{"id":14205,"date":"2014-10-06T21:47:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T02:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14205"},"modified":"2014-10-07T11:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:51:38","slug":"fixing-steams-user-rating-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14205","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Steam&#8217;s User Rating Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By contrast, the current ranking system leads to the popular becoming more popular &#8212; once you&#8217;re on the top charts, you have increased visibility, which leads to more reviews, which further cements your chart position (as long as you stay inside your semantic rating bucket).<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortressofdoors.com\/an-algorithm-for-discovering-hidden-gems\/\">discover hidden gems<\/a> really need the search functionality to work with us, not against us. We want a system where the top charts are self-correcting, rather than self-reinforcing. Otherwise we get a situation like Apple&#8217;s with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/stateside\/54193\/stateside-apple-is-powerless-to-thaw-the-app-stores-big-freeze\/\">frozen charts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2014\/02\/19\/how-one-scammer-manipulated-apples-top-charts-to-earn-tens-of-thousands-daily-using-a-10-gamesalad-template\/\">shady tactics<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trademob.com\/rising-user-acquisition-costs-app-marketers-need-smarter-2\/\">skyrocketing user acquisition costs<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortressofdoors.com\/fixing-steams-user-rating-charts\/\">Fixing Steam&#8217;s User Rating Charts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By contrast, the current ranking system leads to the popular becoming more popular &#8212; once you&#8217;re on the top charts, you have increased visibility, which leads to more reviews, which further cements your chart position (as long as you stay &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=14205\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[661,1341,1227,746],"class_list":["post-14205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-gaming","tag-ranking-systems","tag-statistics","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14206,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14205\/revisions\/14206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}