On Monday, 10 September 2018 14:54:22 UTC+2, Barry Churchill wrote: > > > The top ten on BGG is still dominated by real gamer, heavier games, so I > would have imagined they do still mean something to go by for the seasoned > gamer, and it has not been skewed by an influx. Was also wondering even if > new gamers votes have changed the ranking order why this would be rendered > meaningless. Surely new gamers votes are as important has gamer gamers > votes? > > It is impossible to create a list of games which everyone agrees on. That's why the numbers are mostly useless if that is all you go on. Only if you know your average tastes to coincide with that of the average BGG'er are the numbers worthwhile.
That said, you can ask the system to restrict the games to a major family of games. Once BGG is back up, click or hover (I forget which) on the blue 'Boardgamegeek' tab at the very mid-top of the screen. You can select a particular family of games there; I'd suggest 'Family' ;-). If you *then* ask for a top-something, the system will filter out the rest and show titles you may find yourself agreeing with better. But it will *never* be a shopping list you can blindly rely on; you will always have to do some critical legwork. Also, it has been a long-standing wish of many to have more filtering capabilities in the way comments and rates are presented. Perhaps this feature will be created in the upcoming years. While I do not condone such filtering (as the results will be as good as the reasons for including or excluding groups of rates, and contrary to what you may believe, it's not that simple), I understand the rationale for having it. HTH. Maarten -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
