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Hi, as someone participating in my first game jam, I want to point out a problem with the preferred platform function. Since the game jam in question revolves around written material for a tabletop roleplaying game, the majority of the entries don't really fall under any platform due to simply being written documents and artwork. Thus, if someone curious tries to see what the preferred platforms option does, they basically lock themselves away from rating most of the entries.

Someone in the community posts ran into this problem and in an effort to help them I tried replicating it and sure enough, there seems to be no way to reset the preferences as far as I can tell.

Also I notice above there's mention of a 25 entry limit that could be reached to enable rating submissions without the queue. That doesn't seem to be the case.

Now, I realise this thread seems to refer to a specific game jam as opposed to the rating queue in general so I understand if this is the wrong place to voice these concerns. That said, I would appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction.

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Since the game jam in question revolves around written material for a tabletop roleplaying game

I can definitely see the issues this might cause in a jam that is primarily non-platform specific content.

We’ve gone ahead added the option to go back from a platform to no preferred platform set.

Also I notice above there’s mention of a 25 entry limit that could be reached to enable rating submissions without the queue

This is a setting of the jam that is set by the jam host

Fair enough. Thank you very much for your quick action! I'm glad I reached out and I admire your efforts