So, I just recently noticed, that after I rate a random game as a user (I'm not a developer), and then refresh the game page, the rating I gave to the game is not registered on the game page.
I'm recently especially looking for free hidden gems, and games which didn't got much attention, so when I give them a rating, that may be the very first rating the game ever got, or at least is amongst the first very few ratings the game got since years, so it must be noticeable on the game page, when for example I throw a 5-star rating on it.
I tried refreshing the page multiple times and waiting for a few minutes, to see some change on the game pages, but apparently my ratings don't register, even though if I check it in amongst my ratings https://itch.io/library/rated on my profile, they are properly listed as rated.
This may be a bug, or I may just have no clue about how much time it usually takes for itch to register a user rating on a game.
Is it not automated?
May I got silently banned because I was throwing too many 5-star ratings on random stuff recently?
Is there any way to find out the source of the problem?
Did this happen with anyone else?
Edit, update:
It seem to be that not only my new ratings don't register, but my old ones are also not having any effect. For example some long time ago, I rated a good game 5-stars that was rated 1-stars by one other person, so that way the game got a 3-star rating average, but now it is fallen back to the 1-star rating it got from some other random person.
So really, what's happening? Is this a platform bug, maybe a database inconsistency? Or does itch secretly practice some kind of odd selective silent banning on me without giving me any warnings, any notices, any info about it??? Duh, why not send me an email at least?
Yeah I read the rules of this section about "no discussion of account restrictions", so please spare me if this is actually some kind of an "account restriction" on me, as I got no notice about it, I thought it is a bug! And anyway I still hope to believe it is!
Please anyone, who may have an idea about what's going on, throw it here.
Did anyone try to check recently if anything happens, when you rate a game that was still not rated, or at least was not rated by many other persons?