Why do my disliked games show up as recommended to my friends?

[cool kid]

I was sitting by my brother during the steam summer sale 2019. He was looking at the game 16 bit trader. It turns out he was looking at it because it said I recommended it. He showed it to me, and I was all confused because I thought I disliked the game, and sure enough when he pulled up the review it was a dislike with a long explanation of all the game play I did not like. That is when I realized whether my review was a like or a dislike, the game would appear as recommended to my friends which to me seems like a way to confuse my friends for games I disliked. So my suggestion is this, to remove the generalized recommendation and replace it with "gamertag" recommends this game or "gamertag" does not recommend this game. Then before every sale, if a friend or more specifically multiple friends have reviews to be able to see a list of your friends clearly with the "gamertag" recommends this game or "gamertag" does not recommend this game. Then to take this a step further, if you can do this, instead of having words have the blue thumbs up sign or the red thumbs down sign to make it more visual to the users. Then to link the Blue thumbs up or Red thumbs up sign to the actual review automatically with code so that way it will be super accurate and players won't need to check the actual reviews.
EDIT: After some further review, I noticed some games are recommended to me by friends with 0 hours and 0 reviews. I don't think any game should show up as recommended by a friend if they did not review it. I still think friend game recommendations could add meaning to the steam store, say if the above suggestion was added. Then you can also make it more desirable for some steam users to review games. If friends know it will help their other friends make smart purchases, players may be more likely to write reviews if a game is extremely good or extremely bad. Then if like the last card drop was blocked behind a game review people may be more likely to write reviews as well.

[Xite >X< 👁️👁 🇦🇺]

He is saying, when you give a game a thumbs down review, your friends see you recommending it.

This just wrong if this is happening.

It should say you reviewed the game or you don't recommend it or nothing at all.

I would hate to think anyone has purchased a game, thinking I recommended it, when in fact I hated it or found it unplayable.

[cool kid]

Originally posted by Xite >X<:

He is saying, when you give a game a thumbs down review, your friends see you recommending it.

This just wrong if this is happening.

It should say you reviewed the game or you don't recommend it or nothing at all.

I would hate to think anyone has purchased a game, thinking I recommended it, when in fact I hated it or found it unplayable.

Yes, this is exactly what I am getting at. I did feel this when my brother was looking at that game. But, at the same time I also do not feel when I purchase games, that I really look at the reviews. It is an extra step, and I generally know what I want to buy.
I was thinking about it some more, and when I purchase games I do not ever look at reviews, and until today I did not realize how much of an apparent hassle it is with all the button clicks just to be able to see all of your friends reviews for a game. So I was thinking on the store page of any game, on the right in the box where it states X friends already own this game which includes a user image gamertag and hours played. What if a smaller box were added to the lower right of the users image that was red or blue which represented the thumbs up or thumbs down the player gave to the game. Or if the player did not review the game, then there could just be no box. Then below the number of hours played it could say, "recommends this game" or "does not recommend this game". It would be more clear that way. Then on the box or recommendation text, it could link directly to the review.
Then of course the biggest thing would be to make sure only games I have positively reviewed are recommended to other people in my friends list, and no negatively reviewed games are shown as recommended to any of my friends as what happened the other day.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Originally posted by cool kid:

Originally posted by Xite >X<:

He is saying, when you give a game a thumbs down review, your friends see you recommending it.

This just wrong if this is happening.

It should say you reviewed the game or you don't recommend it or nothing at all.

I would hate to think anyone has purchased a game, thinking I recommended it, when in fact I hated it or found it unplayable.

Yes, this is exactly what I am getting at. I did feel this when my brother was looking at that game. But, at the same time I also do not feel when I purchase games, that I really look at the reviews. It is an extra step, and I generally know what I want to buy.
I was thinking about it some more, and when I purchase games I do not ever look at reviews, and until today I did not realize how much of an apparent hassle it is with all the button clicks just to be able to see all of your friends reviews for a game. So I was thinking on the store page of any game, on the right in the box where it states X friends already own this game which includes a user image gamertag and hours played. What if a smaller box were added to the lower right of the users image that was red or blue which represented the thumbs up or thumbs down the player gave to the game. Or if the player did not review the game, then there could just be no box. Then below the number of hours played it could say, "recommends this game" or "does not recommend this game". It would be more clear that way. Then on the box or recommendation text, it could link directly to the review.
Then of course the biggest thing would be to make sure only games I have positively reviewed are recommended to other people in my friends list, and no negatively reviewed games are shown as recommended to any of my friends as what happened the other day.

Recommendation do not work off of reviews, they work off of what you have played, mostly.

So if your friends are seeing that, it is because you played the game, not because you reviewed it.

[cool kid]

Originally posted by AmsterdamHeavy:

Originally posted by cool kid:

Yes, this is exactly what I am getting at. I did feel this when my brother was looking at that game. But, at the same time I also do not feel when I purchase games, that I really look at the reviews. It is an extra step, and I generally know what I want to buy.
I was thinking about it some more, and when I purchase games I do not ever look at reviews, and until today I did not realize how much of an apparent hassle it is with all the button clicks just to be able to see all of your friends reviews for a game. So I was thinking on the store page of any game, on the right in the box where it states X friends already own this game which includes a user image gamertag and hours played. What if a smaller box were added to the lower right of the users image that was red or blue which represented the thumbs up or thumbs down the player gave to the game. Or if the player did not review the game, then there could just be no box. Then below the number of hours played it could say, "recommends this game" or "does not recommend this game". It would be more clear that way. Then on the box or recommendation text, it could link directly to the review.
Then of course the biggest thing would be to make sure only games I have positively reviewed are recommended to other people in my friends list, and no negatively reviewed games are shown as recommended to any of my friends as what happened the other day.

Recommendation do not work off of reviews, they work off of what you have played, mostly.

So if your friends are seeing that, it is because you played the game, not because you reviewed it.

You are not thinking big picture. While this may be the current state, I am suggesting it should be changed. The change should remove any confusion and sales based on the reputation of others. If I go to the featured tab and look at recommended games and look a few pages in, there are many games that are "recommended" by my friends where my friends have 0 hours in the game and no reviews at all. If you think about the verbage steam is using, and do not think about what is currently there, but what could be there, then we can start coming up with solutions to this problem. Just like the first poster, you are not understanding the point of this post, neither do I think you are actually reading all the material and ideas.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

I dont disagree. The use of the word "recommended" in different places on Steam has different contexts.

Consistency matters, of course.