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Anyone remember Miniclip.com? Something I didn't realize at the time was that their "Top 10 List" was not actually based on usage stats, but based on their edit
by diebeforei485 2y ago
Anyone remember Miniclip.com? Something I didn't realize at the time was that their "Top 10 List" was not actually based on usage stats, but based on their editorial decisions and decisions of games to pay to be on the list.
- t_mann 2y agoI do remember it fondly, but I don't remember ever thinking any of what they show you was necessarily based on usage stats. Iirc there were pretty obvious editorial decisions like the front page having a Halloween theme around Halloween and promoting Halloween-themed games, sometimes fairly obvious re-skins of regular front page games (and similar time-based events around some other holidays). It also wasn't expected, it was clearly from the pre-web2 era, there was no upvoting, I believe there wasn't even a comment section. There was nothing to really suggest that how you use the site would directly affect how it'll look (beyond influencing the operators). Top 10 games would obviously have meant a similar thing as top 10 stories on a news site - clearly an editorial decision, where clicks and expectations thereof ofc play a role, but it's not an automatism.