Introduction

WARNING: This system involves quite a bit of organizing and other actions that many may consider tedious. If you find that you can easily remember who people are, feel free to skip this guide. I just happen to have really bad memory.

NOTE: The word "friend" is used below in the context of Steam friends, not personal friends. I do not recommend trying to rate your personal friends. They most likely won't appreciate that.

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[<Game ID>:<Skill Level><Personality><Role><Verified>]

NOTE: If this level of organization doesn't sound appealing to you, skip to the "Using Tags" section below.

My memory has never been very good, so I find that I'm often invited to a party and have no idea what to expect from the players who invited me. Eventually, I devised a system to help me keep track of all the people in my friends list.My system heavily relies on the the nickname and tagging feature of the Steam friends list. In a nutshell, each friend has awith a special identifier that defines 4 characteristics about them: Their skill level, their personality, their primary role, and a "verified" status. Using an identifier like this allows you to keep track of information about a friend and still have a traditional nickname, as the identifier is fairly compact. Since this identifier is part of the nickname you can even search for it using the friend list search box.Here's an example of a friend identifier:Theserves as a game identifier. As I may want to use this system for other games in the future, I want an easy way to recogonize this friend as a Dota player. Theis is followed by a colon, to seperate it from the four characteristics. The characteristics are skill level, personality, role, and verified status respectively.In the event you are unsure or can't remember or determine a characteristic, the letter U can be used as a filler characteristic. Once you play with that friend again, you can update the identifier with your recent impressions.The following sections go into more details about each characteristic.