Again, fair points. But the system isn't perfect and some people do have bias. If someone is a fan of a certain dev or genre it's possible their judgement can be colored to a degree. Also, what checks are in place to deal with the opposite of a review bomb? How about when a game gets several rave reviews despite the game being a broken buggy mess? It's not a perfect system. As I've stated before, when it comes to Studio FoW specifically I know how scummy and toxic they can be. And I have seen negative reviews on games that ended up being removed unfairly.
Aside from Steam, devs have been known to shun criticism. Many adult game makers have Discord servers. I have been in several where the dev became abusive and confrontational about constructive criticism. It's one reason I enjoy using this site to discuss the games without fear of being ganged up on or having my comments deleted just for providing honest albeit negative feedback.
There been cases in the past of devs that tried to "boost" their game, and got slapped hard by Steam. There is checks in place.
If you get a ban, or disagreement with a moderator and you feel it's unjust you can kick it up in the system and make a complaint. You will never find yourself in a situation where you have to just deal with the moderator that banned you, gave you a warning etc.
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If a game on steam end up get a unnatural huge negative or postive reviews Steam will look into it. Reviews doesn't get deleted per see, but they get hidden. You as a user can select if you want to view these though. These reviews end up not counting towards the game's stats in any way though. Subverse have had several periods of "off topic" reviews, also known as review bombing. At large at the hands of Chinese people, of which at some degree keep going on...