It’s CS2 what do you expect? It’s a luring bug zapper for degenerates.

Originally posted by hWhiteMan:

are they blocked or not? I absolutly HATE them.

Setting peole on blockesd will only not show you their póstings/threads....and if other people quote those.
They will still be able to see your postings....as it is on every forum....

I did not pay good money just to interract with pwople like that. I also find the follow feature disturbing for the above mentioned things.
The block feature is just mute, basically :(
Is there a way to actually see who follows me? IDK if there is.. creepy feature..

Originally posted by hWhiteMan:

I did not pay good money just to interract with pwople like that. I also find the follow feature disturbing for the above mentioned things.
The block feature is just mute, basically :(
Is there a way to actually see who follows me? IDK if there is.. creepy feature..

The follow feature IS a problem. Pretty much everyone agrees that it is very poor implementation.

As for "blocking" that is how blocking works on forums and always has. You are misconstruing this forum for a social media site where you get control of your feed and thus, can block people.

Blocking people will only prevent them from interacting with your stuff; so your profile, reviews, screenshots, etc. Everything that's in "your space".

But the fora, even those in groups, are essentially public space. You don't get to dictate what's going on there, the moderators do. So... as a courtesy any posts from people you have blocked will appear hidden at first. You may not want to interact with them, which is fair enough, but that doesn't mean they don't get to interact with the forum you're both using.

Also... "mass reporting"? You make it sound as if that actually does something. Wake up call: it doesn't. And how would you even know that people report you anyway? Them saying so? Big deal!

Originally posted by hWhiteMan:

nasty people that mass report your posts

Alright, let's go over what happens when someone reports a post on the forums for anyone who hasn't moderated on Steam before.

There's a hidden subforum in each hub called "Reported Posts". Reporting a post creates a new thread in there with a link to the reported post, a quote of the reported post, and whatever description the reporter supplied.

If a post gets reported a second time, it shows up as a reply to the thread created by the first report, and so on.

Any time a new thread is made in a Reported Posts forum (unless the game developers have opted out of this) it is added to a queue that Steam's global moderators go through to resolve reports.

At least for my game's forum, the most common kind of report is the automatic filter that makes that gray italicized text you've probably seen. When that text gets "stuck" on a post, it's because the automated system reported the post. If the post isn't spam, a Valve global moderator comes by and frees it. If it is spam, it gets deleted.

But when multiple people report the same post, all that does is add to the list of reasons people have given for reporting the post. It doesn't put multiple copies of the post into the queue or do anything to force action to be taken when moderators decided that none needs to be taken.

Mass reporting a post does nothing. If a post breaks the rules, one report is enough. If it doesn't, zero reports are enough.

Following a user does nothing when it comes to the forums.

Valve knows about the spam bots in the CS2 hub and don't care. They went from using chat bots claiming to be Community Leaders to chat bots using Patois style language converters.

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Originally posted by hWhiteMan:

nasty people that mass report your posts

Alright, let's go over what happens when someone reports a post on the forums for anyone who hasn't moderated on Steam before.

There's a hidden subforum in each hub called "Reported Posts". Reporting a post creates a new thread in there with a link to the reported post, a quote of the reported post, and whatever description the reporter supplied.

If a post gets reported a second time, it shows up as a reply to the thread created by the first report, and so on.

Any time a new thread is made in a Reported Posts forum (unless the game developers have opted out of this) it is added to a queue that Steam's global moderators go through to resolve reports.

At least for my game's forum, the most common kind of report is the automatic filter that makes that gray italicized text you've probably seen. When that text gets "stuck" on a post, it's because the automated system reported the post. If the post isn't spam, a Valve global moderator comes by and frees it. If it is spam, it gets deleted.

But when multiple people report the same post, all that does is add to the list of reasons people have given for reporting the post. It doesn't put multiple copies of the post into the queue or do anything to force action to be taken when moderators decided that none needs to be taken.

Mass reporting a post does nothing. If a post breaks the rules, one report is enough. If it doesn't, zero reports are enough.

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