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Chess Variant Pages Rating System. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]This idea is good in general, but your category system strikes me as weak. Your four categories other than 'Overall' do not, between them, get at what is most important about a game. How well the variant achieves its stated goals? Whether that's even a good thing depends on the goals. The number and quality of novel concepts introduced in the variant? I don't think I'm alone in believing that a large number of good chess variants -- probably easily a majority -- rank relatively low in this category, while many bad ones rank very high. It seems to me that the main thing is PLAYABILITY. 'Aesthetic appeal' has something to do with playability, but doesn't really cover it. And then 'Presentation' is just the web page. I can easily imagine disliking a chess variant and yet ranking it equal or higher in each of these categories to a game I really liked.
This system seems much too tedious. How about having numerical ratings in the comments and a rankings page based on that? Perhaps editors can review ratings for being official or not, having the same requirements as this system.
It does seem that this rating system has been little used. The highest rated game has remained the same for the longest time, and it has been rated only twice. The two main problems with it right now are visibility and competition. The link to rate a game appears near the bottom of the page. Meanwhile, there is a link at the top of each game page for rating the page. People who want to rate a game usually use the top link, which is for entering a comment and a brief rating. With two systems in place for rating games, people are favoring the one that is more visible and easier to use. David, if you want people to use this system instead, my recommendation is to (1) make it more visible and (2) use only a single rating system. Either remove ratings from comments or integrate this system into the comment system.
I am deprecating this. In the years it has been around, it has hardly been used. The new system of selecting favorites, now integrated into the menubar, replaces this. The new system is much simpler, highly visible, and not limited to selected variants.
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