Ahhh, that makes more sense; yes!
Sorry, I'm not very mathematically minded and I think my method would work better for a system where you can only vote for or against something - and not rank each item from 1 to 5. Honestly, I'm not sure Itch is really set-up for voting like this in smaller jams and I don't usually do ranked jams, so I'm in total confusion about this whole thing anyway...
I'll vote as you suggest then, giving more stars to projects I like - which sounds more fun too. Thanks for clearing things up!
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Happy to help! I don't mean to try and tell you how to vote, it's just that my brain also went down this path since voting is locked to other participants. So I just wanted to share the same thought process I had gone through and come to a conclusion with. 😁
Even personally liking statistics (especially to do with games like TTRPGs), it took me a bit of time to try and parse this style of voting and the impact of individual actions. 😅
I was worried about it being a single vote too! I ended up taking the jump to just vote since there were stars rather than a single "I like this best", so I was very hopeful. 😂
I think ultimately voting amongst contestants is to try and encourage us to encourage each other, rather than to determine who is "best" by popular vote. Which is a good way in hindsight, even though I was confused at first!