{"id":122221,"date":"2017-11-22T10:37:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T08:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122221"},"modified":"2017-11-22T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T08:39:49","slug":"steam-tweaks-its-review-system-to-combat-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/122221-steam-tweaks-its-review-system-to-combat-spam","title":{"rendered":"Steam tweaks its review system to combat spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam has implemented a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/?feed=steam_blog&amp;headlines=1#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>number of changes<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to its community review system in an attempt to combat spam.<\/p>\n<p>The new system will take users who try to manipulate the system into account when sorting reviews by helpfulness.<\/p>\n<p>Store pages will also now show positive and negative reviews in proportion to the game\u2019s overall review score.<\/p>\n<p>This means that highly-rated titles will show more positive reviews in the default review interface, and negatively-rated titles will feature more negative reviews.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are currently rolling out as a beta programme, and Steam is considering adding additional features to its review system \u2013 such as review score change over time.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/236502-top-south-african-isps-on-steam.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top South African ISPs on Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam has implemented a\u00a0number of changes\u00a0to its community review system in an attempt to combat spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":90125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[331,25391,85],"class_list":["post-122221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-reviews-2","tag-spam","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}