Reviews sort by agegroup

[Rød Pølse]

I suggest that Steam adds an option in the reviews where you can sort by agegroup. Im 38 years old and many of the very well rated games are out of my interest (GTAV) (CSGO) and would love to see what my own age group like.

[iceicewater]

This I would like to see.

I would like to filter the reviews of children such like "AWESOME FTW!", "BEST GAME EVER!", and all other caps lock style reviews.

This could however by bypassed by just entering a false birthday. Maybe more drastic measures like credit card verification or something would help a lot.

[The End]

Would be a waste of effort to implement it, most people would lie about their age.

Verification by CC would not be of any help, young gamers often use parents CC.

Make it optional to provide age, people would choose to not state age, try to force people to state age and prove it, to be able to post a review would raise a lot of drama on the forums.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by 🎄Rockon🎄:

Would be a waste of effort to implement it, most people would lie about their age.

Verification by CC would not be of any help, young gamers often use parents CC.

Make it optional to provide age, people would choose to not state age, try to force people to state age and prove it, to be able to post a review would raise a lot of drama on the forums.

Collecting and displaying age data would also count as a breach of privacy in many countries.

[Gus the Crocodile]

I think it's an interesting idea. Sure, some people would lie about their age; I have no idea how many or to what degree it would affect the usefulness of the feature. But, you know, some people will lie about the rest of the review too. I'd be interested to see how it came out.

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Collecting and displaying age data would also count as a breach of privacy in many countries.

I don't know which countries you're talking about, but Steam is already set up to display things differently in different regions, so that's not really a problem, is it?

If you mean collecting it involuntarily, sure, that'd be dodgy as hell. But otherwise, I mean, Steam already has a "real name" field on the profile, and I'm pretty sure that's more personally-identifying than your age. Can't be that big a deal as long as it's voluntary.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Gus the Crocodile:

I think it's an interesting idea. Sure, some people would lie about their age; I have no idea how many or to what degree it would affect the usefulness of the feature. But, you know, some people will lie about the rest of the review too. I'd be interested to see how it came out.

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Collecting and displaying age data would also count as a breach of privacy in many countries.

I don't know which countries you're talking about, but Steam is already set up to display things differently in different regions, so that's not really a problem, is it?

If you mean collecting it involuntarily, sure, that'd be dodgy as hell. But otherwise, I mean, Steam already has a "real name" field on the profile, and I'm pretty sure that's more personally-identifying than your age. Can't be that big a deal as long as it's voluntary.

And in just about all regions the display of someone's age is considered a privacy breach. The sort by age thing, can allow a third party to deduce someone's given age.


And again as others have pointed out. it'd pretty much be the honor system. Steam has no way of verifying anyone's age beyond asking the person.

[Gus the Crocodile]

I can set my age to public on Facebook - are you suggesting that's illegal in "just about all regions"?

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good game

[cinedine]

The average gamer is about 30 years old. So the reviews should somehow reflect that.
However, taste is a personal thing. I know many people who grew up in the 80s and early 90s who do like CS:GO and GTA V. You not liking things has less to do with age but more with yourself.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Gus the Crocodile:

I can set my age to public on Facebook - are you suggesting that's illegal in "just about all regions"?

If you can't see the difference between the two situations it's not worth debating with you.

[Gus the Crocodile]

I can't see inside your head to see how you've conceptualised these two situations, so I can't really tell what it is you think I'm failing to see. If you're thinking that the Steam situation is Valve displaying people's ages (or allowing people to infer it through searching, which as you rightly point out is essentially the same thing) without notifying users that their age will be publically accessible that way, then I would absolutely agree, that goes in my "dodgy as hell" pile and it probably does contravene all sorts of legislation in various places.

But that hasn't been set out; it isn't the only way forward. The suggestion isn't to report people's ages without permission. The suggestion is just that the feature exists, in some form. There are ways it could be implemented that would be serious privacy breaches, yes, but there are always ways it could be implemented that aren't.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Gus the Crocodile:

I can't see inside your head to see how you've conceptualised these two situations, so I can't really tell what it is you think I'm failing to see.

You can't see period.

But that hasn't been set out; it isn't the only way forward. The suggestion isn't to report people's ages without permission. The suggestion is just that the feature exists, in some form. There are ways it could be implemented that would be serious privacy breaches, yes, but there are always ways it could be implemented that aren't.

There is only one way and that, funnily enough would render the system useless for the OP's purposes. You either asign age ranges, which would keep you from sussing the person's age. But the wider the range the less useful the information becomes.

This also leaves the biggest problem. See, just abhout every other filtering option is something valve can verify on some level. They can never verify age.

[𝕙.𝕓𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕒𝕤]

The assumption that age influences review quality or your taste in games is a little stretched.
I still play GTA V from time to time and am well above the 'average age of gamers'. Maybe it's
just me staying infantile?

One liners can express your sentiment about a game as is demonstrated here

http://steamcommunity.com/id/hbarkas/recommended/319630/

written by yours truly and voted helpful by 1716 of 1851 people.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by h.barkas:

The assumption that age influences review quality or your taste in games is a little stretched.
I still play GTA V from time to time and am well above the 'average age of gamers'. Maybe it's
just me staying infantile?

One liners can express your sentiment about a game as is demonstrated here

http://steamcommunity.com/id/hbarkas/recommended/319630/

written by yours truly and voted helpful by 1716 of 1851 people.

That's actually a good one-liner.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Then 99% of all user would be over 100 years old since most enter 1/1/1900 as their date of birth.

[Gus the Crocodile]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

You can't see period.

Help, someone get me to the burns ward, this is third degree.

Originally posted by Start_Running:

There is only one way and that, funnily enough would render the system useless for the OP's purposes. You either asign age ranges, which would keep you from sussing the person's age. But the wider the range the less useful the information becomes.

When I say there are multiple ways to do it, I'm not talking about ways to set up the filter option itself - there are countless ways to do that. Rather, the important factor is informed consent. When I set my age to public on Facebook, I am making the choice to do so, which is why it's okay. I could, similarly, make an informed choice to allow Steam to publically associate my age with my reviews. That is then not a privacy breach, it is me choosing to publish information.

Originally posted by Start_Running:

This also leaves the biggest problem. See, just abhout every other filtering option is something valve can verify on some level. They can never verify age.

You don't need to keep repeating this point to me, I explicitly acknowledged it in my first post here.