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In an interview with 1UP, Metacritic games editor Mark Doyle has confirmed that user voting on games scores before they ship is to be banned from the site.
Doyle also confirmed that Metacritic’s registration process is to be bumped up so users will be forced to provide more information than just an email address.
“Even before the enhanced registration portion, we’re going to disallow voting on games before release,” he said.
The move comes after user scores for console exclusives such as LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2 and Gears of War 2 were sabotaged by platform fanboys.
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morriss said:
Oh. That’ll stop everyone giving games 1/10 post release then.
Blerk said:
Well, duh. Quite why they allowed it in the first place, I have no idea.
They should have some metric in there which analyses each individual’s votes and discards their entire account if it transpires that they’re a ‘fucking idiot’.
Tonka said:
That would leave the “professional” score empty.
Esha said:
That’d be far too easy to fake, Blerk. Just find some games to vote up to even out the karma.
My solution would be to force anyone who’s voting to write a 1,000+ word review, and to use heuristics to make sure they aren’t writing nonsense of using a variant of Lorem Ipsum. And provide a way for people to report reviews, so that a moderator can be informed of bogus reviews and check them out to make sure they’re valid.
Or at least, provide two scores: One that only counts the scores of those who’ve written reviews under the system explained above, and a score that averages scores from everyone, including those who haven’t wrote such reviews. I think the difference in score overall would be quite enlightening.
Morrius said:
Can’t they just have two seperate scores, one for greasy fanboy types to desecrate, and the other for actual review sites and blogs, which is moderated and has a vetting process?
airdom said:
maybe they should just DISABLE user scores permanently on metacritic. tha would solve the problem in a flash. no more douches screwing up everything