"Top Favorite" Sort Shouldn't Show Games With More Favorites Than Plays

[TheNexusAvenger (Nexus)]

This is the current “Top Favorite” game on Roblox:

As of right now, there is a problem with bots favoriting games. There is not a single game on the sort right now that hasn’t been botted, and some of them don’t even have a single rating. Right now, the top game has about 56 times more favorites than players, and almost 20,000 times more favorites than likes.
For a bit of context, David Bazooka (my top meme game) 1 favorite for every 20 plays, and Jailbreak has 1 favorite for every 180 plays. There is no reason a game that has enough favorites to be on this sort would have more favorites than plays.

Original idea for thread from TheAmazeman: https://twitter.com/TheAmazemanRBLX/status/903507473495015424

[TheAmazeman]

The problem is two-fold as I can see.

These botted favorites affect the standing on all of the Top Favorited sorts

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They also affect the search return algorithm.

[Maxx_J]

Something definitely needs to be done about this. I hope something gets done soon.

@SummerEquinox

This seems like a logical thing that should have been implemented in the first place.

I agree

[SummerEquinox]

This seems like a logical thing that should have been implemented in the first place.

[TheAmazeman]

The extent to this problem is the Top Favorited sort is worthless to games that would actually be dominating it without the botted favorites. It’s insane

[cinderwth (cinder)]

support, it’s getting out of hand w/ the favourite botters.

[ConvexHero]

A selected game could be botted in this manner to remove it from the top-favorite sort. It would get rid of botted games, but would also create an attack against other games.

[TheNexusAvenger (Nexus)]

This… is something I didn’t think of.
Ya, I think we would need a different approach than the OP suggests.