Reduced Value for new games with "Steam is learning about this game"

Games can be put manually by mods as reduced value or 0 value, I believe

When sold for cents somewhere and someone make a ticket about it, the game will be set to reduced. Which means $7.5 cv instead of $50 cv.
The stats in groups will be calculated with $50. Because of this look the one or other stats of members, in dif. groups, very generous or with other words "exploited the system".

Still much too much but that are the rules right now.

But the problem exist since a long time, i reported, 1-2 years ago, many dozens, maybe hundreds, of such games, with """only""" 15p - 30p, sold for 8 - 16 cents.
It was a fight against windmills and a lot of this tickets are still not handled from a mod.

All the games that gets sold in the shady ru stores should be set to FREE and the problem would be soon ending because the people couldn't use this games anymore to exploit the cv system.

But i don't expect that this happens

SG tickets are subject to privacy laws

I am talking about one specific type of tickets, the kind to report overpriced low-effort asset flips. This does not include tickets that deal with user reports or bans which normally involve sensitive private info. All that is required here in the ticket would be info about the game being reported which is public info anyway. If you want to be extra safe, the site can show a visible banner on the report page that warns not to include any personal info and that everything shared will be public.

member access to any part of the control panel never gonna happen for security reasons

that's not what I suggested, I am talking about creating a new page which only shows a list of tickets of one specific kind, reported games, and with one simple action, upvoting them. There is no cross-over with existing moderation tools.

level benefits are permanently off the table

that was optional, you can still allow everyone to upvote including lvl 0 users if you want, idea would not change.

the bloat and serverload

what server load? we're talking about adding a single field in the backend to track the number of upvotes, couldn't be simpler...

I am a big believer that moderating online communities is an almost impossible task and only gets harder as sites grow (think eternal september). And if you want to maintain quality and uphold site rules and not eventually end up having the small team of moderators be overwhelmed and burned out (like I suspect is the case on SG), you have to have let the community itself self-moderate. A good example of a site that pioneered this idea is Stack Overflow and the larger Stack Exchange network of sites:

• https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/
• https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/12/02/stack-exchange-moderator-elections-begin/
• https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/10/07/membership-has-its-privileges/

The system is very well thought of with features like reputation, flagging, yearly elections of moderators, gaining more privileges based on user reputation, a meta sister site for discussing the site itself... It all creates a really well oiled machine that can handle millions of users, both good and bad ones looking to exploit the system and ruin the experience for everyone else.

You are right, I should start blocking them. I've considered it, but in fear of blocking some legitimate users who happened to get a cheap bundle (and because I don't understand hentai games enough to judge what is good and what is CV farming) I decided against it, but for games like the one I mentioned, I think it's obvious and I should have blacklisted that user.