"comments are disabled for this lying-ass review"

[=Snappy=]

steam, you should never have changed comments to default to off.

there is no justice vs. the many extremely misguided reviews on steam. marking as "not helpful" is not enough. ppl need to be checked on their fake news.

[cinedine]

Oh look, another user making a good point for having comments off by default.

[=Snappy=]

who's this kid?^^

my reviews are top-notch and my comments are top-notch. you, meanwhile, have the private profile cuz all u do is troll ppls' valid threads. good day.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

It wouldn't matter if they were default on since people can and will delete comments anyways.

[=Snappy=]

that's a small tendency but not a certainty. obviously there are plenty of negative review comments in existence from the days before this change was made which the reviewers never deleted. it would matter.

i've posted many critical comments of inaccurate (or otherwise terrible) reviews and can only recall one case where the person kept deleting my comments. after 3-4 times of me coming back and telling them politely that "wishing" wasn't going to solve their tech support issues (or ignorance) they finally "gave up" and actually agreed w/ what i was saying. so, that one ended in a positive outcome. it did matter. ...and all the rest -- where i didn't get into edit wars w/ the original poster, can be considered a success also, because I corrected the misinformation that the OP was spreading and as far as i know my informational comments are visible to this day..

partially because: some people, even when they are ignorant and wrong, know that on some level and quickly give up arguing for their ignorant, wrong points.

again, this is about justice. ppl should not be allowed to post reviews that say "game doesn't do X" when the game sure as hell does do X but they are just an idiot who doesn't know how to correctly operate it.

steam is a broken social media platform while these lies are allowed to be spread.

[76561198407601200]

Reviews are largely just an opinion on the game. There are many reviews both on steam and outside. One review probably isn't going to sway a massive amount of people.

[Start_Running]

You notice how he exclude sto actually link to the review. And yeah OP. the fact that people like yourself can no longer willfully harrass people that expouse different opinions than yourself.. is probably one of the best things steam has done in a while.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by =Snappy=:

who's this kid?^^

my reviews are top-notch and my comments are top-notch. you, meanwhile, have the private profile cuz all u do is troll ppls' valid threads. good day.

First off, cool your jets buddy.

It's up to the review owner if they want or not to interact with the rest of the community about their review. As every privacy setting it's defaulted to private as it should.

People are entitled to an opinion. People are also entitled to have a wrong opinion.
You can always downvote reviews, which will make them sink down if they're not helpful or wrong.

[wuddih]

if you dont like a review, skip it, read the next one. it is not like one review matters and it is not anyones sensible task to debunk crappy reviews.

[obliviondoll]

Honestly, I prefer to have comments on for my reviews.

I think it's sensible (and reasonable) to have "comments disabled" as the default setting, but it should be an OPTIONAL SETTING that users can adjust on their account. I'd love to *NOT* have to click a button to allow comments on every review I post. Being able to toggle this on for all my reviews in my preferences would be nice. Every review a random who didn't check the menu posts? Cool, comments disabled. But if, like me, you prefer to have them on, you can set that as your default setting and all your reviews post with comments enabled unless you manually disable.

Also, if a review is actually lying (as in deliberately includes provably false information) and the comments are turned off, there's a REPORT BUTTON for that. Report it as a fraudulent review. That is a violation of terms of use. Let people know - if they let you - that their information is incorrect. If they don't provide a valid way to approach them, report the review for misrepresenting the product.

[The Chicagoan]

Originally posted by =Snappy=:

steam, you should never have changed comments to default to off.

there is no justice vs. the many extremely misguided reviews on steam. marking as "not helpful" is not enough. ppl need to be checked on their fake news.

It's their opinion on what they feel, some people don't like the game and don't really elaborate why they hate the game. You can't change the fact that they selected the comments off. Sure, it's off by default. But it can be enabled. Some people just don't want people to reply to their reviews.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by obliviondoll:

I think it's sensible (and reasonable) to have "comments disabled" as the default setting, but it should be an OPTIONAL SETTING that users can adjust on their account. I'd love to *NOT* have to click a button to allow comments on every review I post. Being able to toggle this on for all my reviews in my preferences would be nice. Every review a random who didn't check the menu posts? Cool, comments disabled. But if, like me, you prefer to have them on, you can set that as your default setting and all your reviews post with comments enabled unless you manually disable.

Yeah, it has been mentioned before that a global toggle would be nice. Comments off per default is the way it should be, but people like you should only have to change their settings once.

[Thermal Lance]

Yeah, because "mob justice" clearly is the best kind of justice. Report the review and move on.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Bad necro aside, he has a few reviews locked with no comments (but was just probably a misclick, and didn't see it) but thought it was funny but who is to decide whether or not something is wrong or misguided in a review that is obviously biased towards the one that wrote it.

Reviews have always been a bad source of information on anything, you can see that in many different ways and platforms from movies, music, and product purchases from stores to amazon, etc. Then you have the ones in charge that can just delete what they want and manipulate the stats as we've seen with The Rings of Power and Amazon.

It just comes down to downvoting the review and moving on.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

I mean I have all my reviews comments disabled, Its my feelings on a product, I dont see why I need to debate with anyone on my personal views on something.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Lustrous Spirit:

I mean I have all my reviews comments disabled, Its my feelings on a product, I dont see why I need to debate with anyone on my personal views on something.

Do you make honest reviews of products, and not award-bait meme or troll reviews?