Greenlight: Any official confirmation on whether downvote nullifies upvote?

[TekDragon]

I have voted down hundreds of games. Many of them I think belong on Steam, but they're just games I'm not interested in and it was the only way to get them off my "Games waiting to be rated" list.

A friend informed me that by down voting I am actually removing an up vote, while other members of my gaming crew say that there's no way Valve would be stupid enough to design it that way.

Do we have any official word one way or another?

If down-vote does nullify an up-vote I am just going to ignore Greenlight. That is a simply horrible system that will completely prevent any niche games from succeeding no matter how well designed they are or how successful they might be on Steam.

[leezeebub]

My personal rating system is -

Genuine dislike = Downvote

Not really my thing but looks ok = Up vote

Want for myself = Up vote + favourite

[TekDragon]

Originally Posted by leezeebub

My personal rating system is -

Genuine dislike = Downvote

Not really my thing but looks ok = Up vote

Want for myself = Up vote + favourite

That's actually a very good idea.

Unfortunately it's completely unintuitive and the handful of people who do that will be completely invalidated by everyone else who down votes games they are not interested in personally - as any sane individual would interpret the system.

[targetbsp]

The whole design is either horribly flawed (by the random order and inability to hide games you are uninterested in, nor se new titles only) OR it's designed for thumbs down to actually mean remove from my to vote for list.

As far as I'm concerned, if Steam didn't intend thumbs down to mean remove from list - they're going to have to sort the data out because we have no choice but to use it that way if we want to browse all games.

As far as I know, it doesn't cancel out an upvote (this is a guess), but the developer does see the ratio of upvotes to downvotes which may depress them (this is fact).

[TomB]

Originally Posted by TekDragon

I have voted down hundreds of games. Many of them I think belong on Steam, but they're just games I'm not interested in and it was the only way to get them off my "Games waiting to be rated" list.

A friend informed me that by down voting I am actually removing an up vote, while other members of my gaming crew say that there's no way Valve would be stupid enough to design it that way.

Do we have any official word one way or another?

If down-vote does nullify an up-vote I am just going to ignore Greenlight. That is a simply horrible system that will completely prevent any niche games from succeeding no matter how well designed they are or how successful they might be on Steam.

Down votes do not nullify up votes.

[JediEagle]

Any chance for a third option, like ignore? I dont think a game is bad, but I also wouldnt buy or play it It's kind of mean to down vote a game like that

[dark_inferno]

Originally Posted by leezeebub

My personal rating system is -

Genuine dislike = Downvote

Not really my thing but looks ok = Up vote

Want for myself = Up vote + favourite

Thats the same i do. When i see something and think about the Games on steam and think to myself "It could have a place in Steam" then it gets an upvote. But when the idea and the design is something that is copied or doesnt belong to Steam than it gets a down vote.

[JetsamXYZ]

Originally Posted by dark_inferno

Thats the same i do. When i see something and think about the Games on steam and think to myself "It could have a place in Steam" then it gets an upvote. But when the idea and the design is something that is copied or doesnt belong to Steam than it gets a down vote.

What exactly "doesn't belong on Steam"?

If it's a video game, be it a casual game, VN, or virtual chess, it could have a place on Steam. Judging what should and shouldn't be on Steam by its current catalog is a bad idea.

In 2008, if you told me that VNs would be on Steam in 2012 I would have laughed.

In 2003, if you told me that dozens of major publishers would be backing Steam nine years later, I would have also laughed.

[Miclee]

Originally Posted by TomB

Down votes do not nullify up votes.

Can you please explain, then, how my game 'Latura' had 1% of the required ratings last night, and is now fluttering randomly between 0% and 1%? If downvotes don't nullify upvotes, then the percentage should never go down.

[DanTheKraut]

Originally Posted by leezeebub

My personal rating system is -

Genuine dislike = Downvote

Not really my thing but looks ok = Up vote

Want for myself = Up vote + favourite

Im doing it the same way

[Dreadjaws]

Originally Posted by Miclee

Can you please explain, then, how my game 'Latura' had 1% of the required ratings last night, and is now fluttering randomly between 0% and 1%? If downvotes don't nullify upvotes, then the percentage should never go down.

As explained in the Greenlight FAQ, the percentages are relative to the other games on Greenlight. The more games there are, the lower the percentages for each one. This way they can check how games are being rated in relation to the other games instead of seeing how many individual votes each one has.

It's an experimental system, give it time to settle down.

[Kailieann]

Also, people can change their votes.

[ExtraSpecter]

How did project zomboid go from %11 likes yesterday to %6 now?

[GirlPower23]

Originally Posted by ExtraSpecter

How did project zomboid go from %11 likes yesterday to %6 now?

A few posts up explains how the system works.

[Griking]

Originally Posted by JediEagle

Any chance for a third option, like ignore? I dont think a game is bad, but I also wouldnt buy or play it It's kind of mean to down vote a game like that

But isn't that more or less what you're being asked by voting; whether you'd buy the game or not? Steam really doesn't care how special a game looks if people won't buy it. Steam is trying to determine how much interest there is in a game and whether it would be worth their time to sell it on Steam.