Uh… Yeah. I don’t really get this formula. Seems like a rather simple subtraction, but still…I’m not sure, if I’m *supposed* to play and rate as many games as possible, or if I rather aim to have more votes on my game than I vote others… There’s something in the legend about a “loser” badge, if you are trying to reach a high coolness rating ( = rate a lot of games by him/herself?) Is “coolness” a bad thing? I mean I played a lot of games, voted approximately for 20 others (as suggested by the LD website) and now, I’m not really sure… am I supposed to vote or not?

As I understood it so far, you shouldn’t vote for others too much, if you don’t have many votes on your own submission. Reason: Submitting 1 star on every other game to downvote these? I would never ever do that, it’s just that while I love playing a lot of games and submitting comments and/or ratings, I don’t want to “hurt” my own ranking, but I don’t want to not rate others at all, since they need a certain count of votes in order to even be taken into account anyway.

I know that there’s another post about this topic, but I still don’t understand. IF the coolness thing is good, then a low default score would make sense, but then what is that “L” thing all about? And if coolness is a bad thing, why would people vote at all?

Thanks in advance!