are you saying that moderation works to keep it from happening? hmmmm, interesting.
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Valve Removes Over 100 Steam Tributes To Suspected New Zealand Shooter
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My feelings towards Steam used to be rather neutral. But, I think I was always naive in that regard. Maybe these kinds of people always existed there. When Hatred released, it blew my mind that there were actually prople, a vocal amount of them on Steam wanting that game on the store. Trying to justify it being there, saying its censorship if its not. I started to realize the gaming community is generally sick af and its even more toxic than we think.
Now. Paying tribute to a real life murderer. All these guys deserve to burn in hell with that killer. What a sick world we live in, the incel Alt-Right and their incel cheerleaders really make the world a shithole in the modern age.
Now. Paying tribute to a real life murderer. All these guys deserve to burn in hell with that killer. What a sick world we live in, the incel Alt-Right and their incel cheerleaders really make the world a shithole in the modern age.
Yes it is. Because as a muslim you're kinda pissing me off right now to associate me with these shooters apologists for the sole reason I play on a platform where piece of shits also happens to play.
You're insulting me right now.
believe me, if the story was about 10 people, the responses here would have been the same.
Unfortunately it's legal in the US. Reporting the assholes in other countries to the police could work though.
Why doesn't Valve hand over their IP addresses to the US and NZ governments and just ban their IPs?
The president of the US basically used the same language as the shooter hours after it happened.
100% agreed.
It wasn't fucking ok back when Yahtzee created the term as a means of mocking some PC gamers. Do you know how and why the meme started?
I mean we all know there's far more than a hundred of these people on there, those are just some of the more open ones.
I'm actually surprised that's "only" +100 profiles. I expected that deranged sicko would easily gather thousands of followers, especially when Steam hosts millions of people/profiles. Good thing Valve acted quickly.
I think it's more like the internet was a mistake. And it has become as essential as electricity for daily life. Very scary, but there's no going back.
Good, Valve needs to get tough on this shit, i understand they have some sort of libertarian point of view, but this shit is evil & anyone who posted it needs to be banned, they also need some serious help too, reporting them to the FBI would be a good idea.
In that same article they said Valve has been banning those groups for a long time (since at least 2017). You can also see that they have been moderating the forums more heavily since 2017, with them giving stats of what they have done.
Valve needing to do more =/= Valve not doing anything.
I hope they were reported to the FBI/Interpol or whoever, and Valve identified their real accounts through the IP and nuked the accounts so they can't play their games and can no longer access Steam. Fucking sick bastards.
Yep. I can tell you they've been a lot more active on removing these since the beginning of 2018. I've got several dozens of them banned after reporting them. Valve now also assigns their own employees to moderate reported content on all forums.
Yeah, I have also used the flag system in tons of group that have been banned.
Agreed. But not just to the FBI, but to other countries equivalents also
Yep. And dumb question, if a steam account is banned, all the games it owns are taken too right? Hopefully.
Joking aside, these dumbasses need to have their accounts banned as well.
People were perfectly capable of being racist monsters before the internet or videogames were around.
A certain percentage of humans at large are assholes, so every community is also always going to have some assholes in it.
I think so. That said I assume with this kind of stuff it's mostly going to be a bunch of burner accounts from shitlords who just wanted the attention and had no intention of actually making or selling anything. I kinda figured having some sort of minimal fee to submit anything would curtail most of this, but I guess it's easy to underestimate how dedicated people can be to being pricks.
A certain percentage of humans at large are assholes, so every community is also always going to have some assholes in it.
I think so. That said I assume with this kind of stuff it's mostly going to be a bunch of burner accounts from shitlords who just wanted the attention and had no intention of actually making or selling anything. I kinda figured having some sort of minimal fee to submit anything would curtail most of this, but I guess it's easy to underestimate how dedicated people can be to being pricks.
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This isn't a reflection of the steam community as a whole, every single online service and website has disgusting people like this, the main thing is that it is moderated correctly.
Valve should always strive to do better and I still don't think their moderation is anywhere near good enough but this is a step in the right direction.
Painting entire communities as toxic (unless evidence suggests that is the case) is not the right way to approach it (I am not suggesting anybody here is painting the entire steam community as toxic by the way, just want to clarify that.)
Steam has 90 million monthly active users, how many of those do you think share sentiments like this?
Valve should always strive to do better and I still don't think their moderation is anywhere near good enough but this is a step in the right direction.
Painting entire communities as toxic (unless evidence suggests that is the case) is not the right way to approach it (I am not suggesting anybody here is painting the entire steam community as toxic by the way, just want to clarify that.)
Steam has 90 million monthly active users, how many of those do you think share sentiments like this?
The only surprising thing is that a news was made about it.
I'm sure Russians are quaking in their tracksuits at the thought of being reported to the FBI. Or any other nationality, really.
Generally they just ban you from further purchases IIRC.
