Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content

• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are the forums moderated at all? All I see is people being terrible to each other. I also saw someone requesting a Brazilian Portuguese translation for a game and people calling them a fucking idiot and telling them to learn english.

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s up to each game dev to police their forums, AFAIK.

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    • Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Can they disable their steam forums if they don’t want to moderate them?

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      • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s a good question. I would hope so!

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      • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes, some are completely read only

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  • Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s almost no moderation on Steam at all. Sometimes threads advocating violence get removed, or threads with a lot of hate get locked but it’s almost always long after the damage has been done and often times the ones doing nasty shit don’t end up getting banned.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t use steam forums. But I have questions. Do the steam forums have any moderation at all? Is there a report button? Can you report comments or forum threads?

  I want to know because I feel like a lot of social media has the same problem as steam forums and these tools exist on the majority of those. They rely on the moderation of fellow users.

  I also question whether or not steam actually has an automod or anything like that. Or human moderators.

  Please keep in mind that I don’t use the forums so I really have no idea. This is the first time I’m hearing about this, and I’m interested in knowing more.

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