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Looks like Valve is introducing a new review system to filter out "unhelpful" reviews
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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
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Does this mean “reviews that negatively affect profits” or does in mean genuinely removing irrelevant content?
It probably works based on whether users marking reviews as helpful or unhelpful and then uses some formula to remove the unhelpful ones. So it can be neither, but the key takeaway is that the users decide what ends up filtered out.
Thanks. That’s actually not too bad an idea. However, I’ll offer that it could lead to critics being silenced. Not necessarily out of nefarious purposes, but people love the downvote train sometimes.
For the same reasons that the YT algorithm is deliberately mysterious, Valve shouldn't be letting people know how to game systems like this.