Tag voting on mobile

  • EnganK
    2nd Aug 2021 Member 0 Permalink

    In the mobile version of TPT, users can put upvote/downvote tags, while in the PC version there is no such function.

    How does tag rating work, and does it work at all?

  • Maticzpl
    2nd Aug 2021 Member 0 Permalink

    Wdym. I cant see such thing on mobile? Can you give a screenshot?

  • EnganK
    3rd Aug 2021 Member 0 Permalink

    I think no. 

    I don't know how to insert an image into a post other than as a link.

  • jacob1
    4th Aug 2021 Developer 0 Permalink
    Tag voting isn't supposed to exist, it was removed around 9 years ago now, but still exists in my mod, because I didn't want to remove a feature that might be useful. Since the Android port is based on my mod, it also has this.

    My prevailing theory is that voting on tag influences the in-game search results. For example, if you search "city", you'll find a bunch of saves with city in the title and in the tags, but some of them are ranked higher than others, not only by votes. Perhaps someone voted the "city" tag on some of these saves.
    For as developed as my theory is, I haven't ever found anything in the website code that would actually handle this. I don't have too much visibility into how the search works. There's an equally good chance that voting on tags does nothing.
  • EnganK
    4th Aug 2021 Member 0 Permalink

    Thanks. Close the thread, please.

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