How do you rate decks that beat you ?

[teffy]

I think, I still have to find a guideline for myself.  My rules (could be edited soon):

thumbs down:
- Decks, which don´t use oracle card
- "Flood Control" - these annoying decks which destroy your permanents with an unnatural number of perm control (EQ,Deflag)
- SoS (I don´t really accept this card , especially not in Arena), also SoSe (not balanced in rainbows, yet)

thumbs up:
- decks with >2 colors (not 12), which perform surprisingly well
- original decks
- change in #1 position.
- close matches with turning points.

I think in the last week, I got less than 10% thumbs up.

How can you measure that ? Is it the double amount of electrums I sometimes get ?

[Brontos]

10 or 20 electrums per win is how you know how much thumbs up you got.

[Plantifant]

Same thing happens to me too.
Most original decks, and no thumbs up..

[Elite arbiter]

Yeah, I think the thumbs down is a new trend too, from latest results.

What's the point of being quirky and losing?

There is none. The catch is to be quirky and win. I can see how it'd be hard to do this, but it 'is' possible, I'd like to think I've proven that. As it turns out I had a whole lot more to say on the subject than I thought, so I won't derail the thread and just link to  the thread I made on the subject (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,33989.0.html) instead.

[Colossus]

I tend to thumbs up any deck that can beat me in Bronze, no matter what it is. I mean most of those players don't have access to every card, so I show them slack. If a fully upped deck can lose to an unupped deck, then they deserve the thumbs up.

I know I'm the minority and I'll be made fun of, but it's how I play.

From Silver-Platinum leagues, it's all in how they use their oracle card.

All: Ghostmare, firestall (not true fire decks), Mono Aether if the oracle card isn't an aether one, and anyone that packs 6 Steals/Deflags or worse, and Bh/EQ spammers.

If I've never seen the deck, or only once or twice, I'll rate it up if it was interesting and fun to play against.

[Plantifant]

Going great, 3-0 and 3 thumb up 
It is a really original funny deck though

[ninetyfools]

LOL i used a GoTPmare and so far... 75 in silver.
No complaints. Also Its pretty easy to beat. O.o

[Siweisun]

Rate down:
Unoriginal rainbows which don't really use the oracle card
Decks which completely ignore the oracle card
Typical mono-fire or -aether
Other common decks like GotP-nightmare and speed poison

Rate up:
Anything I haven't seen before
Decks which use the oracle card creatively

Except when I'm playing gold league. Then I rate down everything except my own deck.

Wh? Gold league people needs those thumbs ups!

[mesaprotector]

^</sarcasm>

[furballdn]

If you want to go the super pragmatic approach, thumbs up the decks you ALMOST beat and thumbs down everything else

[mwaetht]

I thumbs down decks if I can guess how they work based only on their mark, their oracle card, and what they do on the first and second turns.

[Elite arbiter]

I thumbs down decks if I can guess how they work based only on their mark, their oracle card, and what they do on the first and second turns.

Now it could just be me, but I'm not sure I've seen many decks at all that you can thumbs up with this rule, its pretty easy to guess what a deck does based on the first two turns 99% of the time. The only decks I'm seeing are ones with the wrong quanta balance that don't play their cards until turn 3+. So... you thumbs up decks for quanta inefficiency?