the forums are ♥♥♥♥ because they generate 0 income for valve. They dont and never have given a ♥♥♥♥ about these forums

1. this is why mods volunteer got let go for paid mods who at least care about their job and won't abuse it AS MUCH

2. who cares they're forums. The equivalent of talking to walls

The AI overlords don't even ban me anymore...My ban counter in my name is starting to feel stale and pointless. It's like they don't even care about me like they used to...

I guess now I know how it feels to be one of those bullied kids in school, who once the bullies leave alone starts to miss the attention. They just got bored of me I guess. Feels bad.

I have 1 game I play on Steam but I disable my wifi and play it offline so they don't get the stats of an online user.

Valve doesn't really read these.

Originally posted by Fumo Bnnuy n Friends:

1. this is why mods volunteer got let go for paid mods who at least care about their job and won't abuse it AS MUCH

2. who cares they're forums. The equivalent of talking to walls

I'm talkin about the payed mods... the one's who can't even be bothered to articulate a legitimate reason for a ban anymore and just be like "it appears this account was banned from _____, we looked into it and determined that this ban was applied correctly."

and you be like "can you elaborate on that? what rule was broken?"

and they be like "it appears this account was banned from _____, we looked into it and determined that this ban was applied correctly.
because we have provided all the information we can regarding this obvious case of mod abuse you will not recieve an further replys regarding this issue. if you have any other issues feel free to contact us so we can ignore that and be completely unhelpful also."

ya know, like the issue with steam overlay that literally soft-locks my PC that's existed for months that they say is a "known issue with no current fix"?

though I'm like 100.1% steam support is AI at this point anyways... it's actually bugged out on my before and replied with some broken attempt at a social reference like "#♥♥♥♥♥♥?""

like "what was that broken steam support AI?" "I'm not an AI. I'm a real boy!!"

Originally posted by Agenda 2025:

I have 1 game I play on Steam but I disable my wifi and play it offline so they don't get the stats of an online user.

now i have to know what game. please.

pretty please.

Originally posted by kingjames488:

though I'm like 100.1% steam support is AI at this point anyways... it's actually bugged out on my before and replied with some broken attempt at a social reference like "#♥♥♥♥♥♥?""

like "what was that broken steam support AI?" "I'm not an AI. I'm a real boy!!"

why are you talking to an AI?

Originally posted by kingjames488:

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Very good.

I haven't heard any of them complain about it. I believe those developers removed those games themselves, and out of their own free will. Because if they were forced to do this, and didn't wanted to, they would be complaining about it. Wouldn't they?

Originally posted by WANG ATTACK:

the forums are ♥♥♥♥ because they generate 0 income for valve. They dont and never have given a ♥♥♥♥ about these forums

They care enough to pay the moderation staff, even though that means they're operating at a loss.

Originally posted by Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...:

Originally posted by kingjames488:

though I'm like 100.1% steam support is AI at this point anyways... it's actually bugged out on my before and replied with some broken attempt at a social reference like "#♥♥♥♥♥♥?""

like "what was that broken steam support AI?" "I'm not an AI. I'm a real boy!!"

why are you talking to an AI?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oijEsqT2QKQ

Originally posted by Tonepoet:

Originally posted by WANG ATTACK:

the forums are ♥♥♥♥ because they generate 0 income for valve. They dont and never have given a ♥♥♥♥ about these forums

They care enough to pay the moderation staff, even though that means they're operating at a loss.

Must remember that the forums are not the only thing on Steam that need to be moderated. There is also every other piece of user-generated content - guides, avatars, groups, profiles, etc.

Setting aside the forums it's in any company's interest to have moderation when users can upload things. Don't really want people uploading illegal content onto your website unless you want to risk getting into trouble and scaring other customers away.

I am sure they also have the budget to spare for the moderation, but they also probably pay the bare minimum for it.

Originally posted by kingjames488:

...is it irony that steam is now facing a whole can of worms for their 2-faced standards...

Are they? I don't believe the broader population really cares what goes on in the Steam forums. Neither does Valve very much for that matter.

Now the circus has moved to Rednote if you want almost unrestricted free speech. I'm actually shocked that they allow more free speech than even 4 chan and 8 kun

Originally posted by Val:

Now the circus has moved to Rednote if you want almost unrestricted free speech. I'm actually shocked that they allow more free speech than even 4 chan and 8 kun

they don't actually, they just leave token threads around so the casual observer thinks it's a free-for-all while removing all the content they want to actually oppress...

like they say, you can fool most of the people some of the time or you can fool some of the people most of the time... but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.