Post by HelperWesley in I suspect that someone may be attempting to cheat by leaving comments on numerous games without actually playing or rating them properly.

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It's not really realistic for us to moderate everyone who's rating games. It's almost certain that some people will rate games in bad faith, but this is why we do judge voting at the end of the jam. The community voting portion of the jam is great for broadly separating games based on quality, but because of those sorts of bad actors, the results can't be 100% trusted. So we do the judges' pick with a team of people to try and sort the top-rated games from the community picks, along with some gems we notice while monitoring the jam. 👍

Retro-Bit Bandit290 days ago

I fully understand. Then I will just leave up the post as a word of caution and to show those who do it that it is not going unnoticed. Thank you for all the hard work you guys have already put into the jam :)

HelperWesley290 days ago

👍

BUKKBEEK289 days ago

I guess I noticed the same thing. When you see their recent comments section, It's the same comment asking to check their games over and over again.

DZwastaken289 days ago

I agree. This person(I think were all talking about the same one) has left comments on pages without games saying "great job, well done. btw check out my game:"

And when you go to thier page it has almost 80 ratings, while the ones on the "in need of ratings" page have like 3

I don't think it's cheating, but something feels wrong enough for multiple ppl to be commenting about it as u can see

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