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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: Steam's Revising Reviews
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:02:28 +0100
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On 20/08/2024 15:55, Justisaur wrote:
> On 8/18/2024 9:15 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 14:22:49 -0000 (UTC), rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
>> (Ross Ridge) wrote:
> F
>> Similar here. I think that there's also a feeling of (unstated)
>> obligation when people review a game. After playing it a while, Steam
>> says, "Hey, you've played this game for 16 hours, wanna share your
>> opinion?" and then gives you a thumbs up/thumbs down option, and a
>> heck of a lot of white space beneath that to write something. So they
>> write something, but for whatever reason they don't say anything
>> substantial.
> 
> I just realized why "it gud" responses are all over.  You can't submit 
> just a thumbs up or thumbs down.  You have to put something in that 
> white space. I was going to give a thumbs up to EDF 6, but I have to 
> write something, that's going to take a good bit of time to write 
> something substantial enough to satisfy everyone here.  I'd rather be 
> playing it, or doing something else, so I'm leaving it without a like/ 
> dislike for now.
> 

This is a tricky one as just having a thumbs up/down can be useful 
information but it's also opens a very low bar to abuse and after seeing 
the player reporting system in World of Tanks* I have very little trust 
that there aren't enough people who will do that making the overall 
rating rather meaningless.

Possibly a way to alleviate that problem is it has to be a verified 
purchase and X amount of game hours played.

*The most infamous part of that was having a section of players, 
commonly the good ones, reporting people who player artillery as they 
found it funny to get them banned. Strangely enough this abuse became 
awful behaviour and had to be stopped when players retaliated by 
reporting good players just for being good.

The end result was that the reporting system was changed so it was in 
effect a placebo. You've gotta love gamers.