Hello all,

For the past two months, as per our roadmap, we have been working on ways that we can improve our discussion forums, as up until now, we have only had the one big forum with over 400 threads for conversation now currently exist.

Me and the moderators, to help organise the forums more, will be rolling out the following sub forums starting today:

• Rules & Information - Our forum for our rules and our how to help threads.
  
• Asset Flips - Games that are asset flips.
  
• Censorship - Instances where developers have partaken in censorship, either on forums or attempting to take down negative reviews
  
• Copyright/Trademark/Legal Issues - as the title suggests
  
• Dirty Devs - Discussing a developer/studio more as a whole rather than a particular "game" or whose anti-consumer practices may encompass topics that go into more than one forum.
  
• Dead Games - Alerting of games that are multiplayer only with no players and/or early access games which have been abandoned.
  
• Harassment - Cases where developers have harassed members of the Steam community.
  
• Review Manipulation - This includes review bombing incidents (positive and negative) and exposing fake reviews.
  
• Scams/Fraudulent Activity - any game scams or instances of fraud/misrepresentation.
  
• Steam Store Policies & Updates - Policy changes or developments with the store as a whole, or generally talk about Steam's stance on "x"
  
• The Positive Pool - A place to share good games, good developers or good gaming experiences.
  
• Other - Anything that (for now)doesn't fit in the other forums. (If we start to observe loads of threads appearing around another specific topic, then we will look to update our sub forums with a new one for this topic depending on how notable it's becoming)

We will be rolling these new sub forums out today and over the course of May and June will be moving topics (starting with our oldest and inactive ones) to these new sub forums. This will mean that over the course of the next two months, our forums may start to look messier before it ultimately will look cleaner, as me and the mods are only able to see to these moves when we each have some time to spare.

It may also mean some bugs and glitches may occur with notifications when we get to the newer and more active topics, as sometimes Steam freaks out when sending a notification to a thread that has since been moved, so we can only apologise for any potential inconvenience that these changes will cause in the short term.

A reminder as well, our STEAM GAME SHARING THREAD will be getting locked in the near future when we are nearing the end of our cleanup. The thread will not be deleted, but only locked and archived, as we all felt the thread further allows for untidiness and where a lot of the conversations there would be better suited for their own individual threads within our new sub forums. I'll give a 2 week notice in the thread ahead of our closure date, as I'm aware a lot of users do use it. After it's closure, do please feel free to make a discussion thread in the relevant sub forum for whatever you planned to discuss!

Thanks all, any questions, please do let me know!

- Mellow & the Sentinels of the Store team