I can convert the thumbs into ratings, its just very hard to have an accurate top rated games list:
Heres the problem;
You have a game that gets 200 ratings, 5 negative and 195 positive (97.5%)
You have a second game that has 0 negative and 10 positive.. (100%)
With the old/current system, the game with 195 positive ratings would receive title of best game...
However, using a system such as 10/10, with the scores acculimated above, the game with 5 positive ratings would win ahead of the game with 195 as it has 100% positive (10/10) over 97.5% positive (9.75/10), which is a little unfair since it has so few votes.
Someway to combat this would be a minimum vote number before its ranked in there, but its still a little bit of a pain
Another problem is how to convert thumbs into ratings, one way is to average out the thumbs, eg.. if a game had 4 negative and 6 positive, it'd be 6/10 or 60% average, and then have 10 votes of a rating of 6/10, probably the best way to do it without loosing all the data
Idealy itd be best to start from scratch but I'd really not want to loose all the ratings we already have
Could you not just convert the top 100 games of each year or something? (or those with more than 50 votes)
it would save a lot of time, as those with less than 50 ratings haven't really had enough votes (unless all of them are positive, which I doubt)
This sounds like a much better system. The thumbs work fine, Club has a good point about it. The problem isn't the thumbs, but the insincerity of voting. Giving a reason for your vote is so much better.
It'd also be nice to make a cookie (or something) to say if they can comment or not. When they click download, then they can comment. When they comment they vote. People commenting without downloading is retarded. Only Admins should comment on "more info please". I can't think of any reason to comment without first downloading.
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