Having a game being unrated is just the same as having someone come along and go "OLOL THUMBS DOWN" for the hell of it.
It stops people doing that, because those kind of people won't really bother writing an article explaining why they're voting so low.
Plus if you have ratings directly connected with articles, their vote can be removed if the article is a big pile of crap.
The people that do vote are given a wider range of vote to choose from, sure, saying "thumbs up" is a good way of saying they like the game, but it doesnt necasarily make it the best game ever.
Just because a game has more thumbs up than another doesnt make it better than it, it could just be more popular.
But hey, that's just my thoughts. I only play a game if I think it'll be good, and if it has more reviews etc that say it's good, it'd make me want to play it more.
Worrabout... Instead of a general thumb system, a rating is tied to a comment and you can see what that person gave the game. You could then chose out of 5 stars you give to the audio, visual etc. side of the game. Sort of like a mini review. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone= remove the anonymity of the thumb system and find out in a concise way how good certain aspects of your games are.
"a rating is tied to a comment and you can see what that person gave the game. "
You know what mr james that's really an excellent idea. That way a person who is voting would need to explain themselves on why they voted the way they did. And if needed to be or if its unfair it can be deleted.
Club what do you think about this one?
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Peblo Custom ratings must be 50 characters or less
Registered 05/07/2002
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3rd June, 2007 at 11:22:39 -
Mm, sounds like people now will have to come up with a bullshit story why they voted thumbs down, though you can't change the system to fix the problem, you'd have to fix the people.
I'm for it.
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And peblo we can even tie it to the admin alert system. If someone gives a crappy reason for the rating the admin will have the ability to delete this.
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Peblo Custom ratings must be 50 characters or less
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3rd June, 2007 at 11:34:59 -
Giving the admins even more power definitely fixes the system.
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