The rollout of Steam Tags has been full of highs and lows.
It seems like for every funny or useful tag attached to a game, there’s been a
lot more that are mean-spirited or judgmental. It’s been called out as a major
failing of the system. Now, Valve’s looking to do something about it.
https://kotaku.com/the-first-day-of-steam-tags-will-make-you-laugh-and-cr-1522262945
In an recent update post, Valve announced an update to the
tagging beta that will let users report bad tags:
There is a new reporting option next to
popular tags on game pages. You can click the flag icon to report a tag, which
will downvote the tag. Right now there are four report reasons:
Offensive/abusive tag
Not appropriate for this
product
Not a helpful tag
Spoiler
In general, tags need to be applied by
more users before they will show on the popular tags section
“For You” / Recommended tags
will only recommend tags that apply to multiple games
Fixed an issue where swear words would
show unfiltered in some places
It’s not clear what the steps past flagging and downvoting would be but presumably
some kind of moderation will be culling bad tags from the system. Steam Tags is
still in beta, remember, so it’s good to see Valve responding so quickly to
this issue.
