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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2219 |
What's downvoting...
Quoting Shine
"LOVE TO THE NEGATIVE DOWNVOTERS..."
Means what exactly?
Just curious, what is a downvote in your opinion, Knight Rider?
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Excess ICC2021 4KB Intro
Feel free to lead (yet another) philosophical debate on the definition of downvoting here, but pretty please not in entry comments ffs
and behave...
*opens his umbrella for weather forecast tells me to expect shitstorm and heavy vote whining tears rains*
An example from some drama last summer: Voting a 2 on something with zero downloads (which means someone votes it lower than 10 without even downloading the file), now THAT's definetely downvoting in my book
PS: @the current release overly hard 5s are outweiged by overenthusiastic 10s pretty well currently imho |
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Mixer
Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 447 |
Fix the game, do not hate the players. After 20 years, the game still will not be fixed -> exploitation continues. |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2219 |
@Mixer, well... no one claimed the matter's new, see
downvoting
but better discuss here than some release comments developing kinda flame war like.
Personally, I think, "downgrading CSDB" by taking away any wannabe-(anti)social-media-stuff such as "voting" would lead to meaniningfully less unneccessary drama (and being top 5 voter might be enough to assume I'm qualified to say so, poor Joe, of course). And I also suggest anyone who might beg to differ to try(!) if [censored myself, for my suggested alternative's not legal everywhere, so let's say: other hobbies] might help, but that's of course only my individual opinion
PS: And I keep saying so since what-feels-like-1974
PPS: And if some users are just here for the drama, they are gonna find other places on the I-Net (where bitching is intended) ;) |
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Raistlin
Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 659 |
Voting generally is borked on CSDb IMO. I know it has some clever algorithms for trying to stop downvoting/upvoting… but, hell, it doesn’t seem to work at all.
Take the most recent intro release:
Excess ICC2021 4KB Intro
Quite a nice spread of votes. Averages to 7.6.. but CSDB’s system gives it 8.5? I can’t see why it’s skewed the average so far upward … not to diss the intro, I’m just using this one as an example, but there’re plenty of 10s and 5s - so it doesn’t feel like obvious up or down voting..? Unless teams are whipping their members to vote (eg. All Excessive give 10s, all Laxitives give 5s?).
It just feels to me like a simpler calculation would make more sense - and I’d love to see what that would do to all the charts.
That said, I kinda want votes and charts to disappear from CSDb - but if they did, would there be an alternative? People like to have an easy way to browse good games, demos, intros, without have to wade through “less good” stuff. |
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Six
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 293 |
Just switch off anon. Problem solved. Roaches hate light. Watch 'em scatter. |
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Raistlin
Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 659 |
Public voting has problems too… will you vote honestly about a good friend’s release if it sucks? |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3187 |
Quote: Public voting has problems too… will you vote honestly about a good friend’s release if it sucks?
I do, I don't care about anyone and my votes are public. |
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Hate Bush
Registered: Jul 2002
Posts: 462 |
Quote: Public voting has problems too… will you vote honestly about a good friend’s release if it sucks?
no. moreover, i wouldn't vote below 9 in 99,9% of cases deserving - it used to be 100% when my votes were public. even now, someone has to repeatedly, aggressively release shit (shit imho) to force me into voting 8 and lower. see, i don't want to hurt anyone, given that the scene CONSISTS of very touchy people, even if they pretend they don't care. i'm one of them ;) and that's understandable, feedback is all we have. |
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Adam
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 323 |
that colour cycling effect in the scroller is nice (and grg's sids always rule)
Quoting Hate Bushit used to be 100% when my votes were public
I set mine to private after I had certain people complaining to me, or about me, because I voted a certain way.
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2219 |
Quoting Hate Bush... wouldn't vote below 9 in 99,9% of cases deserving - it used to be 100% when my votes were public. ...
Well, that's for sure what ppl might see as "upvoting"
Plus if everybody does so, we'd have only super releases (judging from vote results) which might arise the question why vote at all if everything is 9.5-9.9. Sh.. stays sh.., however, no matter the figures.
Quote: i don't want to hurt anyone, given that the scene CONSISTS of very touchy people, even if they pretend they don't care. i'm one of them ;) ...
Hehe, at least you're self-reflected and honest enough to see and admit that, that makes you at least one step ahead :) |
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