Votes for yourself?

[LRH]

I was just looking through some of my games in the DB, and noticed the little 'click here to vote' link. For kicks, I tried clicking it and expected it to bring me to some kind of "Sorry, you can't vote for your own game" page. Instead...it brought me to the votes page. I didn't click through, but are we really allowed to vote on our own games? If so, it seems silly, since the creator often times will not be so objective.

[Calin Leafshade]

meh its only 1 vote.. its not going to make a big difference really.

what you need to do is make loads of accounts so you can vote your game up and make it win some AGS awards... not that I would do that or anything...

[Babar]

I don't think you need multiple accounts. Does it store which user voted or something?

[Calin Leafshade]

I didnt need the multiple accounts?

pfft that couldve saved me a few hours.

[TerranRich]

It wouldn't be that much work to store the user IDs of those who voted on any particular game, and prevent vote-spam.

[ddq]

Really? I thought it did. I remember forgetting that I already voted for a game and being told so when I attempted a second rating. Hang on, I'll try it again...

Yep, in big, red text: "Sorry, you've already voted for this game," but only after I'd attempted to submit it. I could be misunderstanding the topic of discussion, though. We are talking about the user ratings for DB games, right?

[evenwolf]

Currently is this an issue?   Are games getting high scores unwarranted?  So far the high score games I've downloaded have been pretty decent quality.

[LimpingFish]

We've had some rare instances of people artificially inflating their game's vote count or clicking the download link a few hundred times to get their game on the weekly "Most Popular..." list. The IP address of each vote/download is recorded by default, so this kind of behaviour is usually easy to spot.

Those found guilty are-...well, I've said too much. ¬¬

[Dualnames]

I've downloaded my games mostly to check the working links, but gee if a game is bad, popularity will make it worse.

[LRH]

Currently is this an issue?   Are games getting high scores unwarranted?  So far the high score games I've downloaded have been pretty decent quality.

Nah, doesn't really seem to be an issue at all. I was really more curious of what the forum goers thought than anything else.

[Radiant]

Nah, doesn't really seem to be an issue at all. I was really more curious of what the forum goers thought than anything else.

This is, however, hilarious when it comes to Big Issue Votes on the internet, like when a big company wants the 'net at large to vote on their new logo, or slogan, or song. All too frequently they forget to ward against vote stacking or sockpuppetry, leading to something utterly ridiculous being voted the winner.

I think there was a British municipality somewhere that wanted a new flag, so some jokester designed something like a polka-dotted one with a "horns" symbol, got his forum friends to vote, and won...

[evenwolf]

Radiant:  My roommate was involved in an online voting scandal recently.   He entered a contest where Oprah would give him his own show and 4chan generated millions of fake votes for him.  But Oprah deleted alot of his actual votes too.     Just google "zach anner".  It got crazy amounts of press.

[Ryan Timothy B]

Your roommate is that dude in the wheelchair with what looks like cerebral palsy?

[Dualnames]

Radiant:  My roommate was involved in an online voting scandal recently.   He entered a contest where Oprah would give him his own show and 4chan generated millions of fake votes for him.  But Oprah deleted alot of his actual votes too.     Just google "zach anner".  It got crazy amounts of press.

With all the respect to handicapped people, this is BALLS.

[Tuomas]

A local fabric here announced a t-shirt contest, ans surprise surprise, 4chan made sure the pedobear t-shirt won the whole thing. Then later on someone's mom informed them where the bear came from and they ever printed those shirts