{"author_name":"shockedfrog","cat":"LD #24","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"September 18, 2012 10:12 am","epoch":1347981120,"text":"I guess it’s because those people got less than the minimum amount of votes (I think 12).","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"September 18, 2012 12:42 pm","epoch":1347990120,"text":"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!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1347977700,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"51435","p_author":"shockedfrog","p_authorkey":"1078","p_urlkey":"87128","p_title":"Ratinglessness","p_cat":"LD #24","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1347977700","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1078","us_name":"shockedfrog","us_username":"shockedfrog","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

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.<\/p>","time":"September 18th, 2012 9:15 am","title":"Ratinglessness"}