So anyone can tell you at this stage, a player easily finds more of an urge to downvote a game rather than upvote a game.
This is because a player who likes a game will probably favorite it rather than upvote it.
Work at a Pizza Place has x12.3 favorites in comparison to upvotes.
Favoriting a game does not require an email to be verified first, and it does something worth while for the person who favorited the game, they can find the game in their favorites to play later.
I believe that upvoting a game should be linked to favoring a game, and that all users (even ones with unverified emails) can vote on games 1 month after their account is created.
You may ask why I think all user should be allowed to vote.
Well the current system in place to stop people botting upvotes on games is to make them confirm an email with their account first. Does this work? No. Time and time again we see several games per day making up to top rated using botted upvotes.
So many members who haven’t verified their accounts are probably young users, a large part of the audience of ROBLOX and their votes mean a lot, because they will upvote games that others using the site would also find fun to play.
But the current system silences the opinions of this group and we’re all losing out on it because of this.
Agree! Games on Roblox have a horrible ratio of thumbs up to thumbs down. Making thumbs’d up games go to a “liked sort”, kind of replicating what favorites does, would provide an incentive for players to thumbs up games.
Work at a Pizza Place is an old game, so it started out with a ton more favorites than likes anyway. But look at games created after the thumbs up button was introduced. For example, look at TMM or MM The Mad Murderer Classic - Roblox Murder Mystery 2 - Roblox
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Work at a Pizza Place is an old game, so it started out with a ton more favorites than likes anyway. But look at games created after the thumbs up button was introduced. For example, look at TMM or MM The Mad Murderer Classic - Roblox Murder Mystery 2 - Roblox [/quote]
I agree. However, with your example: I’m pretty sure that game was super popular way back in the day before the rating system ever existed, resulting in a large sum of favorites that wouldn’t fit into this. I have no idea how many favorites it’s gotten since the rating system though, so I could be wrong.
Edit: Looks like someone already posted something about this. I need to learn how to read first.
I’ve actually favorited a game and downvoted it at the same time before (e.g. I enjoy playing it, but it has serious technical and/or design issues). I’ve also intentionally upvoted without favoriting and vice-versa.
I would find it to be a pain to have a game favorited for me when I upvote, or vice-versa.
[quote] What about that stupid thing about how people can get their games to the “top rated” section by making 50+ accounts and up voting the game…
That’s why it requires an email, I believe [/quote]
It’s not stopping it at all.
Putting it onto a 1-month waiting period would decrease the amount of bots.
Right now people can get instant access to voting right after verifying their email.
