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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 19:58:51 -0500
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Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 8/16/2024 11:32 AM, Xocyll wrote:
>> Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> 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.
>>
> I suspect you may be unduly optimistic there.  It is becoming more and 
> more blatant that online services don't CARE what kind of use is made of 
> their services as long as there is LOTS of use of their services. 
> Conflict attracts views.

I'm worried that there will be excessive pruning of the reviews.  Can 
you even make a joke in what you write without someone misunderstanding 
and axing it?  There's lots of extremely rigid group leaders on Facebook 
mirthless and cruel that abuse their power.  On Facebook, one of the 
major concerns a powermonger has is gaining control of a group and 
exploiting it.  There's some fun to it, and kingdom of loathing did it 
well.  I inherited a massive fortune in armor and weapons, but Facebook 
and Steam are closer to real life where there seems to be a need to 
hammer down any nail that stands up.  It could cause a revolt!