A Quake Live rating system?

Wouldn’t it be nice if Quake Live had some kind of rating system? If a player is being a total moppet, you could actually do something about it.

Firstly for those of you who don’t play xbox live, i’ll quickly explain the rating system to you. Once you play against someone, you have the option to go into their profile and rate them. You can rate them on trash talking, inappropriate behaviour, ragequitting etc. If you have rated someone badly, you tend not to be matched up to games that they are playing in.

Anyway I was playing some clan arena last night and now I remember why I left the game uninstalled for several weeks (that’s actually part of another story). While some of us are playing Quake Live, others are playing Stats Live. While I love that all the game statistics are kept, i’m sure that many people don’t share that sentiment.

Stats Live differs from Quake Live where players are not playing the game of Quake but simply doing whatever they can in order to manipulate their Quake Live statistics to make it appear that they’re a good player. This can involve doing the following:
1. Cheating: Flat out cheating, not much explanation needed
2. Switching teams in order to be on the winning team
3. Quitting or going into spectator mode if they lose

Quake Live does have some systems put into place to try to prevent this, such as not being able to stack teams (if it’s 3v3 and you join, you will automatically be placed on the losing team). But of course these Stats Live players find a way around it. For example they will stay in spectator mode until someone else joins the losing team, thus enabling them to join the winning team.

Quake Live already has a very easy system where you can view your most recent opponents from your startpage. My idea for the rating system would be this:
All you’d have to do is click on your opponents profile and there you’ll be able to make an easy judgement through a checkbox system. Of course you don’t have to rate everyone you play against, I myself would probably use it just for the people who are being lame as fuck unsportsmanlike.

My ideas that I stole from Xbox Live for what the check-boxes could be:
Communication:
- Excessive flaming (don’t get me wrong, I love flamers but when they start telling me that i’d be better at Quake if I stopped sucking so much dick, it gets a little old)
- I’m mad because I got owned

In-game conduct:
- Stacking teams
- Ragequits
- I’m mad because I got owned

Skill:
- Too good
- Too bad
- Doesn’t even know how to fire a weapon
- I’m mad because I got owned

For duels as well, it would be cool if you could have an option to avoid certain players with the match finder.

Then some servers should have some kind of restriction (much like the skill level restriction) where people with shit ratings can’t enter. Then have open servers where all the shitty bad-attitude players can play with each other. Kind of like what the English colonial guys did with Australia.

Of course this idea isn’t perfect but it’s what it is; an idea. I know that a lot of high level players will receive low ratings from people they’re spanking just because they’re pissed about getting owned.

What do you think? Would a Quake Live rating system fly with you or is it just another thing that’s good in theory but shit in practice (like BDSM)? Let me know in the comments or tweet your thoughts @HelloLiefje