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Wow, the Steam community really is a cesspool.
Wow, the Steam community really is a cesspool.
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Valve Removes Over 100 Steam Tributes To Suspected New Zealand Shooter
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There is rampant white supremacy in gaming communities. Whether that's XBL, PSN or Steam. It is unavoidable if you do any cursory searching. I'm surprised Valve has done this before people have criticized them for not doing so.
Fuck right off with that. What part of DOZENS vs like 300 million users do you not get? There's probbly dozens of asshats on reset era that would say something equally terrible either to troll or to be assholes if they knew they weren't going to get banned.
That's not to say this isn't a problem with gaming communities all over, but that's the point. This is a problem on PSN, Xbox live, Steam.... basically the internet is the issue.
For some reason i assumed this meant 100 games and thought steam really had lost the plot on curation
Steam community pages are an absolute cesspool at the best of times, dreadful to think what they are like at the moment.
Steam community pages are an absolute cesspool at the best of times, dreadful to think what they are like at the moment.
I think everyone has to stop using "Steam community" as something separate from the general population of the world. Steam has 90 Million monthly users, why are a few garbage humans on Steam now "the Steam Community". The Youtube community is actually a cesspool but I realize that is because 99% of the users dont post comments on Youtube so everyone that uses Youtube isnt a garbage human.
On topic though, I am glad Steam is cracking down on horrible people and I hope they start banning some of them.
I am definitely not a defender of Valve by any means but I think part of it is being on the web rather than the communities on PSN (I don't know XBL as well) makes it easier for this stuff to fester. My main problem with Valve is the fact that they just let this shit sit there even after multiple complaints, so I think it's good for them to delete this shit. I'm not sure what exactly is said in these tributes and I don't think I want to know really.
Being empathetic and compassionate is harder than being a dick. And less rewarding.
A hundred out of millions. Do you also believe New Zealand is a cesspool?
It's actually harder to create an account that can be viewed publicly now.
Do you identify in some way with being part of the Steam community to the point where you think that this point is worth arguing? Even if you're right, what's the point?
It's not a reflection of the demographic. It's a reflection of the open-ness of the platform. That's a double-edged sword.
I guarantee you'd have just as much garbage on PSN or Xbox if the platforms were more customizable.
Which is not an argument in favor of stricter control. More open platforms require more mature approaches.
It's my personal experience. Loved the condescending tone though, keep up the good work.
A few hundred fucktards does not make an entire community of millions of users awful. You'll find a similar number of awful human beings on literally any large social media platform.
It's good that Valve are removing this. Other websites should be quicker to do the same.
It's good that Valve are removing this. Other websites should be quicker to do the same.
Holy fucking shit. Track those psychos accounts, find out who they are and put them all on watch lists. This is insane.
There's no denying that Steam certainly seems to at least bring these people to the open more readily with how open the platform is. Rape and School Shooting sims and all.
Exacty. The shitposting, trolling, pathethic boycotts, alt right propaganda and so on is way more visible on Steam. Of course they exist on other platforms, but their voice is not so present.
Don't try to lecture me on toxic gaming culture when I care about the nuance. Just scan my post history before bothering to continue this myopic inquiry.
Valve need to be quicker at removing those games, and should probably have an automated system for flagging obvious problematic ones like Rape Day before anything about them goes live. I agree with that.
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Good to know, the one time I created an alt account (to get another of the cute Tux for TF2) it was piss easy to do it.
There is no lecture. It was an honest question. For me it would be similar to a thread about a cop in the United States that shot and killed a minority and someone coming in and saying #notallcops. In the same way, of course not all Steam users are white supremacist shitheads and not all police officers are murdering psychopaths, but is the distinction worth pointing out?
The issue for me and many people is that Valve has done essentially nothing when it comes to deplatforming these types of people for years and years. They have left many of these discussion boards up to the individual developers themselves, many of whom simply don't have the resources to moderate them.
So the idea that you are angry that someone is calling all of Steam community a white supremacist cesspool just makes me think it's more important for you to be right about the degrees and less about how prevalent this problem is. If you think that's a lecture or that I'm insinuating something more about you than that, that is not my intention.
Is it really that hard not to generalize millions of people based on the actions of the few?
C'mon, Steam has always been like this. I once tried to complain about the racism in CS:GO and was just told to get over it. Shit's been festering since birth
Fuck this stupid awful culture within gaming that legitimizes and spreads right wing hate.
Get out of my hobby.
Get out of my hobby.
I'm not sure if this is a rhetorical question or not...
I will say the fact that this is a news story implies to me that this is unexpected behavior from Valve. We are all used to their milquetoast responses to this type of thing. So good on them for changing, at least in this case.
In most cases, it's not worth distinguishing really. Sincerity is so rare on the Internet that the fact that this community exists is welcome to me.