Re: Anyone on this list?

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:30:31AM -0600, Steve Baker wrote:
> 
>>But of those 926 games, 400 are 'unrated' - ie so bad that people didn't
>>even bother to rate them. only 218 got 4 or 5 stars on the rating system.
>>
> 
> Not necessarily.  How many times have I see anonymous comments posted to
> games that say 'grate game. 5 stars'
> 
> Well, since they didn't login (or might not even have an account to BEGIN
> with), they weren't actually able to SET how many stars it got, and thus,
> their comment provides no rating, in The Game Tome's eyes.

Well, that only affects the size of the statistical sample.

There were enough people with accounts and logged in and motivated
to respond to give all those stars to projects that DID get rated.


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