Splitting the appdb Top 25 list

[Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes]

On Saturday 18 October 2008 00:18:24 Jeff Davis wrote:
> I'm not a developer, but I joined to make a humble suggestion in a place
> where someone might actually have the power to act on it.
>
> Does anyone think it would be a good idea to split the Top 25 into two
> lists, one for games, and one for applications/other?
>
> By my count, every item of the top 10 is a game.  22 out of the Top 25 are
> games or game-related.
>
> I don't think it's necessarily true that more people are interested in
> running The Sims than iTunes, or that The Sims is or should be a higher
> priority
> than having iTunes working.
>
> I think it gives the wrong impression of wine and its priorities, and makes
> a person feel a bit hopeless voting for an application no matter how many
> millions of
> people are users of that application on Windows.  I think people would be
> more interested in voting for applications if they could get feedback on
> WineHQ.
>
> Thoughts?


I wonder if we should perhaps just remove the AppDB voting system alltogether. 
As you said, it doesn't seem to be giving a good representation of users' 
interests.


Alexander N. Sørnes