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Hi,

I recently had an idea - what if we create a community-driven database of computer games companies, where for every company, you have an ethical score of that company. You can also check how that score changed over time and how that score is calculated.

I was thinking about that because it feels like a lot of gamedev companies are doing shit right now, but there are 2 problems:

  • A lot of that shit will be forgotten by the masses in a year or two. Such a database would address that issue by remembering all the immoral stuff a company did in the past.
  • Some companies are bullied by people because of one shitty thing they did, but at the same time, nobody really remembers what good that company might have done. For example, a lot will remember that company X fired a bunch of workers but not a lot of people will remember that a year prior, the company supported a group of minor game developers. Such a database would help calculate a "fair" score of the morality of that company.

Maybe in the future, such a knowledge base can be used to pressure game development companies into better decisions, who knows?

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[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

How will the ethics be computed? Some people care about AI use in development, some about mass firings, and still others about the presence of non-white characters.

Would your moral compass be imposed or would it merely be a list of attributes that others can assign weights to for a final score based on their criteria?

[-] dragontology@retrofed.com 2 points 3 days ago

Wild guess: aggregated score card with individual reviewers having a score card. Let users vote up a reviewer to make their vote count more (or down for less) or ignore/block a reviewer to make theirs not count. That way, the user’s own views weigh the score card.

[-] hayvan@piefed.world 5 points 4 days ago

It doesn't have to be one final score, but a few aspects. Crunch times, slop use, gambling...

[-] YUART@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

I think this definitely must be controlled by a community, because, as you correctly said, different people care about different things. Maybe it should be some kind of consensus or voting for different types of ethical problems, idk.

For now, I have no idea how such calculations can be done to be actually "fair", I'm just proposing a topic for discussion. But, in my opinion, this shouldn't be done by one person - that's for sure.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

It would be personal opinion, obviously.

One thing I've started seeing more of is "scores" where the user is able to actually add multipliers to different characteristics to help them find something that suits their personal needs.

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