Steam is going to reorganize game reviews?

[ShuFlngPu]

I saw in a YT video that steam is going to make authoritative decisions regarding what is and is not helpful when showing people reviews about a game and I have a few qualms with this...

"One word answers will be moved below others."
This is a terrible decision. A single word can be enough for me to know if I will purchase a game.
"Tencent" for one and there are others. Steam choosing to say this is an 'unhelpful comment' is erronious and false. What steam might think isnt relevant, is to gamers and this is a terrible take.
"Sweet Baby INC." is another.

"Jokes and Humorous comments will be moved below others."
Also a terrible take. Some games have deep communities with in-jokes and depriving others of this culture, by default is also a terrible take.

These are ok options to have but shouldnt be on by default. Steam choosing what is and is not "helpful when choosing wether to purchase a game" is simply just Steam taking power away from the players- directly against its stated goals. Steam is choosing what information is helpful. This is purely an opinion. What steam finds to be unhelpful, I find extremely helpful it seems.

Steam, reconsider these positions. Leave comments alone and the way they are. You DO NOT and SHOULD NOT tell consumers what is and is not valid information for making a decision unless said information is misleading or false.

-=EDIT=-
Im not talking about obviously offensive, off-topic, slanderous posts that steam is filled with.
I think most of us can agree those can go.
However steam already has added extra rules to remove those comments.
My issue here and the subject I want to start community discussion on is this;
What is acceptable to us as a community and what is not?
Steam could be of the opinion that "tencent" has nothing to do with a person buying a game but I know many against said company would disagree.
The point with that is someone, somewhere is going to have to make a judgement call, based PURELY on ONE persons opinion and that means, this method is GOING to have errors, let alone implementation of AI on a flawed system and thats my opinion.
I hope this clarification helps.
---Thor's channel. I think if you google "New steam comment changes PirateSoftware" itll pop up. (Pls dont hate me for that name steam. Its genuinely nothing against the rules. xD)

[KrakenGreywolf]

I am in favor of this change. The joke/meme posts get annoying fast, especially once you’ve seen the same “My wife and I were in a bad place and-“ or something similar copy/pasted in multiple game review sections. And someone just saying “Denuvo” for example doesn’t help me nearly as much as “This game has Denuvo, and also is bad because: (insert reasons here-from game performance/mechanics/terrible story/annoying characters/broken achievements/doesn’t run well with certain graphics cards/on Steam Deck, etc).

Even when I decided not to buy Disco Elysium on a deep sale, it wasn’t the “Great game, don’t buy it.” reviews that deterred me-it was the ones that went in depth about the situation with who currently owned the rights to the game and how the original team had been treated.

I like it when people at least put a little effort into their reviews. I put effort into mine.

[Doctor Zalgo]

Escrito originalmente por Panos.west:

"One word answers will be moved below others."
This is a terrible decision. A single word can be enough for me to know if I will purchase a game.
"Tencent" for one and there are others.

Assuming they're using AI rather than paying someone minimum wage to sort reviews:
One word reviews will only be moved below others if enough players rate them as unhelpful to teach the AI that one word reviews are unhelpful in general.

Gamers will decide what reviews are helpful and the AI will enact that decision.