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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: Steam's Revising Reviews
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:03:00 +0100
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On 16/08/2024 16:37, Justisaur wrote:
> 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.
> 

The problem I have with a review like that is it doesn't say anything 
beyond random person on Steam found the game boring. That doesn't tell 
me anything about whether I find it boring.

> 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.
> 

Yeh, hopefully Valve have thought about how they're going to ensure the 
system won't be abused and maybe they can even apply a similar policy to 
their discussion groups with people jumping on the band wagon because of 
some video that YouTube served to them.