{"author_link":"\/users\/paulhocker","author_name":"paulhocker","author_uid":"paulhocker","comments":[],"epoch":1536470319,"event":"LD42","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":119503,"likes":14,"metadata":{"p_key":"122058","p_author":"paulhocker","p_authorkey":"1005112","p_urlkey":"338093","p_title":"Confusion on Scoring","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD42","p_time":"1536470319","p_likes":"14","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1005112","us_name":"paulhocker","us_username":"paulhocker","event_start":"1533859200","event_key":"73","event_name":"LD 42"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD42","removed_author":false},"_superparent":97793,"_trust":12,"author":5112,"body":"At the risk of sounding like I am complaining. I am seeing a pattern with a number of games where they had a very low  number of ratings (under 30), yet they scored in the top 20% for many of their categories, and thus ended up with a higher overall score. It seems like some of us who have more people play (over 60) had a lower mean score, and thus were rated lower. \n\nAgain, not trying to complain but it seem like there is a penalty for advertising and getting more people to rate your game. \n\nMaybe I am missing something in how it is scored? Is there a post that explains it?\n\nThanks all.\n","comments":23,"comments-timestamp":"2020-10-29T01:08:30Z","created":"2018-09-09T05:13:46Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":119503,"love":14,"love-timestamp":"2020-10-29T01:05:16Z","meta":[],"modified":"2020-10-29T01:08:30Z","name":"Confusion on Scoring","node-timestamp":"2018-09-09T05:18:39Z","parent":101043,"parents":[1,5,9,97793,101043],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/space-escape-4\/confusion-on-scoring","published":"2018-09-09T05:18:39Z","scope":"public","slug":"confusion-on-scoring","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":358181},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"119503","n_urlkey":"338093","n_parent":"101043","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/space-escape-4\/confusion-on-scoring","n_slug":"confusion-on-scoring","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"5112","n_created":"1536470026","n_modified":"1603933710","n_version":"358181","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/space-escape-4\/confusion-on-scoring","text":"At the risk of sounding like I am complaining. I am seeing a pattern with a number of games where they had a very low  number of ratings (under 30), yet they scored in the top 20% for many of their categories, and thus ended up with a higher overall score. It seems like some of us who have more people play (over 60) had a lower mean score, and thus were rated lower. \n\nAgain, not trying to complain but it seem like there is a penalty for advertising and getting more people to rate your game. \n\nMaybe I am missing something in how it is scored? Is there a post that explains it?\n\nThanks all.\n","title":"Confusion on Scoring","wayback_source":[]}