Get rid of the Jester icon and "this review is funny" option

[Jaegeras]

I mean honestly, on top of the unhelpful, meme and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reviews that I see in general for a number of games. The last thing reviews needed are these two and why? Because there's going to be people going around with a level of malice behind some of the actions that they do. You can give an honest review that's constructive criticism, someone finds it funny. They also toss a jester icon on it.

Does Valve at all care about reviewing in general? No, they don't. But they kinda should if it's going to be there at all as a feature. Epic Games has it right by not having user reviews, is because of the childish mentality numerous Steam users has in chipping at and degrading the value of what a review is supposed to be.

A review is supposed to be a guiding beacon to suggest to someone whether or not a game is worth getting. But it just seems like, as with everything online, to be taken as some opinion which it is. Except, if I've learned anything from the internet at all, is that people don't like opposing opinions. They just want circlejerks and validation.

You mind as well not have a reviewing section at all, Valve. It's being treated as a toy.

[Dedzju]

It's not awards that bother ppl so badly, it is the pointsss!! Haha... "Award for award", that's the condition 'cause supposedly these points equal real money... Rarely I see a profile who's given out way more awards than received. My G, the avarice and all-around mentality... Hard to digest. Or: "Will you sign my profile, in return I'll rate & fave your artwork or contribution or sign yours". Haha these kids

[Veliopag]

Diposting pertama kali oleh AlterEgo45:

On the other side I've seen a lot of reviews, not forum posts but reviews, where they crap all over the game and still give it a thumbs up. I get people want to be nice but what use is that?

People are trying to give feedback to game Developers in this way, in the hope that they will read it.
There are legitimate concerns that a negative review will not be read at all, as it will be count as "toxic hating or trolling". In addition, if the rating of the game is low, there is a risk that the Developers just prefer abandon the game.

[Olwart]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dedzjuke:

Rarely I see a profile who's given out way more awards than received.

This would be self-explanatory for you, if you just looked at any distribution of wealth in society charts. Many people also receive awards for their output like comments, reviews or actual content, which also explains the difference in awards given/received.

[my new friend]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dedzjuke:

Rarely I see a profile who's given out way more awards than received.

A lot of people don't have money to spend to get points, only 1/3 the points used when awarding is actually given to the awarded and there is the ever present points shop with all its shiny gifs that people must spend their points on.

[Start_Running]

Diposting pertama kali oleh my new friend:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dedzjuke:

Rarely I see a profile who's given out way more awards than received.

A lot of people don't have money to spend to get points, only 1/3 the points used when awarding is actually given to the awarded and there is the ever present points shop with all its shiny gifs that people must spend their points on.

That depends.
Contribute to the communitty with meaningful discussions, and user generated content and you will indeed earyn a nice stack of points.

70% of the points I've earned come from my content, not my purchases.

[my new friend]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Start_Running:

Diposting pertama kali oleh my new friend:

A lot of people don't have money to spend to get points, only 1/3 the points used when awarding is actually given to the awarded and there is the ever present points shop with all its shiny gifs that people must spend their points on.

That depends.
Contribute to the communitty with meaningful discussions, and user generated content and you will indeed earyn a nice stack of points.

70% of the points I've earned come from my content, not my purchases.

That's what I'm saying. Most of their points from farming awards are being used on the points shop and less is being awarded to others.

[Angel]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dedzjuke:

Rarely I see a profile who's given out way more awards than received.

I agree and see the same thing. It happens, but it's very rare.
Some users have like 800 awards received, 25 if not less, given.

[Angel]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Start_Running:

Contribute to the community with meaningful discussions, and user generated content and you will indeed earn a nice stack of points.

I agree with you but... I wrote helpful guides (I deleted them since), contributed to discussions, and... I rarely receive anything.

[Start_Running]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Angel:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Start_Running:

Contribute to the community with meaningful discussions, and user generated content and you will indeed earn a nice stack of points.

I agree with you but... I wrote helpful guides (I deleted them since), contributed to discussions, and... I rarely receive anything.

Maybe they weren't as helpful as you thought?

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

Diposting pertama kali oleh Angel:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Start_Running:

Contribute to the community with meaningful discussions, and user generated content and you will indeed earn a nice stack of points.

I agree with you but... I wrote helpful guides (I deleted them since), contributed to discussions, and... I rarely receive anything.

That's because being helpful hardly yields rewards, being stupid, memes, pron, spam do on the other hand get far more awards and this awards system just exacerbated the issues and brought them to light even more (even tho it was painfully obvious this is how it always worked, but worse now).

Diposting pertama kali oleh Angel:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dedzjuke:

Rarely I see a profile who's given out way more awards than received.

I agree and see the same thing. It happens, but it's very rare.
Some users have like 800 awards received, 25 if not less, given.

People are not obligated to give out awards, I know people that have 10-50k+ awards and do hardly anything with them or the points.

[Start_Running]

Diposting pertama kali oleh B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Angel:

I agree with you but... I wrote helpful guides (I deleted them since), contributed to discussions, and... I rarely receive anything.

That's because being helpful hardly yields rewards, being stupid, memes, pron, spam do on the other hand get far more awards and this awards system just exacerbated the issues and brought them to light even more (even tho it was painfully obvious this is how it always worked, but worse now).

Speak for yourself.

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

Diposting pertama kali oleh Start_Running:

Diposting pertama kali oleh B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

That's because being helpful hardly yields rewards, being stupid, memes, pron, spam do on the other hand get far more awards and this awards system just exacerbated the issues and brought them to light even more (even tho it was painfully obvious this is how it always worked, but worse now).

Speak for yourself.

It's true if you want to believe it or not and I said "hardly" which means there are exceptions.

[Dedzju]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Olwart:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dedzjuke:

Rarely I see a profile who's given out way more awards than received.

This would be self-explanatory for you, if you just looked at any distribution of wealth in society charts. Many people also receive awards for their output like comments, reviews or actual content, which also explains the difference in awards given/received.

I disagree on the point you 're trying to make. There's simply a gargantuan amount of content on Steam, it's amazing and one can give out tons of points for that matter if I understand what you were saying there ofc.

[Angel]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Start_Running:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Angel:

I agree with you but... I wrote helpful guides (I deleted them since), contributed to discussions, and... I rarely receive anything.

Maybe they weren't as helpful as you thought?

Maybe, but then I'd like someone explain to me how a meme guide is in any way helpful.

Diposting pertama kali oleh B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Angel:

I agree with you but... I wrote helpful guides (I deleted them since), contributed to discussions, and... I rarely receive anything.

That's because being helpful hardly yields rewards, being stupid, memes, pron, spam do on the other hand get far more awards and this awards system just exacerbated the issues and brought them to light even more (even tho it was painfully obvious this is how it always worked, but worse now).

I completely agree.

[Start_Running]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Angel:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Start_Running:

Maybe they weren't as helpful as you thought?

Maybe, but then I'd like someone explain to me how a meme guide is in any way helpful.

Laughter. It's a very useful thing.
But you're falling into the trap of envy there.