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No rate for rate. Please. Sticky

A topic by HelperWesley created 3 days ago Views: 67 Replies: 3
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Jam Host(+2)

I've seen rate for rate spamming ruin the scoring of jams in the past, and I'd like to see a fair and honest jam here.

It's alright to ask someone to play your game if you've played, rated, and gave feedback to their game. But blanket "rate for rate" callouts can really mess with ratings as people try to collect as many ratings as they can without playing/having their own game played.

If I find people posting blanket "rate for rate" posts here, they will be removed. If I find too much of that happening, the community tab will be removed entirely.

Submitted

So can i ask for play for play?

Jam Host (1 edit)

As long as it's not an agreed upon thing before hand, and you actually play their game, there's no harm in asking them to check out yours afterwards. 馃憤

The issue is that people would use the community tab to collect dozens of rating agreements with people, and sometimes just spam all 5 stars without actually playing the game, which completely ruins ratings.馃槄

Submitted

yeah, I agree. That just ruins it and makes it luck if you win or not.