At 12/12/06 02:26 PM, milinko959 wrote:
I've been thinking about it, and I've thought of something that may boost activity in this club. I will probably be starting a ranking system for the club based on points. Here is what I have so far:
Seems a good idea. But are we gonna keep track of our own points? If one person is to do it all, it'd be a lot of work...
5 points for a review on a requested movie/game
definitely.
7 points for a review on a requested audio
understandable.
+1 point for putting "Review Request Club" at the bottom of a requested review
hmm... yeah. Fair enough. Can see the logic.
+3 points for writing a long review (10+ lines)
I don't think a 'long review' should be measured in lines. I mean, maybe 10 of my lines aren't worth someone else's 10 lines? (As I break up the points, using sometimes just a few chars/line).
I still like my own deinition of a 'good review': at least one positive remark, one suggestion/negative point/overall summary. Although I appreciate that can be done in mebbe even one line: gfx sucked, interesting name. Boring.
I suppose it's OK, but the lack of a measure of quality rankles a bit.
Some are concise. It's easy to be verbose, harder to ensure reviews are meaningful.
+5 points for wirting an in-depth review (breakdown of all score components..graphics, sound, etc.)
I don't personally consider explicit breakdown of all the score components really necessary or always beneficial.
graphics: I liked it slightly. 6.
style: I disliked it slightly. 4.
etc... means nothing.
Or even, being less of a pedantic fucker, to write:
graphics: clean. nice colours.
style: lacks personality
sound: poor compression
violence: some blood...
interactivity: Nothing beyond basic requirements.
humour: made me chuckle
It just seems pointless. I dunno, this just kinda seems like forcing a review-style upon folk. I suppose I can appreciate that in doing this, most reviewers would be adding a few thoughts to most of their reviews. But most ratings are self-explanatory. I think it should be encouraged for folk to critique stuff such as level-design, plot and game mechanics that aren't listed as numbers.
3 points for each non-spam (I determine) post
I'd definitely be in disagreement with this. This isn't meant to be a social club - it's the review request club. If the aim of the club is about the requesting and the reviewing, I don't see why we should get credit for posting.
Maybe 3 points a week if you post once that week to 'check-in', or something along those lines?
Anything beyond that would really be asking for trouble.
Or, if we're counting our own score, maybe 5-10 points for tallying our own score correctly (maybe with a break-down)? Maybe doing it once a week or whatever? It'd help keep this at the top of the C&C board, which I think is the only advantage of encouraging random posts, whilst also helping this possibly system to work and encourage participation and interest from all.
3 points for requesting reviews (must have been submitted within time of last update)
I really would disagree with this. I mean, the principle isn't to ask us for reviews to pump up some stat. I'd like to think that the folk requesting reviews simply want more feedback on how to improve, or to simply know what folk think of their work.
This'd obviously benefit me next year, as I'm preparing for a massive stream of submissions. But seriously, it just seems to me like folk should simply continue to request reviews for stuff they want feedback on. Lack of requests isn't a very real problem with this club.
It's the lack of reviews that is.
5 points for referring a new member (must mention you in first post)
How do you define a new member? If it's someone that reviews, and inserts a ~~Review Request Club~~ tag, then that's fair enough, I suppose...
5 points for reviewing all requests for that week
Makes sense.
Along with a ranking system derived from these points, I will also implement top reviewer, poster, etc for each week.
Might be interesting.
If anyone has anything they'd like to add please do say. If everything goes as planned, the contest will start next sunday!
Well, some other conditions need to be added. Are we only crediting for reviews of requests that week? Can we gain points for reviews of old requests, or of requesters' other submissions? To get the +5 for 'all that week', do we have a time limit?
Despite my concerns though, I'm totally in favour of this idea, generally speaking.
Should help appeal to folk's competitive spirit.