Originally Posted by Phredreeke Problem: You're relying on people to be nice. People are bastards.
Yes, i can see that. So that's why they can either decide to change becuase they don't like people disagreeing with them, else they can continue and find themselves banned.
Grow up or don't grow up, it's everyone's choice.
So you're saying people should be banned for giving a zero star rating? Then why does it exist in the first place???
- Ok, you must admit that was the most creative cussing this site have ever seen -
No, i'm saying people should be banned for winding people up and/or creating friction between members of the TDC community. If you give a game 0 stars to change the average score of a download because you disagree with its popularity then you are going to anger people. If you give it 0 stars and clearly explain why, and you explainations are rational, then you will far more less likely anger people.
I don't think the 0 star rating should be disallowed, i think it has it's place. There are some people, such as Phizzy and QuaziGNRLnose, who have recently abused the 0 star rating.
I received similar critique when I rated Simile House. I grant you my score was extremely harsh and I didn't provide enough proof as to why, but fact of the matter was, I was given shit because I didn't give it a perfect like everyone else. Even the developer of the game himself, gave to me and told me that he appreciated my honesty, so whose wrong here? I was honest at the time.
Originally Posted by Phizzy Oh so you're just abandoning your point and attacking me? Good show.
I'm not attacking, just pointing out the difference. I agree with your point about AndyUK's review, i just re-read it and thought he made his point in the right place. I don't think the right way to make your point is by deliberatly down-voting downloads, which is what you did. I have no problem with you, just what you did. Do you see?
Hmm actually maybe we shouldn't have an overall rating either? Does it need to be a competition? Do our own opinions have to drag everyone else's up or down?
We really need to encourage decent reviews guys. At the very, VERY least make one point of criticism in your comment. No game is perfect, seriously guys not even Knytt stories!
Don't aim for perfection- you'll miss the deadline
'~Tom~ says (16:41):
well why does the custom controls for the keyboard palyer even affect the menu controls at all whats thep oint jsutm ake it so for the keyboard palyer on the menu screens everything is always up down left right enter regardless of the controls they set'
Originally Posted by Phizzy See, that doesn't happen for everyone. AndyUK rated Mini Falafel 3/5. He was attacked by people saying he was voting just to reduce the score. He gave reasons for why he gave that rating. People continued. He wrote a review for the game being very clear as to why he was giving the ratings. People started commenting on his review, saying stupid things like 'the game is perfect, how dare you criticise it?'
That's not quite what happened. Although I did enjoy reading that account of helpless little AndyUK battling the entire community just to have his opinion heard.
Andy rated 3/5 - fair enough - but it was his "n/a" comment that got people upset. He then reviewed it and people disagreed, which is also fair, but then he justified his ratings by saying things like "I have very high standards for music" despite rating the ripped Xmas MIDIs in Candy Capters 7/10 - the same as Knytt Stories got for its original mp3 soundtrack. No one likes Xmas MIDIs and that's a fact, so don't try to tell us that he wrote a model review or anything. Also, I don't know where you got that quote. If you're referring to Codemonkey's comments, that's a joke and the clue is that he posted the 6 times about the same thing.
Then came Andy's trolling on the other reviews for the same game, and the continued comments on the download page to make sure that no one dared mention something positive about the graphics, music or gameplay without Andy saying obvious things like "it's easy when you know what to do". He's entitled to his opinion, but he was repeatedly checking every page relevant to the game for a few days. No idea why.
THEN came Phizzy and Phred's 0/5 rating because you think you're justice warriors or something.
Originally Posted by Phizzy No I'm not. Do people seriously not understand why I did it? A little group of BFFs (omg little finger handshake!) all went in and voted 5 purely to get it to the top of the ratings. It is clearly not the best game on the site. I fixed.
Fixed what?
You can log off any time you like, but you can't ever leave.
Originally Posted by Phizzy No I'm not. Do people seriously not understand why I did it? A little group of BFFs (omg little finger handshake!) all went in and voted 5 purely to get it to the top of the ratings. It is clearly not the best game on the site. I fixed.
Fixed what?
I don't understand Phizzy's quote either.
There is no such group of people rating my game 5/5 just to get it to the top of the charts. That's what you made up to justify your own actions, my friend.
The rating system is obviously not working and we need a new one. Your solution is to rate games 0/5 and 5/5 until the charts are displaying Phizzy's Top 10 Games?
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