We need much larger curator ignore/follow limits

[Tyrian Mollusk]

We can thumb seemingly every review of every game on Steam. I've thumbed a lot of reviews, but I've never hit a limit.

We can wishlist, follow, and ignore who knows how many games. Let's just say "a lot".

My Steam inventory has some 846 things, most of which pretty much don't and never will matter, with more added every year.

Yet, despite all this data Steam tracks per user, we can only follow or ignore a COMBINED total of exactly one hundred curators.

Now, sure, a 100 followed curators limit, ok, that's reasonable enough even if it makes no sense next to the above data points, but we need to be able to ignore a lot of curators to do much with it at all, and we should NOT be paying for those ignores out of our precious slots for curators we actually find helpful. There are just so many valueless, redundant, or annoying curators that need to be hidden. Even looking for new curators is painful because of how many clutter curators there are, which we could so easily hide.

Ignoring games helps improve browsing the Steam store. We really need that kind of culling for Steam curators, too, and it makes no sense that we're denied such a simple thing by such tiny, incredibly arbitrary limits, on top of pooling follows and ignores together.

[DavidWG]

So, this is why I get errors when ignoring shovelware devs. Rotten place. Getting flooded with crap, they trick themselves back to visibility and I have limited possibilities to clean my feed...

[Start_Running]

If you need more than 100 then you're better off just borwsing the lists of curators you do like rather than the general store.

[DavidWG]

Probably. Still frustrating, though. The algorithm is also created by trolls or combined with troll-AI. The more you sort out, the more aggressive other crap is getting pushed, adressing exactly those things that triggered you to ignore other shovelware in the first place.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by DavidWG:

Probably. Still frustrating, though. The algorithm is also created by trolls or combined with troll-AI. The more you sort out, the more aggressive other crap is getting pushed, adressing exactly those things that triggered you to ignore other shovelware in the first place.

This is what happens when you keep telling it what you don't want as opposed to what you do want. The more stuff you ignore the harder it is fo the AI to pick out a data based pattern.

I myself have the opposite problem. The system has gotten waaay too go at showing me stuff I'm interested in.

I wonder if Valve should have a 'More" Button