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EnTerr
Roku Guru
10 years ago

The number of app ratings went DOWN... how?

Today i noticed something - four days ago my app had 66 ratings, now it has 65. How is that possible?

I know "accounts installed" can vary up and down based on how many people are retaining a channel in their lineup. But ratings? I have looked for a way to "retract" my vote before and there isn't any. Thus it seems to me the number of votes should be a strictly non-decreasing (or "monotonically increasing") function. What could cause a decrement?
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  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert
    10 years ago
    If the rating isn't deleted when a channel is deleted, I hope that if the channel is re-added the person isn't able to submit a new rating!

    -JT
  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    10 years ago
    "renojim" wrote:
    If the rating isn't deleted when a channel is deleted, I hope that if the channel is re-added the person isn't able to submit a new rating!

    By this is suppose you mean "1 person => 1 vote" or "person's vote should be counted at most once" ?
    They should of course be able to change their vote however/whenever they please.

    Currently re-adding a channel "automagically" re-adds/recovers/re-counts their previous vote.
  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert
    10 years ago
    Changing it is fine. Creating additional ratings every time it is deleted/re-added would be very, very bad.

    -JT