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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The "Store content policy" option made it so Valve doesn't have to manually do anything about "review bombs" or review bombs, which is a very Valve way of handling it.

Bringing up incidents from 3 or 5 years ago kinda solidifies that point, they put it up to the algorithm and don't manually get involved.

They even say in that article, as an update, that they aren't removing reviews. This function lets a user decide what they consider relevant, without removing reviews, and most importantly for Valve means they don't have to manually do anything.

They still could, but again you found articles from years ago, they wanted a solution that requires less work for them and stopped the headlines, and that seems to have worked.