Improve Curators & Their Reviews

[Vinz Clortho]

Following the excellent removal of clown bait reviews, I would like to see similar improvements made to the curator service on steam. This may or may not include de-listing of curators that write one word reviews, low effort reviews, troll reviews and who call their curator page things like "Crack Smoking Time" or "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Service".

[Start_Running]

Why?
Cyuratoprs are something you have to voluntarily sign up for.

[CANCELCULTURE]

But it is still VALUABLE data for Valve from those that may not know how to articulate their experience properly?

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/4326355263805583415

Curators and Group pages have a report button. that probably won't work, even if you provide details of how they break Steam's rules and Guidelines, Online Conduct or maybe even FTC regulations, laws.

Adding Funny and allowing people to give others points incentives for misleading, deceptive, bad behavior reviews wasn't a good idea imo.

Here is some feedback for Valve and it's community.

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/1006a_featuring-online-customer-reviews-508_0.pdf

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/advertising-marketing/endorsements-influencers-reviews

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/disclosures-101-social-media-influencers

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/08/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-rule-banning-fake-reviews-testimonials

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-report-suspicious-online-reviews

Way easier to just take complaints to the FTC, show them.


https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33093599-Bruce%2527s-Batcave/

“Batman recommends this game”

What say you Valve and FTC?

The Truth about Steam Curators...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSx3ez70Rlg - this guy say don't trust curators.

It's okay to sign up to review influence and endorse and be misleading, deceptive, fake meme as a Steam curator.

[Silenzeio]

A fair number of curators copy/paste the exact same review. Few pages are run by one guy who does that exclusively.

[löyly]

Publicado originalmente por Start_Running:

Why?
Cyuratoprs are something you have to voluntarily sign up for.

I've found it can be useful to check the page with curator recommendations for games that don't have (m)any regular reviews yet but that have given out review copies to some - or it could be useful again, if the signal:noise ratio wasn't so ridiculous.