Comments on: Metacritic to disallow voting on games pre-launch

By: airdom

airdom — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:14:26 +0000

maybe they should just DISABLE user scores permanently on metacritic. tha would solve the problem in a flash. no more douches screwing up everything

By: Morrius

Morrius — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:41:04 +0000

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?

By: Esha

Esha — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:39:25 +0000

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.

By: Tonka

Tonka — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:46:23 +0000

That would leave the “professional” score empty.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:14:40 +0000

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’.

By: morriss

morriss — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:27:35 +0000

Oh. That’ll stop everyone giving games 1/10 post release then.