Ran into something odd today. I was in the Avengers: IQ Premium ratings and noticed that despite the game being rated 8.7, it has ZERO ratings with comments that give it a poor rating. The game is clearly a hit or miss with most people so we all know it has good AND bad ratings, but where are the bad ones?

Answer: Pinside hides most of them by default. Any rating that gets 10 or more 'flags' gets hidden by the default filter. Why are you doing this??

It's obvious from reading them that 95%+ of flagged ratings are legit, real ratings by someone who has played the game. Yet Pinside perpetuates a system where you can simply rig the comments by flagging any comments you don't like as 'fake' and once enough fanboys join in, *poof* that real authentic rating comment vanishes. The flagging system largely serves no real purpose beyond allowing fanboys who are mad that someone doesn't like their game to erase those 'poor' comments.

Mods, there are a few steps you can take to bring legitimacy back to the ratings comments:

- Stop defaulting the filter to exclude ratings with 10 more flags. My review of Avengers: IQ is as real as the sun and has 19 flags indicating it's fake. There are TONS more comments in the same boat on Pinside. It's insulting when someone takes the time to write a review to then have adults with the mentality of school-age children flag it because it hurt their feelings.

- Penalize users who flag legit reviews as fake. Suspend those that do it repeatedly. Enough with the BS.

- Remove the ability to flag reviews you've 'moderated' and determined to be legit.

Any of those steps is better than what you have now. It's important that someone looking to purchase a game get to read ALL of the perspectives on a game, not just those that are positive.

Did you even read my post? I wasn't b*tching about the ratings. I was pointing out that GOOD -comments- that are negative are hidden. That's a problem. Plenty of people would care - if they actually knew this was going on. It's not obvious that Pinside filters the results for you by default. I had no idea until I noticed a review I wrote wasn't shown....low and behold there were a bunch not being shown. But hey, if nobody GAF about it then I guess I'm going to start flagging bad ratings for games I own too.

Ones with exactly 10 still show up when the "exclude 10 or more" filter is on. Look at the filter when you go to the comments for a game and see what it's set at by default. On mine it was set to exclude ratings with 10+ flags. I was really upset about it because I use the comments to gather sentiment on a game [that I can't play somewhere - there's pandemic here in RI] before I consider buying and to now find out all the negative comments that the fanboys flagged were hidden....I'm bummed.