WannaLogAlready wrote on Mar 24, 2023, 17:50:

Sepharo wrote on Mar 24, 2023, 16:31:

RogueSix wrote on Mar 24, 2023, 10:21:
[...] and tens of thousands of ignored Steam games.

Pretty sure that's kxmode, unless someone else is doing that insane thing as well.

edit: Err, yeah I guess, it's him too. I thought the first time he brought it up in response to kxmode that he was 'avin a giggle... but I guess he was serious since there are more posts about that later.

Sheparo, what happened to you man.

Presenting, Steam: The insane horror !

Carefully selected Free Games : 535
Not free: 3852 (my country has ridiculous Steam discounts, world most favored)
Marked as ignored: 36168 (focused & methodic is easy for some, and always got the bonuses at work, tsk tsk )

Yeah... 36,168 games you've clicked ignored on... I dunno that seems crazy to me.
I also use Steam's various recommendation features and queues to occasionally find games I might be interested and it seems to work just fine without ignoring any games, let alone 36,168 of them.

I've never really been one to use negative feedback on such things though... I worry that by clicking thumbs down on something that I'm training the algo in a way that I didn't intend. Like, maybe I think, "that's a thumbs down because I don't like the art style," but the algo doesn't know that and thinks I just don't like the genre or something. I know ignore is a bit different than that (assuming it only hides the game), but still just don't see the need to hide stuff...
Also.. what if I change my mind? ... Wouldn't be given that opportunity if it's hidden forever.

An example of how careful I am about using Like/Dislike...
My Watchlist / Seen / Like / Dislike numbers from the JustWatch site where I track my movies.
589 / 790 / 182 / 2
https://i.imgur.com/3aufhbZ.png

So is it true that I only liked 182 of the 790 movies I've marked as Seen? Or that I only disliked 2 of them? Nah.
I just think that it's important to maintain variety by not feeding the algo too much negativity.