I'd think that a favorited system would be pointless. Good for projects maybe, because there's nothing that says that a project is bad. The downloads' star rating system works well enough as it is; there's barely anyone abusing it. In fact, abuses are so rare that when one person does it, everyone notices. The article rating system gets abused a lot more, but from the polls, it seems that nobody noticed.
Good games get 4.x stars, ok games get 3-4 stars. That's fine for me. You guys are spoiled, especially those who complain when someone doesn't vote 5 stars
Now one thing that worries me is the way we judge top downloads. That should maybe be deleted altogether.. and replaced with a page that lists "highly recommended" downloads and such
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Originally Posted by cecil64 its not really a rating system though. its just a tally of how many people think the download isnt crap. if its worth a dl.
Yes.. but isn't that the whole point? So people know which games are good?...
The favourites system would work fine, it'd be just the same as the old thumbs system but instead of getting a rating based on the two numbers you just have a score based on how many people liked it. If the game is bad no-one will "like" it and it will be ranked low - so really it functions as a rating system that people can't abuse without multiple accounts etc.
If you have a favorite system then there is no point in having a thumbs down. Just let the top games be noted by how many added it as a favorite and also have a section on people's profiles to look at their favs.
The one major flaw with a favorites system is that it'll collect more favorited votes after a long time, compared to better games which are newer. So if you have a fairly decent game submitted 3 years ago, nothing new can beat it. And of course, guys with their own cliques will get a lot more votes than they deserve.
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Originally Posted by Knudde (Shab) Hence the thumbs up system I suggested a few pages back. No downs, only ups. Then you could sort by how many thumbs a download has.
Technically this will be implimented with favourites when I get a spare moment (as with the projects)
That doesn't sound fun. I like the current rating system. It works :/
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If you remove the zero stars then you support idiots making crap and possibly insulting games. TBH I think you should just ignore the overall rating and see what people you usually agree with have voted. SMART
Originally Posted by ~Zigzag~ If you remove the zero stars then you support idiots making crap and possibly insulting games. TBH I think you should just ignore the overall rating and see what people you usually agree with have voted. SMART
It seems very peculiar to use a 6 grade rating system, if you decide to keep the 0 rating atleast up the number so we have 0-10 so the ratings can be more precise.
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