Method

How do you know it is right?

How Subfeel reads a feeling, and how a feeling earns a number.

1. 01

   Nine feelings

   Joy, interest, affection, desire, sadness, anger, fear, disgust and surprise. They can appear together. A good horror game produces fear and joy at the same time.

2. 02

   What counts

   A feeling counts whether it is said outright or clearly implied. "I laughed the whole way through" is joy. "Great game" with no feeling behind it is not.

3. 03

   Written definitions

   Each feeling is one written paragraph, and the reader works from that paragraph. The definitions are published, so anyone can check them against their own reviews.

4. 04

   Judged blind

   Every flag is checked by a human judge who sees the text and the claim and nothing else. An item is judged once and never shown again.

5. 05

   The bar

   A feeling is claimed on a kind of text only after blind judgment finds it right at least 8 times in 10, on reviews the reader has never seen, with the statistics to show it was not luck. Measured means we have the number. Proven means it cleared the bar.

6. 06

   Independent review

   Every rule and answer key is checked by a reviewer kept separate from the person who built it. What counts as success is written down before the data arrives.