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Funky Monk 8 Aug @ 3:20pm

Bot infestation

So recently steam has been hit with this particular bot infestation, comes to profiles of users and leaves like 2 emojis. I've counted 50+ accounts and everyday another one pops up. Is Valve gonna do anything about this or are these bots just gonna run rampant?

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St✩rlight 8 Aug @ 3:24pm

Sure, Funky Monk. We'll just go ahead and ban everyone who posts on other user's profiles because you say so.

JOKER 8 Aug @ 3:27pm

Fake news.

Funky Monk 8 Aug @ 3:28pm

Originally posted by St✩rlight:
Sure, Funky Monk. We'll just go ahead and ban everyone who posts on other user's profiles because you say so.

Im guessin you didnt read properly because im talking about particular bots, not anyone who comments emojis.

Heres 2 examples of those accounts on my profile:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/profiles/76561199517830531
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/profiles/76561199666675630

Last edited by Funky Monk; 8 Aug @ 3:30pm

Funky Monk 8 Aug @ 3:32pm

Originally posted by JOKER:
Fake news.

Right fake, check mine and Azza's profiles here bud

Kobret 8 Aug @ 3:32pm

i see

Funky Monk 8 Aug @ 3:35pm

Originally posted by Azza ☠:
It's a bypass advertising of a questionable website on their Avatar picture, you should report/block them.

Report: "Spam bot advertising questionable website displayed on user avatar picture"

Ill report those on my profile, strange thing is all these accounts are banned from a game, clearly someone knows of their existence yet they didn't shut em down completely

Last edited by Funky Monk; 8 Aug @ 3:37pm

salamander 8 Aug @ 3:36pm

yeah i had some too, valve does ban bots but i think it comes in waves instead of case by case. and really i guess to me it is not such a big issue if they just spam my profile with some nonsense, i can just delete it or block the bot. or both

Siluva 8 Aug @ 3:39pm

Had some recently.

ṼṏẌṏḭḊ 8 Aug @ 3:39pm

Originally posted by Funky Monk:
Originally posted by Azza ☠:
It's a bypass advertising of a questionable website on their Avatar picture, you should report/block them.

Report: "Spam bot advertising questionable website displayed on user avatar picture"
Ill report those on my profile, strange thing is all these accounts are banned from a game, clearly someone knows of their existence yet they didn't shut em down completely

They're probably stolen accounts or just leftover cheater accounts. Now that they can't cheat in games anymore, they just go around advertising scams.

AdahnGorion 8 Aug @ 3:40pm

Batty lets fly now and then.
Nothing unusual

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Republic of Lamers 8 Aug @ 3:41pm

This issue was addressed under a recent topic on "Steam Discussions" and people are pretending it's not a recent problem that has exploded drastically.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/discussions/forum/0/601911983260012017/

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Voroff 8 Aug @ 3:41pm

Originally posted by Funky Monk:
Is Valve gonna (...) these bots just gonna run rampant?

That. Because Steam moderation is a horrible piece of sh!t. They can't even ban Holocaust "justifiers" accounts.

We should really get paid to report and helping them doing their job, but they don't even do it properly. Literal pieces of sh!t.

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