I think this is great feedback. I think the issue of people always choosing the best game is unavoidable though, since even if the counts aren’t there, the viewer could go and look at the pages and select the best looking ones. There’s always going to be some bias since we let people rate from a queue size of 5. I’ll think about updating the queue page though for future jams.
I wonder how many of the raters just rate everything but one game with 1 star.
There’s no way I can think of to truly block people cheating or trying to work around the system, but at least something like this can make it become more obvious. At the end we can look over the results to identify raters to disqualify.
It’s the same idea for both issues, we can’t 100% remove these types of issues but we can have systems in place to try to mitigate them and get closer to something that is fair.