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Looks like Valve is introducing a new review system to filter out "unhelpful" reviews
(www.eurogamer.net)
Please just give us a "maybe"
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
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Does this mean “reviews that negatively affect profits” or does in mean genuinely removing irrelevant content?
I would hope that it’s removing that one review about being a 40 year old dad that plays the game with his son that’s on every single game in the Steam store. And also hopefully that copy pasted one with the check boxes
Asking the real questions.
It probably works based on whether users marking reviews as helpful or unhelpful and then uses some formula to remove the unhelpful ones. So it can be neither, but the key takeaway is that the users decide what ends up filtered out.
Thanks. That’s actually not too bad an idea. However, I’ll offer that it could lead to critics being silenced. Not necessarily out of nefarious purposes, but people love the downvote train sometimes.
For the same reasons that the YT algorithm is deliberately mysterious, Valve shouldn't be letting people know how to game systems like this.
Yeah, that's why I said it's neither because people can be unpredictable. It might not filter out irrelevant content because people love to upvote memes and it might filter out criticism because sometimes people downvote criticism.
Overall like with some other Steam features the value of the feature is dependent on the community, and generally that value has been a net positive.
All good points.
You can mark a review as helpful. If it's that, then users decide about it.
You can now review reviews
Always could
You could only not mark a review as helpful. You couldn’t provide context if the reviewer didn’t allow comments.
Yo dawg...
Slashdot nailed this decades ago.
has it really been decades 😭
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