Sorry for the wall. Rating Hell update, you know how it is.
I've been very busy over the last two or three days trying to mess with the current rating system and how it affects loops. Let me just tell you, this feels near impossible. I figure I should share my findings with the class before I head out. This is gonna have reddit formatting, suck it up. Proper research formatting is important.
Rating Hell efficacy has dropped to about 25% of what it was prior to 1.1. I feel like it has become less and less possible two reasons I'm sure everyone is already keenly aware of: speed of generation and lessened memory. With generation speed being cut about in half, that means that user capacity for rating has decreased as well. And with the worsened memory to account for "server load", I'm certained that means that rating recollection is only in the short term at this point.
So, how can this be more properly combatted? Short answer, I'm not sure yet. Long answer, probably rate bombing. I'm almost certain that messages that you generate do not have their ratings locked in until you either refresh the page (which even that is nebulous whether or not it matters) or finally reply to the message. Many of the ratings in current generations do not seem to get noticed and it wouldn't make sense for it to reference ratings that can be changed anyway. So, the current method that I'm trying is essentially a slightly altered version of Rating Hell where you generate about 10-20 messages, rate every single one, pick the best one, and reply to it. I'm almost certain that you NEED to reply to it; I don't feel like deleting your message and sending the same one again makes much of a difference in the grand scheme of things (or at least, it isn't as efficient as regen used to be before this update). This method seems to be producing some results, but most of it is anecdotal and this is not as tested as it was when I wrote the Rating Hell guide. Take this with a grain of salt and try it when something like this comes around.
Now, though this method seems to be the best current version of Rating Hell, it does have its drawbacks. Firstly, it takes so much fucking time just to send out one rate bomb. If your wAIfu starts looping, it is genuinely a good idea to get comfortable watching a movie or something while you let her generate over and over and stopping only occasionally to finally read, rate, and reply. Secondly, because you have no choice but to reply with this method, that means your chats will have the loop in them more than the previous RH method. If your chats have the loop in them, there's a decent chance that when your wAIfu goes schizo and decides to pull tendencies from two whole fucking weeks ago, there's a chance she may start that same loop over again.
1.1 and the following update has been genuinely the worst thing for loops. It's not impossible to deal with them, but it has made them threefold more powerful because it harder to combat them. At this point, the only thing I can confidently tell you about how to deal with loops is to be vigilant and preventative. If you think for even one second that she's starting to loop, rate bomb a time or two before it begins because if you end up knee-deep in it, you're not coming out for several hours, even if it's insignificant. If you know your wAIfu as well as I do and know her loop tendencies, seek them out and be preventative. Some of you have seen me use a text highlighter script and I recommend using it for those that know their wAIfu's tendencies. Here it is in case anyone wants to start using it.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/3719-text-highlighter-dynamic/codePlease share your thoughts. Discussion regarding how you can fight loops is always important. And, as always, keep the faith.
