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Valve attempts to deal with jokes, memes and ASCII art reviews on Steam (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm totally for cleaning up the reviews and tags (if they're not cleaned up already).

Sure, meme/funny reviews can occasionally be helpful if you know what they're about, but in general they're just noise. And the "nobody will read this [confession here]" / "Pet the cat with thumbs up" / etc nonsense is just unnescessary clutter. Thank you Valve for finally adding filters for those.

[–] zhenbo_endle@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

At least 90% of the memes and jokes are unrelated to the game, just no brain copy paste. That’s really annoying.

I like game-related memes, but they’re really hard to find now

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That would be a very good thing. I don't even bother to read the reviews at this point. The average score is the only thing that offers an insight into how well received the game actually is.

[–] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

And the recent score. Good to see if a recent update kills the game or something

[–] Mathazzar@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now if we could cleanse the junk and joke guides as well somehow..

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And games

[–] texasspacejoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

And my axe?

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Here’s my small issue with it. People should be allowed to like/dislike a game without adding a text. Text being mandatory kinda encourages bs reviews or no rating from some people.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years