Well, my game has reached twenty ratings. Honestly didn't expect that to happen when I started rating games this late into the voting period, but it did. Thanks to everyone who rated, and to @pov for helping out us super-late-bloomers by switching the default filter back to Smart.

And, now that I can safely say that I don't need more ratings, I have a PSA:
Please only rate games that do not yet have enough ratings to be ranked.

Certainly it's nice to have a couple extra ratings, as that lets you know that your ranking is more statistically legitimate. But rating games that are already ranked takes precious time away that could be spent getting more games to be ranked in the first place.

Games that are already ranked do not need your rating; your rating will at the very most change their score by 4/21, a value less than 0.19 -- and that's only if they have the minimum of twenty ratings, and you rank it at the opposite of its current score. Your influence only gets less and less as the number of ratings they already have goes up. Certainly this influence is not zero, as 0.19 can very well change a game's ranking, but it's far less influence than the influence you have in changing a game's ranking from "unranked."

In a similar effort to help get more games ranked, I've put the following message at the top of my game:
markdown **Hey -- I already have twenty ratings. Instead of rating this game, try rating [some other game](https://ldjam.com/games/smart/all) that doesn't yet have enough to be ranked. Thanks!**
and I encourage others who have been ranked to put similar messages at the top of their pages.

Finally, I would also like to request that if you do already have a ranking to not ask for more ratings. The reason I say this is because I have witnessed in the past few hours some games with a large number of ratings ask for more and get them, when the time spent on those ratings would be much more meaningful if spent rating games that have not yet been ranked. I make this request basically in the interest of the community, and to some extent in my own interest, as just a few hours ago I was also unranked.

Thank you. :slight_smile: