UBON'S PROFILE

author=mawk
Okay, I'm going to turn my capital letters on for now because I have a serious question for everyone who's been talking about how this needs some quality control in place. Well, two questions, really:

First, why is it necessary? All the reasoning I've heard so far has been something along the lines of "it would upset me" or "some things don't deserve money" and, while I'm sure both of these are true in certain circumstances, they're not valid reasoning for this sort of thing. So why is it important that bad games don't get sold here, really? Bad games get hosted here all the time. If they're as bad as you say, then let people know with reviews and stuff like that and people will keep wisely away.

Second, and this one is important, how are you going to enforce it, and on what standards? You're all fine waving your hands and going "oh those bad games" right now when you don't have to name names, but can you put that to actual use if you need to? Can you know a bad game when you see it, and describe why in a way that can be applied in most situations in a nearly objective sense? What are your criteria? This isn't critique, where you can tailor things to what's in front of you -- this is an approval process, so you need to be specific and all-encompassing at the same time. Are any of you prepared to do that? Because, frankly, I don't think most of you can tell a bad game it's bad unless it's such an obvious joke that it's got bells on.

(Keep in mind that we already have slight quality control measures in place for submitted game pages, for the sake of making sure the page is fairly clear and gives a good amount of information. I believe that this is currently all that's necessary -- anything beyond that is so subjective and vague as to be practically unenforceable on a large scale.)

Thanks for your time.