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Re:Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales by netcan on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:20PM (#18590537)
Exactly what I meant. They're not meceydoing a bad job, but just having that central decider (human or botmaster) is disheartening.. when things don't go your way.

..it's a gatekeeper, and we have a complicated relationship with those guys.

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Re:Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales by sbarre on Monday December 03, 2018 @07:32PM (#18594686)
For sure, I agree and I know exactly where you're coming from..

A decade ago or so I was tasked with writing a recommendation engine for a "creators community" company I worked at, and the feedback we got after launching that feature was pretty much constant for as long as I was still working there.

Everyone wanted to know exactly how it worked (so they could min/max for the logic) and no one was happy with the results.

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