I think "1" CAN be a legitimate score. I rate pinball machines like this: 1 is the worst machine I've ever played, 10 would be a perfect machine. Some people seem to rate all machines from 6 to 10. Instead of holding it to pinball it gets held to the world around us. Bad pinball still has to be at least a 6, because it's still pinball. I guess in that case a 1 would be a torturous death, and 10 would be something like eating some Kobe beef while getting a blumkin from Salma (not really my type, but she seems popular around here ).

I also adjusted my ratings to fit my preferences. I really don't care about cabinet art in relation to gameplay. I think it was a good idea to make the ratings adjustable, it gives my list an accurate rank based on my priorities.

Read the ratings and try not to get defensive when a game you own gets knocked down a spot. Let's not rehash the whole thing to try to keep some of the more belligerent among us from trolling, stupid people never disappoint.

I was thinking about this before.. It would be sorta cool to have a slide where you position pins. Something like this:

--Nascar---DH---LW3----JP----DM----JD----WH20----AFM---

That would certainly bring some variation to the ratings, it forces people to rate pins in relation to each other. I'm sure that could also be abused, as well (putting a top 5 at the bottom, for instance). You could still rank every machine whatever you'd like, Nascar may be a 9 to you, but it would not play on the rankings because you had that machine as your lowest - those numbers would be more for your own reference.

Just a thought, I'm not really one that thinks we really need to overhaul the entire ranking system.