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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coz" data-source="post: 7653109" data-attributes="member: 6631">I wonder if there is some danger in publishing explicit results like this to game the system, for instance, while delighted that the Best RPG ever(TM) (Star Wars D6) is still being talked about, it's percentage seems awful low, could that not inspire someone to go out and mention their favorite system as often as possible online in order to get its' numbers up? For instance: hiding multiple mentions of a particular game in the header or footer of a webpage (or using multiple shill accounts to add many comments to a blog post/forum thread/subreddit with their favorite system within it). I suppose the danger isn't that regular gamers will do this , but that a designer or the marketing departments at a larger publisher seeing that their game doesn't have "enough" mindshare here and going out and directly gaming the results to make their game look much more popular than it is.Also, a few questions about your sources, do you include reddit, it has many many subreddits for specific games, tho many are fairly dead in terms of activity compared to the main r/rpg sub, if not why? Do you include the GenCon forums (they're independent of any publisher I think and plenty of games are discussed on there), if not, why? And why not include the non-independent forums in the results, I've seen plenty of discussion of other systems on the Paizo boards for instance (and they have a no edition war policy to boot). For instance if your algorithm could be tweaked to look at paizo's forum and exclude mentions of pathfinder or look at wotc's forum and exclude D&D/gamma world, etc?Finally, regarding your formatting, please use colors that are easier to distinguish from one another in future charts, even after zooming the image it was difficult to tell which green for instance referred to Shadowrun, which to firefly, etc.</blockquote>

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