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That's a good idea, especially to people who just rate the game without playing it. However, If people have already played that game before and have to wait 5 minutes just to rate it, they might get a little frustrated.

...to ban them, like maybe a temporary ban on their IP address for a day or two.

5 minutes is a good idea on games. Profile comments and forum posts should stay at 30 though. And the timer is good two.

That's a good idea, and it would prevent people from making new accounts just to get around a ban, but they could just register on a different computer.

It's also possible, of course, to see how often a user is posting and if their behavior "looks" spammy (lots of short comments in the same thread or several threads or on several game pages, etc), then we could start imposing a delay. I have a feeling that my last idea about karma tracking will put a solid dent in things though, and we could impose karma deficits if we see the same IP/Email registering several accounts in a short span of time, like "Hey, we see you've just made your 43rd account this afternoon. Maybe we won't let you post anything for a day..."

I'm going to have a chat with the guys tomorrow. The idea of a timer before you can rate a game seems like a good idea, but we'd have to be careful about implementation.

Another user came up with the idea of rating a game based on how difficult you, as a user, find the gameplay. Check out the thread. I think a timer response for that could be handy as well, to ensure the person actually played the game.

I'm wondering, though, if something like a crowd-sourced difficulty rating might have to be something built into the game itself so it doesn't get abused. It could really turn players off if a bunch of people made a difficult game sound really easy, or frustrate a gamedev who makes an easy game but a bunch of people flag it as "impossible".

Also in that thread, I proposed statistics, which would be brought up via link or drop-down box that could see how many users rated 10, 7, 5, 2, etc., which could be implemented into both the average rating and the other aspects of the game. While that thread proposes difficulty, I thought of having the game rated with other aspects, such as gameplay, sound, graphics, replayability, etc.

These are the kind of threads that help each other out, I guess.

I think there shouldn't be a comment/rate wait increase or decrease. I think there shouldn't be one at all, because everyone can think out they're review and post it to stay there forever unless it get's deleted by a member of the staff. I mean, why would you need to post a comment and another one right after that one? No! that's not right. People should take they're time to think a review for the game they just played, and you could only post one review per game. Posting several reviews may just be considered spam. Since you won't be getting AP for posting reviews on AG3, I think it should be only one review per game.

And there should also be a rating system, like Freakenstein mentioned above. Overall, you shouldn't be allowed to post 2 or more reviews, only one for every single game. That's a way to be fair.

Hold that thought Zanto, lemme see what everyone posted...I kinda forgot what everyone else said in this thread...

I like the thought of reputation being set in for your timers. If you are a pretty reputable person who usually posts very strong comments, the timer wait would go down a smidgen. After all, we wanna promote and encourage those comments. If you are in the negatives somewhere, mostly due to your spammy activity, the timer would go up. I see it as a...detriment to the posting, as it implies "Woah there Charlie. Go post some good comments every once in a while!"

Of course, we all should get a timer for waiting to comment and rate, no question there. Play the game, immerse yourself in it, then when the X minutes are up, you can rate and comment as you please.

Of course, we all should get a timer for waiting to comment and rate, no question there. Play the game, immerse yourself in it, then when the X minutes are up, you can rate and comment as you please.

I think there shouldn't be a comment/rate wait increase or decrease.
I think there shouldn't be one at all
why would you need to post a comment and another one right after that
No! that's not right. People should take they're time to think

Play the game, immerse yourself in it, then when the X minutes are up, you can rate and comment as you please.

Wait a minute.
You did get what my post was about, right? I was talking about posting one review per game.

I think a rating system for comments would be good. If a comment gets an especially bad rating, then it'll be minimized.