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Valve cracks down on memes in Steam user reviews

Rejected headline: Gabe hates fun

Steam’s latest update to user reviews doesn’t find your “jokes, memes, ascii art and other content” as funny as you do

Steam’s latest update to user reviews doesn’t find your “jokes, memes, ascii art and other content” as funny as you do

Steam's changes to user reviews aims to highlight more helpful takes and less ascii gigachads

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Via RPS:

User reviews that are “identified as being unhelpful for potential customers, such as one-word reviews, reviews comprised of ASCII art, or reviews that are primarily playful memes and in-jokes, will be sorted behind other reviews on the game’s store page.” The post later clarifies that “identified” here means a combination of user ports, moderation, and “some machine learning algorithms to help scale the human judgment calls.”

Sounds like a good change to me, of which Steam has lately been seeing a few. Did anyone notice the new 'Trending Free' tab at the very bottom of the Store page? It shows the most popular games of the moment that won't cost you a penny (up front, at least), separating them out from the previous trending tabs, which they tended to clog up:

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Created at 3:28pm, 15th August, 2024. Page last updated at 6:03pm, 15th August, 2024.