Well, I feel like I need to explain myself (for my own sake). I'm currently rating games that people submit to me in a thread. I saw this as a necessary evil beacause before that I hade 3 reviews. T H R E E. I saw this as the only viable way to get rates when not being famous or particullarly lucky. Btw I give people feedback, these are not empty ratings. Also I saw a guy that made about 5 r4r threads at the same time. The same guy also submited his game to 8 different jams. Also the game is Android only so I doubt many people played it, yet he still recieves ratings. Also the "most rated" sort option allows to snowball for the more popular games and leaves other creators with no way to get anyone to play the game. Something needs to get changed. Idk what but something is wrong, I can feel it. Cheers :)
Don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with rate4rate. We are only talking about people that abuse this mentality and how one should put them in their place. I strongly believe that a single massage from a mod calling them out would make them stop instantly and if not there is always the ban hammer looming overhead.
We like the illusion of justice to be kept.
On the change you're asking for: mods. What are they doing? To whomst one shall address a letter of electronic format concerning such regards? I don't want to press "report submission", since the game by itself is fine and this feature is there to protect others from viruses and inappropriate content. I don't want to press "report massage", since that would require going thru long timelines and would result in you getting investigated for trying to cancel a fellow creator. I would like a button like "spammer" or "report unsportsmanlike behavior" with a dedicated mod investigating. Currently I only see thedutchmagicarp doing stuff here (removing unplayable entries a day ago) and the others are probably on discord idk.
The only way to report spam is to click report post>spam. A sticky post from someone high up would probably do the job. Especially when you let people know that they can be flung out of the windows when behaving a certain way. Also are the same peoblems present on GMTK Jam? And if not, why do you think that is?