Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

• dupelet_comments@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you can report them if they are inappropriate.

  Which is what the entire article is about, reports being ineffective…

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its not, its about Valve not proactively moderating for the devs.

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    • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “I’m not new to online harassment,” says designer Nathalie Lawhead, who spent two years trying to get reviews removed from their games’ pages. Both reference allegations of sexual assault that Lawhead made in 2019. “I assumed reporting Steam abuse might have its own issues. But when people suggested that I open a ticket, I did have hope that this would be the way to get it resolved.”

      One of the reviews, published in 2023, read, “cringe game, made by a liar”. The other, a review of Lawhead’s game Blue Suburbia posted in 2024, said: “A women [sic] who seeks to destroy other’s [sic] career made this. It’s very poorly put together. She also probably has dual Israeli citizenship with how pointy her nose is.”

      Despite Steam’s code of online conduct and community guidelines prohibiting “abusive language or insults”, public accusations or “discrimination”, moderators initially cleared both reviews after Lawhead reported them.

      What’s with Lemmy users and lying and bending backwards to shield poor indie dev company Valve from harassment? Does Gabe’s dick taste that good?

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      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Honest question, do you think someone replying to a thing in a public forum “cringe thing made by a liar” is actually harassment and should be forcefully removed just because the dev doesn’t like it?

        The seems too far censorship to me.

        The antisemitism yeah get rid of that shit

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• Ryoae@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah but what good is reporting when Valve themselves takes what feels like an eternity, getting down to dealing with just a few?

  Eventually, they’re going to be faced with making one of two choices; Shut down the discussions board to a particular game for violating ToS or let it go unchecked for however long.

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