@Anti-Matter unfortunately we’re not going to add that as an option. When you post a thread you are posting it for the whole site and therefore anyone can post. If you see any comments breaking our rules then we will remove them and any persistent offenders may see their accounts banned. Deleting a thread and reposting it again over and over would be considered as a spam technique — just because you don’t agree with the opinions posted doesn’t mean you should delete/repost multiple times.
@Ninfan hey there... we (Hookshot) don't run a PC gaming website, but our friends over at ReedPop run one called Rock, Paper, Shotgun which you can find here: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/
I know there has occasionally been discussion of having player-reviews linked to the game page on NintendoLife which would be great.
Assuming the above is not about to happen, how about a 'game reviews' category on the forum as a less formal alternative? People occasionally drop reviews in the 'games you recently beat' thread and a few other random places, but having an official spot for player reviews to live would be convenient and make them easier to find.
Adding onto what @FishyS suggested, I think having a 'favourite game on a Nintendo console' portion on your profile (underneath stuff like Date Joined, Location, Website, etc.) would be a nice little touch that lets people know what kind of games you're into.
For a more visual example, I made a quick mockup for what something like this could look like
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@Fizza That's actually an awesome idea you had. I'm not sure how often people visit each others' Nintendo Life profiles, but it would likely give more of an incentive to do so. Maybe a personal top 5 game list or something.
I’ve noticed the page tends to be weird on my iPad when I go vertical/portrait mode.
The page changes to resemble the mobile version, but the menu drawer at the top of the page gets glitched and only shows the “Manage Topics” option, so any other option you would normally get in mobile mode is lost, and you need to switch back to landscape mode to get the desktop-style menus back.
@FishyS I'm actually still very keen to get some kind of user-review system happening. The biggest issue is around how we verify someone is posting a fair/valid review and not just making it up to review-bomb/spam etc. There will need to be a certain barrier to entry to avoid it being misused. Any thoughts?
@Fizza the 'Games' part of the profile kind of does this, you can see what games someone likes by what they have rated games... I think we would likely expand that side of things rather than having a user select a specific 'favourite'. Interesting idea though!
@Eel yeah there is some oddness with rotating, especially on tablets, it will get better the next time we have a big design refresh... promise!
@Rambler yeah, I was thinking maybe 50 (posts/comments) across the site(s) and a member for more than 30 days or something as a starting point. I don't think that is too much to ask.
@Rambler yeah, I was thinking maybe 50 (posts/comments) across the site(s) and a member for more than 30 days or something as a starting point. I don't think that is too much to ask.
I think something like that should be enough to stop spammers. In some sense we shouldn't care too much if a non-professional review is perfect; for games with a professional NintendoLife review and/or at least 3 user scores it will just be an alternative opinion and for games with no other reviews it will at least be some type of information.
I would say the worst 'danger' is if e.g. a game dev writes a totally inaccurate glowing review of their own game. To partially defend against that I might suggest some way to rate either individual reviews or reviewers and have that information be visible on the review. e.g. if someone has 80 review points, 80 people have said that person makes useful reviews so are maybe trustworthy or if on an individual review maybe put a button to agree or disagree with the accuracy of the review.
The majority of NintendoLife users presumably would still only click on actual articles rather than scanning through a game page and clicking the player-review button or whatever so in some sense this would be for a minority of 'super-users' who hopefully would know what they're getting into; as long as it is sufficiently segregated from official content, I don't think the bar has to be extremely high.
Maybe there could be some sort of hidden exp system that combines time, participation, and agreeability (hearts on comments), and at a certain threshold it unlocks the feature.
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