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Looks like Valve is introducing a new review system to filter out "unhelpful" reviews (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] RememberTheApollo_ 41 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Does this mean “reviews that negatively affect profits” or does in mean genuinely removing irrelevant content?

[–] Maalus 11 points 3 months ago

You can mark a review as helpful. If it's that, then users decide about it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 1 points 3 months ago

All good points.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

For the same reasons that the YT algorithm is deliberately mysterious, Valve shouldn't be letting people know how to game systems like this.

[–] steel_nomad 4 points 3 months ago

Asking the real questions.

[–] EncryptKeeper 4 points 3 months ago

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