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So I've rated games without leaving a comment. It was an ok game maybe but nothing really blew me away so I just give it an honest rating and move on. You're going to notice that that games with 50+ reviews seldom 'win' the jam. Often the top games will have ratings in the teens. So quality is way better than quantity. There is a degree of subjectivity only when the game doesn't blow you away! When it's an amazing game it just racks up all the 5 stars. When it's not then you have to try and figure out a relative score and people are going to score differently. Seek quantity of ratings if you don't care about position in rankings but do want to know how to make your game better. Seek quality by doing nothing and just letting at least 10 honest rating come in. And by "honest" I mean you avoid the "wow great game play my game" pointless circle jerk. That doesn't benefit you at all. We all get a course, nobody gets any money or anything really. The jam will be forgotten about in a week and everyone will move on so take it easy and just enjoy playing some cool entries when time allows 

Sounds reasonable. 
Defintely quantity is not the same as quality. So far we have good amount of nice comments that makes us happy and give food for thoughts, some suggestions. So what else game devs may wish at game jam :)