Clean up the reviews please

[Moses]

When I look to purchase a game I read reviews like everyone else does. It's getting a bit annoying having to sift through all of the garbage reviews that have nothing to do with the actual game. We've all seen them:

- "Nobody reads these so I'll just say I'm gay"
- My friend bet me I couldn't get x number of likes
- Pet my cat


And many others that are just as idiotic and in no way help a developer sell their game, or a gamer determine whether they want to play a game. It's obviously attention starved children and I think it's time this is something people start getting banned for. If a certain number of their reviews get flagged, they can no longer post reviews. This is completely justified because their reviews aren't reviews anyways. So, my suggestion is a feature where we can flag these types of reviews and Steam can start doing something about them.

[Mailer]

You already can flag reviews as needed.
To see the flag button, you have to open up the full review, by clicking the banner that shows the thumb status and playtime on it.

[Moses]

Ah, okay. Thank you.

[William Shakesman]

Valve would much rather invent new rules or applications as such to ban actual reviews. Meme reviews do not violate said rules and cannot be banned. Valve has chosen the sort of reviews they prefer.

I don't like it any more than you do, but there is no sense fighting the wind.

[76561197960287930]

Publicado originalmente por Moses:

Clean up the reviews please
When I look to purchase a game I read reviews like everyone else does. It's getting a bit annoying having to sift through all of the garbage reviews that have nothing to do with the actual game. We've all seen them:

- "Nobody reads these so I'll just say I'm gay"
- My friend bet me I couldn't get x number of likes
- Pet my cat


And many others that are just as idiotic and in no way help a developer sell their game, or a gamer determine whether they want to play a game. It's obviously attention starved children and I think it's time this is something people start getting banned for. If a certain number of their reviews get flagged, they can no longer post reviews. This is completely justified because their reviews aren't reviews anyways. So, my suggestion is a feature where we can flag these types of reviews and Steam can start doing something about them.

It's totally fine to file complaints and report all those suspicious reviews to the FTC. https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-report-suspicious-online-reviews

The more people that do so to put outside pressure on Valve from federal consumer protections, to clean up their mess, the better.

[KalGimpa]

Publicado originalmente por 76561197960287930:

Publicado originalmente por Moses:

Clean up the reviews please
When I look to purchase a game I read reviews like everyone else does. It's getting a bit annoying having to sift through all of the garbage reviews that have nothing to do with the actual game. We've all seen them:

- "Nobody reads these so I'll just say I'm gay"
- My friend bet me I couldn't get x number of likes
- Pet my cat


And many others that are just as idiotic and in no way help a developer sell their game, or a gamer determine whether they want to play a game. It's obviously attention starved children and I think it's time this is something people start getting banned for. If a certain number of their reviews get flagged, they can no longer post reviews. This is completely justified because their reviews aren't reviews anyways. So, my suggestion is a feature where we can flag these types of reviews and Steam can start doing something about them.

It's totally fine to file complaints and report all those suspicious reviews to the FTC. https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-report-suspicious-online-reviews

The more people that do so to put outside pressure on Valve from federal consumer protections, to clean up their mess, the better.

that leads to a page that is for specific stores

this one is for scams

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-you-were-scammed

this

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/

is the link to just report

[Pipe]

filter by negative and you'll have easier time finding actual reviews

[Piston Smashed™]

Can't you just part the good from the bad reviews?

[MonkehMaster]

already said my piece in this thread i linked..

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4365752495736488970/#c4365752495737390765

in the end, positive reviews are beyond worthless, nothing but off topic spam that breaks rules, that inflates a games review score and valve wont ban them, unless they are vulgar/racist/etc... type of context, or it would hurt valves and the game devs income....

so reporting them is basically useless, your best bet is to down vote them all to help force them off the front page and then vote up the ones worth reading.

ie... positive reviews are filled with nothing but off topic spam, points farming, ascii spam, copy/pasta, meme, blank reviews, 1-2 word/letter/number/symbol reviews, or rage reviews raging because of negative reviews, etc.. etc..., which is a majority of the positive reviews.

the rest of the minuscule amount of positive reviews left, likely have in depth and detailed reviews, but arent seen due to the off topic spam.

all of which is not only spam, but off topic and more, all break rules and all should be removed, yet as mentioned, they only " ban the reviewer, hide the text", for ones that have very bad language/etc.. in it.

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side note: keep in mind, reviews you have already reported will show no flag icon, that also means the flagged review was never looked at, so your report was ignored or "lost", meaning you cant report it again.

if need be, you can take it to support and make it known the reports that dont get looked at, so they can be looked at, or in most cases, simply be cleared without even looking at the reported content.... at least giving you the option to report it again afterwards, but like mentioned valve doesnt care about fake reviews that break rules, its about the income at the end of the day.

[Hikari.ws]

I can't flag reviews.

Steam moderators had been hunting me ever since I denounced them from banning ppl who expose Steam as the store with most stolen accounts due to its lack of security. I asked for proper Security best practices, then I'm banned every time I post on forum. When I open ticket reporting the moderator that banned me, support bans me for 30x more time.

I had been banned even for upvoting a review!

So, yeah, I'm not adding reviews or flagging reviews anymore. There are more ethical stores with ethical moderators.

[Moses]

Sadly I think what's going on here is there's a particular generation that acts like 8 year olds, regardless of their actual age, and Steam is worried about holding that generation responsible for their behavior and possibly losing their money. So, they allow the behavior to continue. Profits over quality. It's nearing the point where there's almost no point in even having reviews. It would be nice if they allowed us to hide reviews which would immediately be replaced by another similar (positive or negative) review. Give us some kind of solution Steam, since your flagging option clearly hasn't deterred this kind of behavior.

[Crazy Tiger]

Publicado originalmente por Moses:

Sadly I think what's going on here is there's a particular generation that acts like 8 year olds, regardless of their actual age, and Steam is worried about holding that generation responsible for their behavior and possibly losing their money. So, they allow the behavior to continue. Profits over quality. It's nearing the point where there's almost no point in even having reviews. It would be nice if they allowed us to hide reviews which would immediately be replaced by another similar (positive or negative) review. Give us some kind of solution Steam, since your flagging option clearly hasn't deterred this kind of behavior.

Nothing to do about generation. such people exist in *all* age categories/generations.

[Pipe]

Publicado originalmente por Moses:

Give us some kind of solution Steam

like a filter that hides all short reviews
it may not help against those ascii spam reviews but it's still something

[Silenzeio]

Publicado originalmente por Hikari.ws:

the store with most stolen accounts due to its lack of security.

1) Citation needed on that claim.
2) Account security is on the user. Don't sign up for those skin betting sites or accept random friend reqs who immediately DM you sus links.

It's an idiot test.

[Moses]

Publicado originalmente por Crazy Tiger:

Publicado originalmente por Moses:

Sadly I think what's going on here is there's a particular generation that acts like 8 year olds, regardless of their actual age, and Steam is worried about holding that generation responsible for their behavior and possibly losing their money. So, they allow the behavior to continue. Profits over quality. It's nearing the point where there's almost no point in even having reviews. It would be nice if they allowed us to hide reviews which would immediately be replaced by another similar (positive or negative) review. Give us some kind of solution Steam, since your flagging option clearly hasn't deterred this kind of behavior.

Nothing to do about generation. such people exist in *all* age categories/generations.

If you're asking me to believe middle aged, or elderly, people are posting pictures of cats and other such memes, I'm going to have to disagree with you. I think it's fairly obvious which generation is responsible for this.