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Kevin Pacey wrote on Wed, Sep 27, 2017 11:30 PM UTC:

Hi Fergus

My first impression is that your ideas thus far for change related to the topic of games to recommend to viewers might be too complicated for most folks to appreciate, at least at not much more than a glance (which seems desirable to me, as far as assessing a given game's popularity or potential goes, given that there's so many of them).

One thing you might change is the way the 'Our Favorites' CVP list of games is handled, if you're all concerned members will begin to favourite too many games, making that CVP list perhaps undesirably long (such as the Game Courier list of All Games presently definitely is, in terms of going through all of it thoroughly). Right now there's something like 70+ games chosen by 2 or more members, which is a nice list length IMHO.

Games favourited by just 1 member (a huge number right now, too) might not be shown on the 'Our Favorites' CVP list a) until they are favourited by more members, or b) until games favourited only by the inventor are favourited by more members, or c) unless they are favourited only once, but by someone other than the inventor (this last option may not prune the CVP list enough even right now, though, IMHO). A potential long-term drawback of this recommendation of mine (whichever option of a), b) or c) might be selected) is that eventually the 'Our Favouites' CVP list may grow too long anyway, in which case other way(s) might be considered to prune it.

Something else you might want to consider when making recommendations is the Game Corier Rating(s) of a given member who favourites a particular game(s).


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