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Mango Scribble304 days ago (3 edits) (+1)

I my experience, public reviews encourage dog piling and bias. When I uploaded my game on Newgrounds where reviews are public, there is a system where newly uploaded games and movies are "under judgement" where everything is hidden (ratings, reviews) until the game reached like 50 votes. My game passed with a decent rating (3/5) perhaps because people used their own personal judgement. But then right after a negative review shows up complaining about random things, suddenly a bunch more negative reviews started to pile in and as people  enter my game page, all they see are negative reviews so they too, left negative ratings until my game was reduced to 2.0 at 150 votes and almost got kicked off the platform.

Also no I'm not saying what game, not gonna let you guys come over and finish me off.

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Narushima304 days ago (1 edit) (+4)

As was already pointed out, itch does have a rating system already, and people can already leave negative comments on your game page.

I'm not asking for the creation of a new feature, just a clarification. The "Rate & Review" window should tell you specifically that your review will not show up publicly.

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Daring_Steel215 days ago(+1)

"Public reviews" don't do that. Humans being able to communicate is what does that.  If you want to stop cancel mobs, you have to either move to an alternate universe populated by more reasonable sophonts, or put in the heavy moderation work on your platform to prevent it from happening.  You can't do it by blocking one particular avenue of human communication and leaving all the rest.

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Narushima214 days ago

I don't even understand what you're trying to say. Do you want people to be completely unable to say anything about games?

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Daring_Steel214 days ago(+1)

No.  I want people to stop trying to solve problems that boil down to "eliminate all the bad things that can be done with human communication," because [a] that has literally never worked, [b] the only way to accomplish it would involve total human extinction, and [c] it's almost always a distraction from some real problem (in this case, forum moderation), which requires a significant but achievable level of work to accomplish.  Substituting an impossible problem for a possible one is just a cheap way to avoid actually doing any work, and I have zero respect for that kind of moral cowardice.  

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Narushima213 days ago

OK, that sounds... crazy. I'm not sure how you got to that point, but all I'm saying is that it should be made obvious that "reviews" are not made public, but sent to the publisher/dev as a private message.

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Daring_Steel213 days ago

I was responding to the guy (Mango Scribble) who said, and I quote, "public reviews encourage dog piling and bias."

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