Add option to Remove my rating from a review

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Hello,

I rated a review and I want to remove my rating from that review.
Not to change it from yes to no, or from no to yes.
Just to remove it completely, to leave that comment without my review.

Thanks

[Start_Running]

You can delete the review entirely to remove it or uyou can edit review and change the text and the yes or no.

You cannot eave the comment without a review.. that would be just useless to anyone.

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I was reffering to my rating "Yes" or "No" to other reviews, not to my own review.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by simiid:

I was reffering to my rating "Yes" or "No" to other reviews, not to my own review.

You can go back to that review and click yes or no to change it to whatever, I also believe you can delete any comments you make.

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For example I enter a game page and I scroll down to user reviews, and there I've found one which I like for example:

"This game is not worth it." - Rate: "Yes" - "No" and I rate it Yes.

But after playing the game I change my mind, and I want to entirely remove my rate for that review. Not to change it from Yes to No.
To completly remove my rating, to leave that review without my rate, to have less ratings if it's not worth it. Rating it from yes to no, will still be rated and increase it's position in top viewing.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by simiid:

For example I enter a game page and I scroll down to user reviews, and there I've found one which I like for example:

"This game is not worth it." - Rate: "Yes" - "No" and I rate it Yes.

But after playing the game I change my mind, and I want to entirely remove my rate for that review. Not to change it from Yes to No.
To completly remove my rating, to leave that review without my rate, to have less ratings if it's not worth it. Rating it from yes to no, will still be rated and increase it's position in top viewing.

Well your rating of other reviews is not a rating of the game. and all you're saying is if you found that review helpful to your purchase decision.. If The yes or no just affects that review's ranking.

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Yes, you are right, and if I rate a review with yes or no, I want to be able to un-rate that review at a later time if I find it not concludent.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by simiid:

Yes, you are right, and if I rate a review with yes or no, I want to be able to un-rate that review at a later time if I find it not concludent.

And why care? I mean really. Sure it's something they could add but it'd be a waste of time.. Best option is ito just not vote on reviews at all. Once you vote you have to decide whether it was helpful or unhelpful. pick one if you can't then don't if you can't decide the leave it as it is.

[JPMcMillen]

Maybe the Steam review system needs a 'Meh' option. For games that fans of the genere or subject matter would like, but non fans might want to take a pass on.

For example, way back on the original XBox there were two brawler type games based on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. If you're a fan of brawlers or Buffy, the games were probably worth getting. For others, not so much.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by JPMcMillen:

Maybe the Steam review system needs a 'Meh' option. For games that fans of the genere or subject matter would like, but non fans might want to take a pass on.

Been discussed already. Meh serves no real pupose. If you're meh, just say nothing. Because that's what Meh really amounts to.

For example, way back on the original XBox there were two brawler type games based on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. If you're a fan of brawlers or Buffy, the games were probably worth getting. For others, not so much.

And thusly you giv it a yes or a no based on ywhere you stand with that ceveat. If you enjoy X then You will like this.

[Gus the Crocodile]

Originally posted by Start_Running:

And why care?

I think you've just solved the suggestions forum, congrats! If everyone just stops caring, Valve don't need to make any changes to Steam! Whew, that sure saved some trouble.

I always thought this was a bug in the interface - I can un-favourite things on Twitter, un-like things on Facebook etc, but I can't un-vote a Steam review. I'd like it changed too.

[Lily]

While it wouldn't hurt to have the option to unvote, neither is it particularly necessary. A review is either helpful or it isn't. A or not A. If you changed your mind on your original vote, why not vote the other way?

If it helps you feel better about downvoting it, a one sentence review like in your example really isn't all that helpful.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Gus the Crocodile:

Originally posted by Start_Running:

And why care?

I think you've just solved the suggestions forum, congrats! If everyone just stops caring, Valve don't need to make any changes to Steam! Whew, that sure saved some trouble.

Blowing things out of proortion as usual. WHat we have here is a user wanting to take back a review he left of someone else's review... strictly speaking. It doesn't matter enough. Reverse your rating if you want or just leave it be. Heck no one but you knows you voted for the review anyway. Not even the person who wrote the review.

I always thought this was a bug in the interface - I can un-favourite things on Twitter, un-like things on Facebook etc, but I can't un-vote a Steam review. I'd like it changed too.

You can negate your vote however.

[Gus the Crocodile]

Blowing things out of proportion was reaching for something judgemental and dismissive like "why care?" in response to a perfectly polite and harmless suggestion. I'm just sticking to the theme.

Yes, what we have here is a user wanting to take back what we might call "a review of a review", that's absolutely true. In that context, can we note that you can "take back" a review? Perhaps Valve shouldn't have bothered implementing that though, because why care? It's not important enough. People can just leave it be.

Does that go some way to illustrating how hollow those phrases sound? Look, perhaps you didn't mean "why care?" to carry the attitude that it did when I read it. Perhaps it was an earnest attempt to reach out and understand another human being. In that case I would simply advise keeping in mind that it does (or at least can, with some people) carry those tones, and suggest not following it up with insights like "I mean really" that make it sound like you intend the unfortunate rhetorical implication (roughly, "there is no reason for you to care") rather than the honest question, and dismissals like calling their suggestion a waste of time. "Why care?" usually comes across as simply a way to dress up "I don't care" to sound more notable than it is.

You don't have to think the suggestion is important. If you'd have said it's a small, low-priority suggestion I think we all would have agreed; it absolutely is. But that's not a problem. You don't just not implement small suggestions simply because there are bigger ones; not everything has to be urgent. All I'm asking is for people to, if not be nice, then not be unnecessarily rude.

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[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Being able to do this for one's own review would be a workaround to making a way to post a review without needing to specify positive or negative, so while this is still a roundabout method to accomplishing this, it'd be better than the status quo where you just can't do that.

Being able to do this for one's rating of another's review would still be useful, albeit less impactful.

Originally posted by Start_Running:

You can delete the review entirely to remove it or uyou can edit review and change the text and the yes or no.

You cannot eave the comment without a review.. that would be just useless to anyone.

No, a review without a positive or negative rating would be useful to quite a lot of people, as has been shown in thread after thread requesting the ability to post a review without rating the product positive or negative.

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Originally posted by JPMcMillen:

Maybe the Steam review system needs a 'Meh' option. For games that fans of the genere or subject matter would like, but non fans might want to take a pass on.

Been discussed already. Meh serves no real pupose. If you're meh, just say nothing. Because that's what Meh really amounts to.

So people could write a ton of details about a game and if their overall opinion is "meh" you consider everything they've written to "amount to nothing"?