I think the number of voters is somewhere around the overall rating, click on that to see a list of people who voted.
Great new feature, problem is it seems a majority of games - particularly older ones - have no appinfo, thus making it impossible to collect user ratings for them...
Since a good deal of release threads are made by forum regulars, you could probably just PM whoever started it and ask them to update it. I asked eggzbacon to update the Spider thread and he was happy to oblige. I'm not seeing any difference between appinfo and appinfo2...
Appinfo2 is the new appinfo Arn introduced in this thread. Now the old "appinfo" has been replaced with the new "appinfo2" so that there`s no need to manually update the old threads. Whenever I see an old thread with no appinfo I always edit the first post to add it there. I think I`ve already updated atleast 20 threads with appinfo in last couple of weeks. If you`ll search hard enough you`ll find quite a few first posts Last edited by ImNoSuperMan . If anyone finds an old thread with no appinfo, feel free to either PM the mods or the OP to update it
Sorry for the noob question but do you have to do anything after you press your star rating on a game to submit it? Cause I press the stars and they fill in but Will090 doesn't show up under the people who have rated it
Please remove the star rating feature in appinfo because it is just going to be abused by trolls and dishonest types. The December monthly hidden gems thread has shown that this type of abuse can happen. An app does not deserve being presented with lower or higher ratings than it deserves because of trolls or dishonest devs.
It's no different to the App Store. Trolls will always rate stuff low, but if a game is actually worth a high score, there will be enough fans backing it up to put the star rating where it belongs. Quality always shines through. To be honest I look at star ratings as an indication of popularity rather than quality. Lesser-known apps might suffer from people maliciously rating them low, without having enough fans to up the score, but that would just say to me that not many people know about the app, which would be entirely true. In the end I'll always rely on written impressions over a number from 1-5.
But in the app store you have to buy the app first. So if you REALLY want to troll there its going to cost you. Here anyone can just go on a one star rating barrage. Not all people are like you Midian and they just look at the stars and move on. Edit for additional thought: If I was a dev right now I would post my information as some do without the appinfo - the description, the link and the screenshots are all we need. Then they won't be subject to the potential of getting rated by a vindictive forum user.
Well that's just their loss I'm afraid No one else is to blame if people are too stupid to do their own research on a game. Most people know the worth of the hidden gems, and that the popular stuff is often total crap, if other people can't realize that simple fact then they're just gonna have to miss out. Still, overall it seems to be working: Minigore - 4 stars Labyrinth 2 - 5 stars Canabalt - 3.5 stars iBlast Moki - 4.5 stars Inotia 2 - 4 stars Spider - 5 stars It's no secret that those are some of the most popular games on the forum at the moment, and they're at the top of the list. Makes sense to me. Edit: plus people are always gonna be making those "best of" topics, so the lesser-known stuff gets it's rep eventually YouTube has a few hundred thousand trolls too, but the good videos still get their 5-star ratings. I think the best thing to do is just wait and see how many trolls we actually have, it might not be that many. Edit #2: I wonder... do banned members get their votes removed? If not could it be integrated in future?
banned member's votes are removed. and we can even selectively disallow users to vote without outright banning them. arn
Still doesn't seem to show up I rated Hook Champ like 5 days ago and it is still not there EDIT It works in Firefox but not Internet Explorer, weird
