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![]() I just noticed that 500 out of 561 games reviewed on Abandonia appear to have a public rating of 3, which I find a bit odd. Opinions can't possibly be that balanced on 84 percent of the games, or am I just missing something very obvious? But if most games really do end up being publically rated at 3, the public rating isn't really all that informative any more, is it?
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![]() I think this has to do with the limitations of the rating systems. It might be so that one game gets a 2.6 and another gets a 3.4, but both would be rated as a 3.
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![]() Probably five grades aren't enough... maybe 10...
Anyway this is a demonstration of the laws of probability! Looking at all the games ratings, is the probability distribution a Gauss curve? |
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![]() it prob has alot to do with idiots that rate extreme... you like the game you give it a 5... you dont like the game you give it a 1...pff
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![]() Yes, there's probably some Gauss thingy in there.
I don't think having ten different grades would solve the issue, though; even the five we currently have aren't really all used: 1 isn't used at all at the moment (which makes sense, of course, because we don't really want to add bad games, do we?) and 2 is only used about five or six times (two or three of those are in public ratings). |
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![]() hmm ok ill shut up
**EDIT** or wait... you mean as a rating in the whole right? so no im right... gauss whatever my behind people just rate wrong. **EDIT AGAIN** since when is BU** a bad word? why did it change it to behind? thats wrong. ive never heard of a 5 year old get in trouble because he said it. |
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![]() Funny, isn't it? This is the only place where you can be the behind of a joke.
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![]() If i may state my opinion, i think it is a question of "average". many people doesn' t like to give "maximum" rating on any game, even if they liked it a lot - i know that because i am one of these
so basicly, if someone rates game with a "4" and tought the game was pretty good, and someone that played the game and doesn' t think much of it rates it with "2", the average will became "3" (holly crap, i' m trying to explain that Gauss thing like if that was important Quote:
i also think that if the ratings were from "1" to "10", most games would be rated at "6" or "7" |
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![]() Well, the rating system would be left for Kosta to solve, but I think it would be a good idea to use the rating system we use on AR.
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![]() You could stick with 5 ratings but you don't have to use those pictures of numbers 1 to 5. Instead just have it written what the average is and take it 2 decimal places.
Could this be so hard to change to? |
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