Steam needs to crack down on spam and meme reviews, desperately.

[Mantha]

I have seen so, so many spam reviews on games. Many of them only have one word, like "penis", and "yes", or they'll only say useless junk like "gud game" or "minigun go brrr", or you'll even see reviews that don't even say anything, simply having a single period, or an ASCII face, or something similar. It's become difficult to find useful and informative reviews amidst the sea of spam.
I'm sure everyone has seen plenty of reviews like this. Steam is utterly plagued with it. They're all breaking the "no spam" rule of Steam's rules and guidelines, but they're still there in the thousands. Just look at Cyberpunk 2077's reviews, to name only one example.
If Steam can implement something that scans reviews for "malicious content", a similar solution can be made for preventing spam reviews. Whatever the method, something desperately needs to be done about the junk reviews infesting every game's store page.

[Wolf Knight]

report the reviews that violate the rules and move on. the moderators will sort them out.

[eram]

1 of the badges got you xp for posting or updating a review so of course it's unmanageable. now. Dont waste your time reporting just ignore it.

[Mantha]

Автор сообщения: Wolf Knight

report the reviews that violate the rules and move on. the moderators will sort them out.

There are too many to report. And besides, not enough people give a damn to report them. Worse, many people will just rate them up because they find them funny.

[Chilled Nomi]

Report spam ones. Ignore meme ones.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Give them a 👎 and move on. Valve repeatedly has made a task during many events and even for the community badge to post a review. Most of the users who want the badges will just post spam.

[Garou]

Review are worthless at this point. You even have people lie about illnesses now to get awards.

[Sazzouu]

Автор сообщения: F35

You even have people lie about illnesses now to get awards.

I know which one you are refering to particularily...
You have any proofs for your assumption?

[Tito Shivan]

Автор сообщения: cSg|mc-Hotsauce

Give them a 👎 and move on.

That's how's supossed to happen. The up-downvote system should have sufficed to deal with these unhelpful reviews, as the properly helpful reviews were upvoted the spam-ish ones would sink to the bottom of the review pile just to never be seen.

However as every time you have people and the internet in a mix, things become weird. People ends up upvoting meme reviews 'for the lulz' or upvoting spam ones because of profit (Which ultimately killed Greenlight)
Same why we get the Barbie games tagged as 'Horror' or adult games as 'Family Friendly'

[Hank]

Автор сообщения: Mantha

I have seen so, so many spam reviews on games. Many of them only have one word, like "penis", and "yes", or they'll only say useless junk like "gud game" or "minigun go brrr", or you'll even see reviews that don't even say anything, simply having a single period, or an ASCII face, or something similar. It's become difficult to find useful and informative reviews amidst the sea of spam.
I'm sure everyone has seen plenty of reviews like this. Steam is utterly plagued with it. They're all breaking the "no spam" rule of Steam's rules and guidelines, but they're still there in the thousands. Just look at Cyberpunk 2077's reviews, to name only one example.
If Steam can implement something that scans reviews for "malicious content", a similar solution can be made for preventing spam reviews. Whatever the method, something desperately needs to be done about the junk reviews infesting every game's store page.

dang ol' THANK YOU. we can't even block serial abusers of this, forcing us to keep seeing their copied/pasted crap getting propped up by rewards from the same nitwits repeatedly all over the site. they know this ascii crap exists, would not be hard to add it all to blocked terms lists [my point is, I shouldn't have to do this myself], or give those of us over 12 years old an option to just turn it all tf off. Cyberpunk 2077 with addons is well over 100 bucks USD....

excuse me for wanting a genuine review of a near day's salary's priced game instead of a meme bragging about someone's "self abuse", or an ascii cat originally created by someone old enough to be their grandparent, from someone who likely neither buys their own games [it FEELS LIKE "why do they care about what they spend money on, or others", ALL FOR THE lolz] nor do they ever create any original content, look at their profiles, they repeatedly COPY AND PASTE these reviews on multiple games and dlc..... I thought that was against TOS....? this business makes A TON of money internationally, what other business would tolerate this behavior in such a marketplace...? there's spam forums and discord for that. you see curated and just fake reviews online, sure, but not this crap. it helps nobody.

[Pipe]

thankfully the negative reviews are usually safe from all that noise - just filter to them. people usually upvote actually helpful negative reviews
if the game is tremendously popular such as terraria though, then yeah you may start seeing a lot of useless ones such as "stop looking at negative reviews and buy the game"

with that being said... OH ♥♥♥♥ THIS THREAD WAS OLD BEFORE THE RECENT POST! I'M CONFUSED AHHHHHHH

[William Shakesman]

Properly written reviews can easily be found to violate rules based on the whims of whatever takes Steam Support that week. Meme reviews never will. As a result, it is clear Valve prefers the meme reviews over serious reviews. The purpose of a system is what it does.

Literally, you can make a page and a half serious, in depth review describing the game but because you opened with "I pirated this game and enjoyed it so much I bought it" you get nuked and can never again remake that review. I've reported people's excellent reviews and seen them nuked because of that. I GUARANTEE you you won't get ascii art spam or the 4000th divorced father review nuked in even twice the time.

There is zero justification to assume Valve even WANTS good reviews over meme reviews. That's simply not how their system is designed or implemented at any level and they have put zero effort into it since adding the "Funny" vote option.

If you don't believe me, go look at Ultrakill's store page and see how long it takes to find a review that describes the game.

I understand wanting the system to improve but Valve has made their position on the matter extremely clear. I've written more reviews than most people have played games and I know now Valve would prefer I have made them ASCII instead.

[Moses]

I just posted the same thing without seeing this first. It's a little disheartening that this post was from 2020, and Steam clearly has done nothing about these annoying attention seeking, irrelevant "reviews". I guess I'll just start flagging as many as I can.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Flag if ya want, if Steam won't stop asking for reviews then I'll give them one, whether someone reports the review or not means nothing to me as frankly either Steam stops asking for the review or they continue to and I'll just leave whatever I feel like as the review, nextime it may just be the troll face.

[Moses]

Автор сообщения: ❤ Succubus with BFG ❤

Flag if ya want, if Steam won't stop asking for reviews then I'll give them one, whether someone reports the review or not means nothing to me as frankly either Steam stops asking for the review or they continue to and I'll just leave whatever I feel like as the review, nextime it may just be the troll face.

You click one button "maybe later" and it's gone. Not that complicated.

[William Shakesman]

Автор сообщения: ❤ Succubus with BFG ❤

Flag if ya want, if Steam won't stop asking for reviews then I'll give them one, whether someone reports the review or not means nothing to me as frankly either Steam stops asking for the review or they continue to and I'll just leave whatever I feel like as the review, nextime it may just be the troll face.

Having done literally all I could for years to try to make the review system a better place only to see how Valve treats it, I now realize I was a fool and you have the correct approach I should have had all along. Post some really juicy ASCII for me.