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redonihunter13 days ago(+2)

To anyone reading here, I strongly advise against up- or downrating games to promote or discourage content. You should only rate games you want to play. Ratings on Itch are mostly for the person rating them, as the reviews are not attached to the game for everyone to see.

If you start rating down lgbt ai pixel art games, the algorithm would think you are interested in lgbt ai pixel art games, but have just not found the right game and will recommend such games to you. After all, you constanly browse the ai-generated tags and the lgbt tags and the pixel art tag. It's obvious those are topics you are interested in.

And if you really dislike certain content so much, giving them ratings is the wrong way to discourage it. It increases popularity of the games in the eyes of the system. You browsed the game and were engaged enough to bother with a rating. Also, everyone knows that pixel art games get downvotes, so you will not let anyone know that the game is bad for using sub par resolution. Instead you improve the exposure of the game. And ruin your recommendations.

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Ratsnake Games12 days ago

Ah,  we're still pretending that disliking AI and hating queer people are somehow comparable

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redonihunter12 days ago (1 edit) (+2)

We are talking about rating games here, and not about how justified someone is in their dislike. Ai is legal. In some countries lgbt is not legal. People from those countries can justify that they are more justfied to dislike lgbt, than you can justifiy disliking ai. But why you dislike something or if you are in any way justified to dislike something, is not relevant in this discussion.

Try to justify it here anyway, and you are offtopic. Go to other threads where you can discuss your views on pixel art and other things.

If you systematically downrate games, because you dislike an aspect of those games, you are abusing the rating system and it borders harassment. And of course, it would be "bad faith" to just list up a tag you dislike and downrate all those games.

If you merely downrate games you played, based on your preferences - including dislike towards lgbt topics, ai usage, usage of low resolution graphics, or because the developer uses the "wrong" social platforms - that would be ok.

But regular people would just remove points from the 5 score for their dislike triggers and not go out of their way to evaluate games that feature their personal no-deal triggers.

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Ratsnake Games12 days ago (1 edit)

"AI is legal" - sure. But reviews are for expressing opinions, not for enforcing the law. "AI is unethical and artistically bankrupt" is an acceptable opinion. "Gay people need to shut up" is hate speech.

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redonihunter11 days ago

Dislike needs no justification. It is preference in games. We can discuss your views in another topic. But be warned, that flame war topics are against the rules. It might be a rather short discussion though, since I dislike ai graphics pixel art about gay characters. I would still play such games, but it would not be bonus points to peak my interest, and I would not vote games down because of such elements.

You came here, triggered by an example list of ratings that have nothing to do with the games itself and misrepresented this listing of examples as a comparison between the dislike reasons. Right there you started acting like one reason for dislike would be better than any other. This was not the point of the examples, this is not the point of this thread. But you try to make this about ai. Please go talk about ai somewhere else.

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Ratsnake Games11 days ago (1 edit)

No, I am not "trying to make this about AI". That's an example someone else brought into the discussion as an example for something that needs to be protected from "bad faith" reviews. They brought that here, not me.

We cannot come to an agreement about how to prevent "bad faith" ratings if we cannot fundamentally agree what makes a review "bad faith", or if such a thing even exists. If you do not want to discuss what constitutes "bad faith" reviews, you simply should not discuss how to sanction those reviews. Period. Those two topics cannot be separated from one another.

Also, the idea that a game being made with AI has "nothing to do with the games itself" is just patently absurd.

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