-Get rid of DC-points.
-Ban deflamatory language directed at others and racial or ethnic slur.
-Stop spamming and flaming.
-Make downloads and previews contain at least one screenshot.
-Write a rules page.
If there weren't any ratings, clickers would be less productive. Ratings produce competition which is essential to for game development. Without competition and goals, we wouldn't make as many games and, therefore, we won't obtain as much experience from making simpler games and then builing up.Having goals and comptition drives game development like most other things.
REMEMBER PEOPLE!
A picture may be worth 1000 words, but pictures
are very one-minded in their interests. Write
GOOD descriptions!
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An old account of mine, recently cleared out. It's a blast to the past, the age was marked as 14 when I found it. If you know where to look, you can track me. Au revoir.
No fat chicks, na just kidding, I can't tell the difference online anyway. Seriously though, I think that reviewing your own game should either be allowed or disabled. I also noticed that it's possible to review the same game twice to get more DC points. Then again, if I wanted DC points, I could get them more easily than reviewing the same game twice.
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"A picture may be worth 1000 words, but pictures are very one-minded
in their interests. Write GOOD descriptions!" -Keatonian 1/11/2004
-Above post is ancient and probably irrelevant-
An old account of mine, recently cleared out. It's a blast to the past, the age was marked as 14 when I found it. If you know where to look, you can track me. Au revoir.
A set of rules would be a great idea. Most sites have them ... and you have to accept them when you join.
Then when a rule is broken the admin can simply specify "You broke rule number X" and thats it. No mistakes. As to the contents ... hmm ...
I agree with what Pete suggests allthough I think there is more and some topics could be explained further. Bear in mind though, that simple rules are more likely to be read and followed than complex ones. A 1000 lined blabber-blabber text is not likely to be read.
"why try and make a perfect site by taking away ratings and making everyone equal".
We dont necessary want to make everyone equal. But is it not the "spirit" of TDC that everyone is equally good and can submit articles and games no matter the quality?
As another thread puts it a "member since xx-xx-xxxx" could generally tell more about the user. The longer a member the "better" a person skill/participation wise (that would account for the standard user).
As there is no distinguish between quality and quantity in the current DC rating system a high rating could easily mean "Im a good crap poster" as well as "Ive posted a lot of good stuff to the community".
Well, this is probably more than any of you will be able to sit through reading given your 15-second attention spans, especially since none of these changes will actually take place, but I did use a lot of bullet points.
1. First off, people should probably stop agreeing that "deflamatory" language should not be used since it's not a word. Inflamatory plus defamatory does not equal deflamatory.
2. Screen shots and minimum character limits should be required. Why?
2a. Nobody wants to go through the bother of downloading your crap if you can't go through the bother of advertising its features.
2b. All these retarded "previews" where people talk about games they've just decided to make, but obviously never will complete, are a waste of time and space. Screen shots and character limits will weed out a lot of this crap by ensuring that at least *some* work has been done on a previewed project.
3. For many of these same reasons, articles should be well-written and apply to clicking. If you want a well-written article on pancake recipes, go to pancakes.org. If you want a badly written article, well, most people here can obviously write their own. Articles should be much more selectively edited and organized according to their content.
4. The DC rating is kind of ridiculous since it attempts to correlate your level of expertise with how much you post. People who frequent the site are aware of this misrepresentation, and most people don't care, but I can see how a new member could think they were getting a good answer from an "expert" member who was really only 13 years old and had only gained that rating by posting a lot of vaporware previews. So, yes, a person's level of expertise, as it pertains to The Daily Click more so than to Clicking in general, would be more accurately reflected if it were based on how long someone had been a member.
5. One should be limited to one preview per project. As far as not posting a preview too soon before a project is released, well, that's very subjective. If a game only takes a week to make, a couple of days beforehand is actually fairly far from the end of development. Then again, a project that only takes a week probably doesn't need a preview to begin with. Still, I think there would be enough restrictions on previews with the changes already suggested to curb enough abuse.
6. Personally, I would like to see a few age-specific forums here. Maybe three forums, and you can only choose to be a part of one of them: one for littler kids to discuss the ins and outs of Pokemon, one for the older teenagers who are not totally retarded but yet discuss everything as though they're the first people on earth to have such thoughts, and one for old decrepit bastards who haven't figured out that they should probably drop clicking completely and get a real hobby. Then again, I represent a real minority on this point and I'm certain there aren't enough people here to fill the third forum to make it of much use. Still, I like the core of the site and I like to pretend more experienced people would stick around if they didn't have to wade through so much of the kiddie stuff.
And... that should probably kill the discussion right there. Thanks, everybody!
Anyway, it's a good topic, Pete, because it lets people believe for a short amount of time in the illusion that their opinions matter and that things may change here.
Also, you should be allowed to use indentations in your posts. Sheesh. No wonder nobody reads multiparagraph posts. That's just ugly.
Also, you should be able to edit your overly long posts to add line breaks to make them less visually horrifying. "You cannot edit this post." WHY THE HELL NOT???
Indenting like this? Yes, it is retarded that some people post previews for games that they finish in within one week. As for vaporware previews, that can't b e helped by most people. I just got an idea. If the preview's posted make a commetn that says that they've quit making the game, others can use the game as abandonware.Or if nobdy takes over the permanently abandoned project, the vaporware previews will at least give others some ideas for games.
Now here's another indented paragraph....or sentence.
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