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Weren't Leap of Faith and Why You Do This to Me disqualified on the stream? The former asks for payment or makes you watch ads. The latter has blatant vote manipulation; just look at the age of all the accounts that commented on it and the number of votes compared to the other games.

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Actually, now that I'm looking into it, looks like Leap of Faith and Changer both also have some brand new accounts talking about how amazing the game is...

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Here's an album showing what I'm talking about:

Itch.io alts https://imgur.com/a/M1p1pzR

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Having all your friends rate 5 stars is just as much cheating.

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i want to tell i made game + i have large friend community i shared in my school college family group they liked and i dont do this cheap activity + it is my first game i dont know about itch my friends told kindly dont claim without anything think knowing i am 13yrs old and from cheating i dont want to win money for me honesty matters. Thanks 

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+ my friend likes in stream there was screen resolution problem my friend observed that but they love my startup so they support thanks

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i have many friends community i shared on discord too then votes come then what's the problem if they like they rate if they dont they also commented you can see

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Let me do some checking.  These are the raw results I got from itch.io.

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It's a pretty common issue here on itch. Honestly when there's prizes of any sort the judging should be done by a trusted panel rather than relying on the rankings.

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I don't think the issue is the ratings. I think some of us are just confused because Asif disqualified some entries based on not following the theme, and based on that they seemed to be games already made but reskinned for this jam, based on that they charged for the game during ratings time, and one based on that there was no game available to play.

Changer was not one of the games that was disqualified by Asif so please give a 13-yo kid a break.

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Also, I think the ratings system is appropriate considering one of the goals of the jam is to "grow the Shacknews community." It would make sense (from the point of view of the people putting up the prize money) to have participants compete with each other by getting friends to sign up.