Recently I have been revising some of my old ratings as I have changed opion on the topic but I’m not done yet. For that reason I would ask your opinions on 1-star ratings on IFDB. Should we never give a 1-star rating on IFDB without a review? (And what about 2-star ratings?) [according to IFDB: T…

Well, we already know that a score of 1 or 10 is ignored in IFComp. I hope IFDB doesn’t follow suit with such short-sightedness. Without a review, we don’t know what causes someone to rate a game a 1, but you can rest assured they were offended greatly by something in the game. It’s not always a tr…

It’s hard to know if IFDB ratings are fair. One 1-star review I gave was to a speed-IF by Andrew Schultz: [image] Civil Mimic Short entry for EctoComp 2017. A simple puzzle. I like Andrew Schultz’s games, and have give 4-5 stars for many of them; if I see o…

[image] Brian Rushton: I’ve given out 165 1-star ratings, out of 2637 total, so about 6.3% of all my total ratings. Hmm, interesting data, wonder how it looks for me? Out of 362 reviews (you know, that number usually seems impressive – I don’t know how do you do it!), I’ve done 18 one-star o…

We had a related thread about low scores for IF Comp games not too too long ago. I don’t presently rate games (besides Infocom ones), but I would write a review if I gave a one star rating. I don’t think I’d give a one for bugs. I’d leave it unrated and call it “unplayable”. I’d personally give a o…

[image] A Wthrmnstr: I’ve received a 1-star rating that was accompanied by a review saying the game was “pretty good”. I searched for your name but found nothing on IFDB. What game was this? I’d love to take a look.

I think the Jehovah-style vowel-deletions in your forum name might just be making it hard to find! Here’s the link: [image] Jack This game was in Ectocomp 2021. A total of 2 people played it. I read the review; I sorta get where they’re coming from (they sa…

A few of my random obersvations: I would like bad faith rating accounts that spray ones to be destroyed or weighted out. The problem is that to avoid destroying the innocent, we need to set a super high bar for knowing something’s bad faith. Look at this page: Ratings and Reviews by mag…

@mathbrush : no problem on Civil Mimic! It was probably my least well-planned game. For SpeedIF I usually did stuff in chunks but that one, it was done over a short period. So that was motivation/reminder for me to start early and chip away often. It would be neat to allow for, say, half-rating at t…

I mostly use IFDB to keep track of what I’ve played and what I thought of it. I agree that, since people’s rating schemes are so variable, a reviewless rating isn’t meaningful, but I’m doing it more for personal reference than for the benefit of the author or prospective players. Maybe that means I …

This is turning into a very interesting thread - thanks!

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