Did someone hack the voting?

[KruzeS]

DKII said:
Seriously why do you care so much? Anyone concerned with stupid fake scores on this site really needs to go get a life.

Read above.

I care, because I like this site, and it's joking material right now, which is a shame. Also the way the hole thing was handled, raises serious issues about the site's credibility. It's not as if there wasn't any warning that this was going to happen.

Finally, I've always wished there was a game IMDB, because user reviews and scores can be far more interesting than critics. But this has got to be positively the lamest attempt ever at it. Which again, is a shame - VGChartz deserved better than that.

VGChartz deserved better forum software, where the answer to "it doesn't work well on browser X" wasn't "well, that's all fine and dandy, but it's not a priority because of sales". If that's the priority, and it should be, don't waste time developing lame forum software, just integrate it with on of available alternatives like phpBB. Look at how long it took to get us a lame search feature; look at other forums; see the difference? The site also deserved better answers to problems like "the web page frequently finds it interesting to show historic data from 1911", rather than no answer or fix at all. And now this. We were asked what should be done to improve, and suggestions were simply ignored. We were told several times that the current system was just fine. Well, look at how fine it is.

It just makes the site look childish and totally unprofessional, which is a shame, because the data is apparently pretty good, and nowhere else to be seen. You have struck a potential gold mine here, don't waste it with feature creep.