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Salmon P. Chess. Huge three-dimensional game celebrating 10 years chess variant pages. (10x(), Cells: 7500) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Greg Strong wrote on Fri, May 20, 2005 02:41 PM UTC:

Yeah, I must reluctantly agree that it is probably a good idea to disallow unregistered users from making ratings. It probably does more harm than good to allow them to rate. Not only because of some occasionally spurious ratings (I actually think that this is extremely rare), but also because many ratings from unregistered users are just bad for the following reasons: (1) frequently they are from kids (or adults who can't write or explain themselves) and these opinions are generally not thought out at all. The members of this site all try to see the pros and cons in a game, and point out what is interesting and what is problematic. (2) A familiarity with (and an appreciation for) Chess Variants is critical when rating; a game is not 'poor' (at least by our description) because it is not Chess, or is not Shogi. (3) I have seen a couple of really, really rediculous reasons for rating games 'poor' although I can't think of an example off the top of my head. Such ratings are almost always from unregistered users. (4) Some ratings have nothing at all ... Just a 'poor' or an 'excellent' with no description, and sometimes they don't even bother to type in any name at all!