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In the ongoing, never-ending effort to make user reviews useful, rather than merely a conduit for rage and silliness, Valve has added a new feature to Steam that it hopes will make reviews more helpful for people who actually want to know more about the games they're thinking about buying.
The Helpfulness System will deprioritize user reviews identified as unhelpful, including"one-word reviews, reviews comprised of ASCII art, or reviews that are primarily playful memes and in-jokes." Those reviews will still be viewable, but they'll now be sorted behind reviews that are deemed to be actually informative. The new system will not impact the generation of review scores—just the order in which user reviews appear on store pages.
Also interesting is Valve's rationale for re-sorting user reviews, rather than just nuking the ones determined to be unhelpful."We have found that many players want to express an opinion about the game, but don't always have the words to describe their experience with the game, or aren't interested in writing much," Valve wrote."Their indication of whether they would recommend the game is still valuable data, even if they are not able to articulate why.
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