Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Xocyll Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Steam's Revising Reviews Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 14:32:15 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <631f03a47bb6d5caa31362d13a55102d3d33f151@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 20:34:40 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d18443a88ae4b85551af5aeffea55940"; logging-data="1617726"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/VeueVHmRrY2B7foyvtRe4" Cancel-Lock: sha1:bTks1DDKzj1goO7mdkbNxSiLrKw= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.640 Bytes: 2309 Justisaur looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >On 8/16/2024 1:38 AM, JAB wrote: >> On 16/08/2024 02:34, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > >> As for unhelpful reviews, here's a good example "I was expecting more. >> It gets boring and repetitive very quickly. I lost interest after >> playing it for 2 hours..." Why bother writing that, how does it help >> anyone decide whether they should buy the game. I'll gladly see the back >> of them. > >That's not unhelpful. If it gets repetitive and boring in 2 hours, >that's very helpful information. Not if the person who wrote that has ADHD, and gets bored of everything in 2hrs or less. Without context it's extremely unhelpful information. The TL;DR people, generally not a font of wisdom or useful anything. >That's the concern I have. > >It's more a concern that 'unhelpful' is based on what people are tagging >'unhelpful' (basically a like/dislike button.) which will mean review >bombers are going to start down-voting any positive reviews, and fans >any negative. I imagine Valve will look for the unhelpful votes on useful reviews and block them from voting, or ban them entirely. Abuse the process, bye bye. Xocyll