Forums > Bugs > Where are my missing points?
Simon Carless (1834) on 12/24/2017 4:01 PM · Permalink · Report
It was the Grinch who stole Christmas! (Uh, I'm not sure, can you use the Wayback Machine to work it out...)
Victor Vance (18129) on 12/25/2017 4:03 AM · Permalink · Report
Has there been a change of weighting of a contribution type (like we had it once for reviews)?
Flapco (46055) on 12/25/2017 10:23 PM · Permalink · Report
Could it be that companies from the release info got removed or added. I noticed this a few times that after I submitted a game and somebody else added the credits sometimes extra companies got added. But regardless of this I think a few measly points more or less should not be that big of a deal;)
Plok (220047) on 12/25/2017 10:44 PM · Permalink · Report
[Q --start Flapco wrote--]Could it be that companies from the release info got removed or added. [/Q --end Flapco wrote--] Full disclosure - I've been doing just that for the past 2-3 days. There's a lot of DLC/special editions/compilations/etc. that still don't have that removed. I did briefly check if an example game (happened to be jaXen's contribution) had any effect if I removed the developers (note that this isn't rejecting or replacing, just removing one part of the existing submission), and it didn't, at least not in that moment.
I did also edit some genres for a more complete description (I don't think there are points to be made there anyway and there's so much stuff to go through to deal with admittedly ultraslow corrections), especially as some games still use old categorization methods, so I don't know if that has any effect either.
If any staff members know what's up or if what I'm doing is discouraged, please let me know.
Patrick Bregger (303226) on 12/25/2017 11:19 PM · Permalink · Report
Manipulating release information through the admin interface definitely has some unexpected side effects. This year I have 1537 points for company release information with only 30 contributed release info - this just has to come from the ton of release corrections I processed this year.
Foxhack (32099) on 12/26/2017 4:53 AM · Permalink · Report
I think I was told that doing this doesn't affect a user's points - I'm certainly guilty of adding missing or removing incorrect companies from release infos, but I didn't think anything weird would happen until you mentioned this.
So. Weird.
Plok (220047) on 12/26/2017 9:19 AM · Permalink · Report
After losing 4 points myself and reading Patrick's post, I've come to a conclusion.
Last night, I removed developers from four DLC packs for Worms Reloaded that I submitted in 2011. In my profile, that counts as four fewer entries in the "Company Release Info" counter, however this seems to have a delay on recalculation.
Simon Carless (1834) on 12/26/2017 5:06 PM · Permalink · Report
If we are cleaning up the database, people are fine with this, right? (Hopefully.)
jaXen (261015) on 12/26/2017 9:32 PM · Permalink · Report
[Q --start Simon Carless wrote--]If we are cleaning up the database, people are fine with this, right? (Hopefully.) [/Q --end Simon Carless wrote--]
Well, if a notification is send what was changed...yes. Otherwise it is more than possible that the database has more faults than before.
Karsa Orlong (151778) on 1/14/2018 1:57 PM · Permalink · Report
Depends who's doing it :)
Rik Hideto (473438) on 1/19/2018 8:04 AM · edited · Permalink · Report
[Q --start jaXen wrote--]We have our very own Trump approver here :-( [/Q --end jaXen wrote--]
I just found two entries scraped by you with incorrect developer/publisher. You will probably lose 9 silly MG points, so be prepared. It's the end of the world.
Edwin Drost (9682) on 1/17/2018 11:08 PM · Permalink · Report
Mmmm....for some strange reason I am missing one point all of the sudden.