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I agree with Skull on this one. A free-for-all scoring system doesn't work on Metacritic, why would it work on TDN? (Although I guess Metacritic's is techincally a review system, which isn't moderated at all/is moderated very little)
I don't necessarily see a problem with a file only having one review. Let's say Leprochaun writes a review giving a good dmod an 8.0, for example, and no one else writes another review in years? I think that's a sign that the score is pretty agreeable. If I see a score that I find too high/too low, I WILL write a review for that file. I think that works. There aren't many (if any) dmods here that currently have scores they clearly don't deserve.
Not having any reviews at all sucks, though. Write more reviews, people. With a simple scoring system, though, I think we'd just end with a lot of 9.9's and 0.0's, and as evidenced by Metacritic, that doesn't necessarily mold into a fair end score. With the current system, at least it's easy to influence the ratings by giving your own honest opinion - the same isn't true if you're fighting against a hundred out of spite/fake account 0.0's.
EDIT: Actually, you can just give a score on Metacritic, or give a score and write a review along it. First time I actually bothered to create an account and vote on anything in that cesspool... Obviously, I gave a 10, because anything else would just make my vote count for less. =)
I don't necessarily see a problem with a file only having one review. Let's say Leprochaun writes a review giving a good dmod an 8.0, for example, and no one else writes another review in years? I think that's a sign that the score is pretty agreeable. If I see a score that I find too high/too low, I WILL write a review for that file. I think that works. There aren't many (if any) dmods here that currently have scores they clearly don't deserve.
Not having any reviews at all sucks, though. Write more reviews, people. With a simple scoring system, though, I think we'd just end with a lot of 9.9's and 0.0's, and as evidenced by Metacritic, that doesn't necessarily mold into a fair end score. With the current system, at least it's easy to influence the ratings by giving your own honest opinion - the same isn't true if you're fighting against a hundred out of spite/fake account 0.0's.
EDIT: Actually, you can just give a score on Metacritic, or give a score and write a review along it. First time I actually bothered to create an account and vote on anything in that cesspool... Obviously, I gave a 10, because anything else would just make my vote count for less. =)
