Wicked! long time ;)
Hi Sophie!

Good idea, nunes, I'm gonna vote for it.

This is a great idea, total support from me. I am also familiar to Yahoo and their system works well.

"Over a year ago there was a pair who bad mouthed each other wherever they went. They followed each other, saying "so and so cheats!" or "so and so doesn't respect flags" etc." - Wicked

rnd and what's his name (I really don't remember anymore), right?

this has been suggested before (ebay style, i believe, heh). seems that the majority of people like the idea.

its just there are a couple of ways to abuse it (see previous posts). if you IP-limit it, then people might be able to proxy around the wall. if you only allow one vote per account, then people have 20 alternate accounts.

but really, i doubt it will happen very often that someone is so pissed that they will 1) create 20 email accounts, 2) create 20 kdice alt accounts off of these 20 email accts, and 3) proxy in 20 times, all just to make someones ratings go down. if that really were to happen, it would be quite obvious, and a moderator could correct the abuse.

in conclusion, integral still needs mustard on his turkey sandwich. hollandaise wont do.

Welcome to kdice!

I think rating systems wouldn't be smart, this game is already enough of a social popularity contest at the higher levels, and putting a popularity rating next to each player would just make it worse.

I would forsee people trading truces for votes, having alliances who vote up their own group and vote down competing groups, people getting bent out of shape for whatever reason and voting down simply because they're angry, etc.

I don't think a competitive game mixes well with social popularity ratings.

You may be right ally.

I think that the IP blocking and the unique vote suggestions greatly enhance the idea. If they are put to operation, the benefits of having an instant behaviour assessment tool far exceeds the threats of abuse (which would still be possible, but would demand an amount of work that few jerks would be willing to do -- even for internet "jerkness" standards).

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@ PreGameAlly -- I see what you mean, but I'm afraid you got it backwards. People won't (in my opinion) use the balance score to choose the coolest player between, let's say, one who has +15 and another one who has +5 (you can be sure that you'll have fun playing either one of them). Quite the contrary: the balance should be useful to help you AVOID certain players that could possibly annoy you. Say you enter a table and see that an hypothetical player has a -20 balance: you will at the very least want to access nunes' (his hypothetical name, for clarification purposes) profile to check his reviews before sitting in.

Furthermore, I don't think it would be wise to trade truces or positions for thumbs up, since it would not be possible to track evaluations. Doing that would be like a politician trying to pay a citizen that will vote secretly. Besides that, the player could change his evaluation anytime in the future, which makes the trade useless.

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Well, this is getting long. I'm aware that the system is not perfect, but it could have a positive effect on the k-community idea. Ultimately this is a social game, thus expected to have its own social flaws; all we can do is try to make the best of it.

By the way, here is the pool's address:

http://www.kdice.com/ideas/ideas/44761027

Whoever votes for it gets a thumb up from me ;c)

You should put these comments on your idea post. It will bring it back up to the top so more people will see it and vote on it.

You know... There's a side of me that says, if you piss someone off to such an extent that they are willing to go out and make multiple accounts just to hose your rep... Well... You probably deserve it.

Probably.

Maybe.