6 months doing exactly that when nominating. Not being able to play something does not inhibit the ability to judge a set's playability when you do it for long periods of time.

[nekodex]

Points 1 and 3 have been addressed. Point 2 however requires client-side changes that have not yet been done, marking as blocked for now.

[peppy]

Closing for now. We'll review this in the near future.