Montana's Message To The Community

[Jay520]

Barozi said:

RolStoppable said:

MontanaHatchet said:

RolStoppable: This is sadly true to an extent but I'd like to work towards the point where threads which foster good discussion can reach 100+ posts with ease.

That's quite a lofty goal. Anyway, the main problem is really two-fold:

1) Sales discussions are limited by the site taking more and more tools and data away from the community. There isn't much of a motivation to start a thread about a specific topic, because compiling the data (if it's even available) is too often too much of a hassle.

2) Members of this site don't seem to play video games and if they do, they don't want to talk about it. At least that's the impression I get from yo_john and TADS's ranking game threads. Sometimes they have trouble to get 15 scores which really isn't much considering that we have a couple hundred active members.

Discussions about hype seem to be more popular than playing the actual games. This also leads to the phenomenon that the next year is always the best ever, because all the hype is still intact.

I loved the idea and participated lots when it started, but constantly seeing KylieDog handing out low scores to basically every game out there drove me nuts. He wasn't the only user who did such a thing though, however he was the most persistent one.

It's not like Kyliedog's actions are ruining the threads' credibility. As long as he gives his opinion for every game, then his low votes will serve as a constant and no one game's score will be more affected than another. Now, if he gave extremely low votes to only a few games, then we would have a problem, but since he does it quite often, I think it's fair.

His persistence is actually what makes his votes unharming. With his method, every game is affected. Their order stays the same, but the scale drops a bit. It's the inconsistent users' votes who cause the most harm. They're lowering certain games and leaving others unaffected.

The actual scores of the games are bit lower than what most would score them, but the relative positioning of the games are unnaffected for the most part. And that's all that matters, right? The score a game gets is only used to compare it's position with other games.