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Ranked jams: allow disabling an entry (still in jam, but not competing) #847

Open akien-mga opened 6 years ago

akien-mga commented 6 years ago

This might be a corner case suggestion, but I'll propose it anyway and let you see if it's worth implementing (or could be done already somehow).

The idea would be to give a way to "disable" a jam entry in a ranked jam, i.e. get it removed from the competition, but keep it visible in the list of jam entries. Currently the "Remove this submission" option will delete it altogether, and is IMO more fitted for removing spam than for removing legit entries that do not fulfill all jam requirements.

Context:

In the [latest Godot Jam](https://itch.io/jam/godotjam062018) we had a rule that jam participants should provide the source code for their games. Some entries failed to comply and while most still have some time to fix it, for one entry (with a high quality game, a potential winner) the author managed to actually lose their source code by deleting it locally before it was finished uploading to GitHub... As such entry doesn't match the rules, we should remove them from the jam ranking, but at the same time we'd like the community to still have access to this game which is worth playing. Removing the entry altogether would make it pretty hard to find for jam players.
leafo commented 6 years ago

I'm going to be adding a disqualified state for entries that doesn't kick them out of the jam, but only lists them on a special disqualified page and excludes them from ranking and voting. The submission page would remain, and a jam host would be able to show a disqualified reason across the top of the submission page.

Does that sound like it would work for this case?

akien-mga commented 6 years ago

Yeah that sounds great :)