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Ratinglessness
It appears that a lot of games have not received scores in any category at all – at first I thought it was due to having 0 coolness, but I then noticed the same for a number of other games with a reasonable coolness %. Are more people rating N/A than usual, or is there another reason for this? Either way, it’s pretty disappointing that what seems like hundreds of games have not received a score at all. I think the ability to see individual ratings needs to be brought back – not necessarily in the old list format, which would be huge now due to the popularity of LD, potentially make voting less anonymous, and bring back the old all-1s/all-5s complaints, but perhaps following hamster_mk_4′s suggestion in the comments on the results post, which is to display the number of times each score from 1-5 was given in each category. Even if a game doesn’t get enough non-N/A ratings to be counted in the main list, they should at least be able to get some score feedback.
I guess it’s because those people got less than the minimum amount of votes (I think 12).
I did see some games with more than 12 votes that didn’t have scores, but some of those scores may have been N/As. It wasn’t made clear there was a minimum anywhere I noticed, though it does make sense to prevent situations where someone wins by only having 1 rating of 5 stars.
However, I think people should still be able to see their ratings regardless of whether they have enough to ‘qualify’ for the rankings.
I didn’t know there was a minimum. I haven’t seen anywhere that said there is a minimum in the 3 LDs that I have entered. There really should be some clear notice, I would hate to have my entry discounted because of lack of ratings. They should definitely be allowed to see their average scores and potential rank!