Platform Data Revisions Matter

Monthly platform metrics (e.g., Steam Survey) are used as near‑real signals for OS adoption, developer targeting, and competition narratives. When a platform silently revises those figures upward or downward, it can change market perceptions and policy conversations overnight; therefore public platforms should publish machine‑readable revision logs, provenance notes, and short explanations alongside any data corrections. — Unexplained revisions in major platforms’ public metrics corrupt evidence used by developers, researchers, journalists and policymakers, so requiring provenance and revision transparency is a small governance fix with outsized public‑policy impact.