LLM to auto sort comments

[DeadPixelRefund]

The quality of comments in Steam game forums has been declining for years, and we all know why. It's now a fact that when a new game releases, you'll get the obligatory: "how woke is it," "omg female character," "omg they used AI," etc, comprising 25-50% of comments.

There's not a lot of tech required to build something to auto-direct comments to buckets like "political discussion" or "AI discussion," preserving the rest of the commentary for the game itself. This might actually force the loser trolls to post less as it gives them fewer engagement opportunities.

Common Steam - get this feature locked in!

[eram]

The order is by date and time. You won't get a robot to sort them in random orders

[William Shakesman]

One of the most consistent positions I have seen Valve hold is that they see no issue if the entire front page is all posts about the same topic. I do not believe Valve sees this as a problem

[DeadPixelRefund]

Originally posted by eram:

The order is by date and time. You won't get a robot to sort them in random orders

It's not about changing the sorting of comments but rather auto-moving them to new sections of the forum. For example, when someone tries to ask about wokeness in a video game in "general discussions," Steam auto-moves that entire topic to a different section, like "political discussion."

[eram]

Originally posted by DeadPixelRefund:

Originally posted by eram:

The order is by date and time. You won't get a robot to sort them in random orders

It's not about changing the sorting of comments but rather auto-moving them to new sections of the forum. For example, when someone tries to ask about wokeness in a video game in "general discussions," Steam auto-moves that entire topic to a different section, like "political discussion."

ok i understand, thanks.

the forum here everything you see is 100% custom made from the ground up. Nothing like that is even close to being able to be added but hey who knows.

[DeadPixelRefund]

Originally posted by William Shakesman:

One of the most consistent positions I have seen Valve hold is that they see no issue if the entire front page is all posts about the same topic. I do not believe Valve sees this as a problem

This is unfortunate because the problem has gotten so much worse in recent years and it's eventually going to work against Steam's reputation. Personally I used to use their forums a lot to learn about new games but now I won't even bother because of the time it takes to sort through all the garbage.

[eram]

Originally posted by DeadPixelRefund:

Originally posted by William Shakesman:

One of the most consistent positions I have seen Valve hold is that they see no issue if the entire front page is all posts about the same topic. I do not believe Valve sees this as a problem

This is unfortunate because the problem has gotten so much worse in recent years and it's eventually going to work against Steam's reputation. Personally I used to use their forums a lot to learn about new games but now I won't even bother because of the time it takes to sort through all the garbage.

they used to have a no politics rule , as soon as that was removed we have what we have now.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by DeadPixelRefund:

There's not a lot of tech required

There is far more to it than you imagine.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by DeadPixelRefund:

Originally posted by eram:

The order is by date and time. You won't get a robot to sort them in random orders

It's not about changing the sorting of comments but rather auto-moving them to new sections of the forum. For example, when someone tries to ask about wokeness in a video game in "general discussions," Steam auto-moves that entire topic to a different section, like "political discussion."

That is why moderators exist, if you feel a comment has broke some rule that would require it being moved then report it, otherwise it will likely stay in the topic it was posted in.

[DeadPixelRefund]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

There is far more to it than you imagine.

Not if you have a small, capable team of systems integrators and a modern data scientist, who knows NLP. True, Steam's platform is highly proprietary so there would indeed be some reverse engineering involved, and who knows how slow their CI/CD process is, but relatively speaking this is a small project, with only a few pieces of new tech needed.

[Tito Shivan]

Just stay away from the forums of new releases. Eventually trolls move away to greener pastures and the quality of the forum improves.

[DeadPixelRefund]

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

That is why moderators exist, if you feel a comment has broke some rule that would require it being moved then report it, otherwise it will likely stay in the topic it was posted in.

It's not about targeting rule breakers, but keeping the content more organized to accommodate all of the new "opinions" people have. Plus, human mods will not exist in another 10 years...

[William Shakesman]

Originally posted by eram:

Originally posted by DeadPixelRefund:

This is unfortunate because the problem has gotten so much worse in recent years and it's eventually going to work against Steam's reputation. Personally I used to use their forums a lot to learn about new games but now I won't even bother because of the time it takes to sort through all the garbage.

they used to have a no politics rule , as soon as that was removed we have what we have now.

The wages of insisting "everything is political" to assert a right to divert the conversation to one's pet issues are finally paid in full as now everyone can do that all the time and turns out they had a lot of it pent up.

Originally posted by DeadPixelRefund:

Originally posted by William Shakesman:

One of the most consistent positions I have seen Valve hold is that they see no issue if the entire front page is all posts about the same topic. I do not believe Valve sees this as a problem

This is unfortunate because the problem has gotten so much worse in recent years and it's eventually going to work against Steam's reputation. Personally I used to use their forums a lot to learn about new games but now I won't even bother because of the time it takes to sort through all the garbage.

It is the same issue as it ever was, just everyone hates each other even more now and there is no shared culture or middle ground. This is happening in almost every field of discourse that does not select for just one specific culture, not just Steam.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by DeadPixelRefund:

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

That is why moderators exist, if you feel a comment has broke some rule that would require it being moved then report it, otherwise it will likely stay in the topic it was posted in.

It's not about targeting rule breakers, but keeping the content more organized to accommodate all of the new "opinions" people have. Plus, human mods will not exist in another 10 years...

If they are not breaking rules then there is no reason to move them to different sections if they are already in the correct section.