{"author_name":"Martoon","cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"September 7, 2010 4:40 pm","epoch":1283895600,"text":"Thanks for putting this together. I also noticed the trolling with a solid row of 1s for my entry and some others.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"September 7, 2010 5:37 pm","epoch":1283899020,"text":"I think it’s best to just count the votes as they are cast. Maybe the row of ones was someone being a jerk, but it’s also quite possible it was what they thought the game should get. I don’t think there’s a good way to distinguish between the two.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"bluescrn","time":"September 8, 2010 12:53 am","epoch":1283925180,"text":"Or the alternative, make the voting more open, actually show name, so we can see who’s being overly harsh (or overly generous) – then we can maybe pester them for some more in-depth feedback if they havew genuine constructive criticism to make?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"September 8, 2010 6:10 am","epoch":1283944200,"text":"Side note: IIRC the voting calculation discards the highest and lowest scores to help with the fairness. Phil\/Pov, please chime in if that is wrong! I could swear we were doing that though.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"September 8, 2010 9:38 am","epoch":1283956680,"text":"@mrfun: Yes, apparently it’s supposed to do that, but it’s not. I checked the numbers on my game and it seems like nothing was removed.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"September 10, 2010 11:05 am","epoch":1284134700,"text":"I voted all ones for one of those games, and I don\u2019t think my vote was particularly unfair. In fact it reflected the general consensus. Nobody gave it above 2 in any category, except one person voted 3 for audio.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"shockedfrog","time":"September 10, 2010 1:39 pm","epoch":1284143940,"text":"In that particular case (MetroDriver’s game, to save others the hassle of looking) it was deserved – the game didn’t seem to have anything to do with the theme and looking at it closer I think it might have been intended as a somewhat subtle joke entry. I don’t think anyone’s suggesting removing the ability to give all 1s where appropriate. The issue is that there are some people who are doing it for other reasons, people who clearly haven’t taken the time to judge a game fairly. Anyone with common sense can take a quick look at Martoon’s game and say that, even if they don’t particularly like it as a whole, it has a number of things going for it and no reasonable judge would give it all 1s. The only explanations I can come up for those scores in this case are (in no particular order):","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1283886480,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"69206","p_author":"Martoon","p_authorkey":"2355","p_urlkey":"105009","p_title":"Some voting stats\u2026","p_cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1283886480","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"7","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"2355","us_name":"Martoon","us_username":"martoon","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"

After getting slammed with a couple of troll rating votes (people who rated an entry with 1s across the board, while all other votes had decent ratings), I was curious about how much this was happening overall in the voting.<\/p>\n

I ran some numbers, and put a report here:\u00a0http:\/\/spampudding.com\/troll.txt<\/a><\/p>\n

The format is username and how many troll rating lines they received (1 or 2), followed by their average ratings in each category, followed by what their average ratings\u00a0would<\/em> have been without the troll votes.<\/p>\n

These five entries were hit the hardest, each losing a quarter of a point or more in at least one category due to troll votes: http:\/\/spampudding.com\/trolltop.txt<\/a><\/p>\n

Assuming all votes were logged, I’m wondering if maybe the admins could go through the database and see if it was the same couple people making these votes.<\/p>","time":"September 7th, 2010 2:08 pm","title":"Some voting stats\u2026"}