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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.

Xocyll