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Steam handles this problem fairly well, IMO. They show a graph of positive/negative reviews over time, making review bombing stand out. If Valve identifies th

Steam handles this problem fairly well, IMO. They show a graph of positive/negative reviews over time, making review bombing stand out. If Valve identifies the anomaly as being off-topic they can even mark it as such an exclude the reviews from affecting the overall review scores. Users who don't like this can even disable the exclusion and get the "raw" review score. More info from when this was introduced: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1808664240333155775 https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...

sgift 3y ago
The only thing missing is a country filter, so I can just disable reviews from certain countries prone to excessive national pride and the accompanying "that Island is ours, it wasn't on your map. ALL REVIEWS BE BAD" completely. The five good reviews out of these areas never outweigh the rest.
- WheatMillington 3y ago
  I remember when Company of Heroes 2 was released and a certain cohort believed Russians were portrayed poorly, and the game was review bombed to hell by hoardes of Russian nationalists. Unfortunately this was before the review reforms and it severely affected the game's score on the platform.
creer 3y ago
Good one. Anyone knows other review sites that do provide more control on which reviews I get to see?
3l3ktr4 3y ago
They could use this and a bubble in the site explaining this might be review bombing and show the score of the book disregarding these events. I’ve never understood why people have such a negative opinion on goodreads, though. I guess this is the only thing I know of that makes it bad.
rightbyte 3y ago
"there's now a checkbox in your Steam Store options where you can choose to have off-topic review bombs still included in all the Review Scores you see." Things like this is so nice. If I don't trust Gaben's bullshit review filter, I can see what the result would be without, just to check.
- paulddraper 3y ago
  *so nice
  - rightbyte 3y ago
    Oh ye thanks. The autocomplete on my phone has got so much worse lately ...
Dalewyn 3y ago
I too like their transparency, but for the opposite reason: I find review bombings are the only time reviews are actually useful. Reviews are a dime a dozen, positive or negative; they normally aren't useful for judging whether a product is worth buying. Review bombings on the other hand only happen when something happened to trigger the internet's sweaty wrath, and that is very useful as a unit of measure. Any particular review in the bombing is worthless like any other review, but the collective act of review bombing is very valuable information.
- Xiol32 3y ago
  Valuable if you want to find people bedwedding over LGBT representation or empowered women, sure.
  - Dalewyn 3y ago
    It's a great way to weed out woke nonsense, yes. It's also great to weed out draconian DRMs and EULAs, stealthy price hikes immediately prior to a sale, shitty developer behaviour in general, and other such factors I would not want to spend my money on. Reviews by themselves don't tell me anything important, especially in times of peace. Review bombings on the other hand tell me there is or was a problem I might want to look into before I open my wallet, and that's very valuable information for making informed purchases.
    - piperswe 3y ago
      "woke nonsense" would you mind qualifying that? I'm not familiar with what "woke" actually means
      - Silphendio 3y ago
        I also don't know what woke means, but I recall that Superhot VR got review-bombed after an "update" removed some content because it contained self-harm.
      - greenhexagon 3y ago

sgift 3y ago

The only thing missing is a country filter, so I can just disable reviews from certain countries prone to excessive national pride and the accompanying "that Island is ours, it wasn't on your map. ALL REVIEWS BE BAD" completely. The five good reviews out of these areas never outweigh the rest.

WheatMillington 3y ago
I remember when Company of Heroes 2 was released and a certain cohort believed Russians were portrayed poorly, and the game was review bombed to hell by hoardes of Russian nationalists. Unfortunately this was before the review reforms and it severely affected the game's score on the platform.

creer 3y ago

Good one. Anyone knows other review sites that do provide more control on which reviews I get to see?

3l3ktr4 3y ago

They could use this and a bubble in the site explaining this might be review bombing and show the score of the book disregarding these events. I’ve never understood why people have such a negative opinion on goodreads, though. I guess this is the only thing I know of that makes it bad.

rightbyte 3y ago

"there's now a checkbox in your Steam Store options where you can choose to have off-topic review bombs still included in all the Review Scores you see." Things like this is so nice. If I don't trust Gaben's bullshit review filter, I can see what the result would be without, just to check.

paulddraper 3y ago
*so nice
- rightbyte 3y ago
  Oh ye thanks. The autocomplete on my phone has got so much worse lately ...

Dalewyn 3y ago

I too like their transparency, but for the opposite reason: I find review bombings are the only time reviews are actually useful. Reviews are a dime a dozen, positive or negative; they normally aren't useful for judging whether a product is worth buying. Review bombings on the other hand only happen when something happened to trigger the internet's sweaty wrath, and that is very useful as a unit of measure. Any particular review in the bombing is worthless like any other review, but the collective act of review bombing is very valuable information.

Xiol32 3y ago
Valuable if you want to find people bedwedding over LGBT representation or empowered women, sure.
- Dalewyn 3y ago
  It's a great way to weed out woke nonsense, yes. It's also great to weed out draconian DRMs and EULAs, stealthy price hikes immediately prior to a sale, shitty developer behaviour in general, and other such factors I would not want to spend my money on. Reviews by themselves don't tell me anything important, especially in times of peace. Review bombings on the other hand tell me there is or was a problem I might want to look into before I open my wallet, and that's very valuable information for making informed purchases.
  - piperswe 3y ago
    "woke nonsense" would you mind qualifying that? I'm not familiar with what "woke" actually means
    - Silphendio 3y ago
      I also don't know what woke means, but I recall that Superhot VR got review-bombed after an "update" removed some content because it contained self-harm.
    - greenhexagon 3y ago