Comment on New Steam study alleges that Valve's store is home to extreme right-wing "wars"

• Nephalis@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If they would, no one could ask anything pre purchase.

  But I also don’t like the forum in there because of the bad atmosphere. Also I don’t know whether it is because of a special group or because the general communication style in games is toxic, dumb, aggressive and egoistical as fuck… Like in almost every ingame chat.

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  • Alcyonaria@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every discussion board has several categories by default
    General/bugs/events/trading
    Simply moving the default category or locking it massively decreases trolling and appropriate category use.
    The main problem with discussion trolling is that valve never deals with the rampant spam bots or people who continually post egregious material. I've seen bots last years posting update edits on every large game news post.
    The only way to fix it is to lock it to game owners/account age/community engagement. But valve will never do this unless it negatively affects their image because their leadership have become deluded weirdos (exempting art lead and gabe newell)

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s just the games you play I’ve just had a look at the town to city forum, and it’s fine, as to be expected.

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    • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, to me the Steam forums seem like one of the least toxic “gamer” spaces online.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why not both? One section for owners, one for pre-purchasers (maybe it has to be in their wishlist?)

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