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but that I was griefed once.
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You were ? Or did someone not know that clicking on a star rating then off again leads to an actual zero star vote.
Dont assume malice, when ignorance works.
@Catwhoorg "Rule of Three - Finale" Arc# 1984
@Mr Falkland Islands"A Nation Goes Rogue" Arc# 2369 "Toasters and Pop Tarts" Arc#116617
It may have been a legitimate "I hate your arc" zero-star vote, or a mistaken "I mostly hate your arc" zero-star vote that was intended to be a 1-star vote, or their pet cat, or Freemasons, sunspot activity, rockin' pneumonia or the boogie-woogie flu. Whatever the reason, I think it would be helpful for players to be able to see that that vote was an outlier.
Arc 55669 - Tales of the PPD: One Hell of a Deal (video trailer)
Arc 64511 - The Wrecking Ball
Arc 1745 - The Trouble With Trimbles
Arc 302901 - HappyCorpse
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There seems to be a fair amount of dissatisfaction with the ratings systems as it stands, in large part because it can be easily griefed. Zero-star ratings do an inordinate amount of damage and can instantly banish well-regarded arcs to statistical invisibility.
The first arc in my sig currently has 13 plays and is rated at 4 stars. Due to ticket awards and/or actually being on line, I know exactly how the ratings break down for this arc. It has:
<ul type="square">[*]9 5-star votes[*]2 4-star votes[*]1 Zero-star vote[*]1 abstention (no vote)[/list]Based on this information, I've come to the conclusion that most people really like it, but that I was griefed once. If players could see the distribution of votes, they could see what most people think about an arc and draw their own conclusions accordingly. The only thing this wouldn't address is being banished to page 214 by a zero-star vote, but at least if anyone found you again, they could see for themselves what probably happened.
For those of you who buy computer parts online, Newegg uses a similar system (X eggs out of 5, with a breakdown of votes), and it is easy to determine whether a three-egg part is REALLY a three-egg part, or if it's a 5-egg part whose overall rating was dragged down by a one or two dissatisfied people.
Thoughts?
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How do you figure how many of which you got?
I currently have a bit over 2,000 MA tickets from people playing my MArc. I have a 4 star overall rating and it says that 118 people have now played. Less than 35-40% of my players have left comments, though.
The only other information I have is that the "Master Builder" badge tells me that over 100 people have played and that I have average of at least 4.0.
But this is the second time that I've heard that its easy to determine what the individual votes have been based on this information ... but I haven't heard specifics, and would appreciate the formula.
Thanks.
In my case, the small number of plays makes it easy. You get 5 tickets per star from everyone who rates you, so if I had 170 tickets and 12 plays yesterday and have 195 tickets and 13 plays today, then 1 person played my arc and rated it 5 stars. Zero-star votes and abstentions both yield no tickets, so you'll have to do the math to see whether or not your average was affected. There number of comments tends to be low whether the ratings are good or bad.
Arc 55669 - Tales of the PPD: One Hell of a Deal (video trailer)
Arc 64511 - The Wrecking Ball
Arc 1745 - The Trouble With Trimbles
Arc 302901 - HappyCorpse
Just for accuracy, abstention, 0, 1 , and 2 all yield zero tickets.
There seems to be a fair amount of dissatisfaction with the ratings systems as it stands, in large part because it can be easily griefed. Zero-star ratings do an inordinate amount of damage and can instantly banish well-regarded arcs to statistical invisibility.
The first arc in my sig currently has 13 plays and is rated at 4 stars. Due to ticket awards and/or actually being on line, I know exactly how the ratings break down for this arc. It has:
<ul type="square">[*]9 5-star votes[*]2 4-star votes[*]1 Zero-star vote[*]1 abstention (no vote)[/list]Based on this information, I've come to the conclusion that most people really like it, but that I was griefed once. If players could see the distribution of votes, they could see what most people think about an arc and draw their own conclusions accordingly. The only thing this wouldn't address is being banished to page 214 by a zero-star vote, but at least if anyone found you again, they could see for themselves what probably happened.
For those of you who buy computer parts online, Newegg uses a similar system (X eggs out of 5, with a breakdown of votes), and it is easy to determine whether a three-egg part is REALLY a three-egg part, or if it's a 5-egg part whose overall rating was dragged down by a one or two dissatisfied people.
Thoughts?
Arc 55669 - Tales of the PPD: One Hell of a Deal (video trailer)
Arc 64511 - The Wrecking Ball
Arc 1745 - The Trouble With Trimbles
Arc 302901 - HappyCorpse