{"author_link":"\/users\/gonutz","author_name":"gonutz","author_uid":"gonutz","comments":[],"epoch":1546072151,"event":"LD43","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":138050,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"127446","p_author":"gonutz","p_authorkey":"1004280","p_urlkey":"343568","p_title":"Please let me Rate Games","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD43","p_time":"1546072151","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1004280","us_name":"gonutz","us_username":"gonutz","event_start":"1543536000","event_key":"71","event_name":"LD 43"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD43","removed_author":false},"_superparent":120415,"_trust":5,"author":4280,"body":"**TL;DR let anyone rate games who has submitted a game in the past**\n\nI want to propse a change to the rating system. This LD I had no good idea for a game so I did not upload one. Still I was excited about the other games I had been watching grow over the weekend and like always, I saved their links for later (by the way, the list of people I follow seems to be ordered very randomly so simply following someone and looking up their games later does not work for me, room for improvement there as well).\n\nAfter the weekend I started looking at the games on my list and I played two of them and wrote a long and detailed comment, which to me is the most important part. Then I wanted to give my star ratings but it said that only people who submitted a game were able to do so.\n\nI understand that not everybody who creates an account should be able to rate a game, this would allow very easy cheating on the rating system. But how about this: **you can always rate games if you have submitted one in the past**?\n\nAs I said, to me the comments are the most important thing so this is no deal breaker. Still I would have loved to also rate the games, I was disappointed that I could not contribute to their 20 ratings limit because I know that this is a hurdle for many games. This took the wind out of my sails a little bit and I would have probably played more games if I could have rated them.\n\nMy proposed solution is to let all users who have ever submitted a game in the past rate games in the future. I feel that once you know how tough it is to make a game, you will take rating serioulsy and not abuse the system in any way, like people could if they just needed to create a new account to rate a game. A slight variation of this would be to only allow people to rate who not only submitted a game but also got their game rated with >= 20 ratings.","comments":7,"comments-timestamp":"2018-12-30T03:26:41Z","created":"2018-12-29T08:10:35Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":138050,"love":3,"love-timestamp":"2018-12-29T13:50:39Z","meta":[],"modified":"2018-12-30T03:26:41Z","name":"Please let me Rate Games","node-timestamp":"2018-12-29T08:29:11Z","parent":120781,"parents":[1,5,9,120415,120781],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/$120781\/please-let-me-rate-games","published":"2018-12-29T08:29:11Z","scope":"public","slug":"please-let-me-rate-games","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":415801},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"138050","n_urlkey":"343568","n_parent":"120781","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/$120781\/please-let-me-rate-games","n_slug":"please-let-me-rate-games","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"4280","n_created":"1546071035","n_modified":"1546140401","n_version":"415801","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/$120781\/please-let-me-rate-games","text":"**TL;DR let anyone rate games who has submitted a game in the past**\n\nI want to propse a change to the rating system. This LD I had no good idea for a game so I did not upload one. Still I was excited about the other games I had been watching grow over the weekend and like always, I saved their links for later (by the way, the list of people I follow seems to be ordered very randomly so simply following someone and looking up their games later does not work for me, room for improvement there as well).\n\nAfter the weekend I started looking at the games on my list and I played two of them and wrote a long and detailed comment, which to me is the most important part. Then I wanted to give my star ratings but it said that only people who submitted a game were able to do so.\n\nI understand that not everybody who creates an account should be able to rate a game, this would allow very easy cheating on the rating system. But how about this: **you can always rate games if you have submitted one in the past**?\n\nAs I said, to me the comments are the most important thing so this is no deal breaker. Still I would have loved to also rate the games, I was disappointed that I could not contribute to their 20 ratings limit because I know that this is a hurdle for many games. This took the wind out of my sails a little bit and I would have probably played more games if I could have rated them.\n\nMy proposed solution is to let all users who have ever submitted a game in the past rate games in the future. I feel that once you know how tough it is to make a game, you will take rating serioulsy and not abuse the system in any way, like people could if they just needed to create a new account to rate a game. A slight variation of this would be to only allow people to rate who not only submitted a game but also got their game rated with >= 20 ratings.","title":"Please let me Rate Games","wayback_source":[]}