Humble Plea: Rate A Game Today at IFDB

The disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the very groovy
Interactive Fiction Database.

http://ifdb.tads.org/

Because I'm simply not that cool. But, I'm a big fan/user of it, and
I'm posting today just to remind folks of all the games on IFDB that
need more ratings.

A tiny handful of games have lots of ratings. Photopia has more than a
hundred, for example, so I can put some real stock in the idea that
its literally stellar (4-1/2 out of 5 stars) ratings is worth
noticing. Lost Pig has nearly 70 ratings; Galatea nearly 60, and so
on. But those fortunate few are the minority. Some 40% of the games on
IFDB have fewer than a dozen ratings, and in many cases "fewer than a
dozen" means only three, or two ... or even one.

[cue shot of a text adventure game standing in a muddy ditch, its
stomach swollen, flies buzzing around its mouth]

In fact, more than 1,800 games at the IFDB - some 55% of the total -
are more like Hadji, here, with no ratings at all. Without ratings,
these games could die.

Rating a game at the IFDB isn't hard and it costs so little. Simply
click somewhere on the empty bar of five stars at the right-hand side
of the page, and your vote will be counted. Just one vote can sustain
a game like Hadji - and its entire family - for a month or more.

Vote for games you love; vote for games you hate. Vote for games
you're pretty sure you played at some point. Just one rating a day,
from each of us, could ... provide some number of votes I can't
actually guess at, but it'd be AWESOME. I'm pretty sure of that.

Thank you.

On 2 Jan, 05:58, "S. John Ross" <sj....DeleteThis@io.com> wrote:
> The disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the very groovy
> Interactive Fiction Database.
>
> http://ifdb.tads.org/
>
> Because I'm simply not that cool. But, I'm a big fan/user of it, and
> I'm posting today just to remind folks of all the games on IFDB that
> need more ratings.
>
> A tiny handful of games have lots of ratings. Photopia has more than a
> hundred, for example, so I can put some real stock in the idea that
> its literally stellar (4-1/2 out of 5 stars) ratings is worth
> noticing. Lost Pig has nearly 70 ratings; Galatea nearly 60, and so
> on. But those fortunate few are the minority. Some 40% of the games on
> IFDB have fewer than a dozen ratings, and in many cases "fewer than a
> dozen" means only three, or two ... or even one.
>
> [cue shot of a text adventure game standing in a muddy ditch, its
> stomach swollen, flies buzzing around its mouth]
>
> In fact, more than 1,800 games at the IFDB - some 55% of the total -
> are more like Hadji, here, with no ratings at all. Without ratings,
> these games could die.
>
> Rating a game at the IFDB isn't hard and it costs so little. Simply
> click somewhere on the empty bar of five stars at the right-hand side
> of the page, and your vote will be counted. Just one vote can sustain
> a game like Hadji - and its entire family - for a month or more.
>
> Vote for games you love; vote for games you hate. Vote for games
> you're pretty sure you played at some point. Just one rating a day,
> from each of us, could ... provide some number of votes I can't
> actually guess at, but it'd be AWESOME. I'm pretty sure of that.
>
> Thank you.

Worry not. I rate every game I play, and review every unreviewed game
when I have something to add.

I love IFDB, btw. It's a wonderful database.