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なかの31 14 Jul @ 8:35pm

User given tag issues

I ended up finding an issue regarding user given filters;
It can be used to label specific games to tags people might have filtered out from their settings.

The example I'll use is of two bad games.
What does "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing" and "Skull Island: Rise of Kong" have in common?
Beside the bad reviews.
Well, both have the tag "Hentai" in them, which I've blocked.
I even found it weird that when I searched Rise of Kong on Steam, I only found the dlc.
I didn't find the game until I clicked its link on the dlc page, then I found out why.

The issue itself isn't that I blocked "Hentai" tag, the problem is that the mislabeling of games can cause people not to see specific games, just because the community wanted to have fun.

Other mislabelling also happened to other games, like Bubsy Two Furs, for example, has the Dating Sim tag.

I used bad games as example for that, but what good games that doesn't match the tag could I have lost?

Maybe add some way of removing from filter tags given by players? If it's possible?

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Anonymous Helper 14 Jul @ 8:56pm

There already is a way to get rid of improperly applied tags. Click the + button on store page next to tags, hover over the tag you think is applied improperly and click the flag to flag it. If enough people flag the tag, it will be removed eventually. This requires time and unknown number of people to do the flagging though.

Last edited by Anonymous Helper; 14 Jul @ 8:58pm

なかの31 14 Jul @ 9:05pm

Maybe might explain why I didn't found "Psychological Horror" on Bubsy when I checked a while ago. I remember seeing that tag in the past.

Doctor Zalgo 14 Jul @ 9:57pm

Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:
There already is a way to get rid of improperly applied tags. Click the + button on store page next to tags, hover over the tag you think is applied improperly and click the flag to flag it. If enough people flag the tag, it will be removed eventually. This requires time and unknown number of people to do the flagging though.

I do think psychological horror is pretty apt for Big Rigs though: https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/big-rigs-over-the-road-racing-review/1900-6086528/

cSg|mc-Hotsauce 14 Jul @ 10:37pm

Report incorrectly applied tags like the Hentai tag. It'll eventually get removed.

Mickey 15 Jul @ 11:58am

Don't know if it's fixed since, but i saw the LGBT+ tag on rocket league

#Edit: Rocket league seams no longer avalaible on steam, i'm late^^

Last edited by Mickey; 15 Jul @ 12:00pm

cSg|mc-Hotsauce 15 Jul @ 12:32pm

Originally posted by Mickey:
Don't know if it's fixed since, but i saw the LGBT+ tag on rocket league

#Edit: Rocket league seams no longer avalaible on steam, i'm late^^ :lunar2019laughingpig:

Store page does not show that tag.