I had a person tell me in game they hate black people, then left a comment on my profile referring to black people as black monkeys. I reported them. About five times. Steam does nothing. Their comment would be still up if I haven’t removed it manually after one of many reports resulting in nothing. Their profile is full of proof of it being a long term continuous effort. Their account has a high level, which makes me think it may be why Steam seems to be protecting them. I reported people in the past and stuff was done about it. It’s my first time dealing with blatant racism AND no moderation effort from Steam. I even ended up messaging steam support about my concerns and got a generic response which amounted to nothing.
I see people speaking up about poor moderation on other platforms, so I chose to speak up about Steam’s as I’m really tired of this bullshit.
Cool, who is that person? Can you link their steam profile here? Perhaps someone from Valve may see your comment and the person will be banned. Otherwise why are you protecting that persons anonymity?
Found the murderer.
No, please no witch-hunts. That never leads to anything good. Just report, block and move on. Nothing else that can be done on an individual level.
And I highly doubt anyone from Valve hangs out on here. They absolutely do on r/steam but probably not here.
That’s not cool. How long did you wait for them to act? I guess it can take some time until they went through all reports. Moderating is a time-intensive process. But if that’s not the case here, then I agree with you that this sucks and there should be consequences.
You can tell a profile report was dismissed when you can report the person again. If you try to report again and it’s not dismissed, it will tell you you’ve reported the person already.
Can’t you just block them and move along?
You’ve done all you can do
They’re gonna protect their whales. It’s like Facebook, I report outright calls to violence, doing, and hate speech all the time to be told it “doesn’t violate TOS” but I make one comment that “hiding behind Christianity to justify your hate is bullshit” got me a hate speech ding on my account in under 5 minutes.
No idea how high their level is, but $20 and a handful of games is roughly what it takes to get an account to lvl 25 or so.
Do you mean putting $20 in your steam wallet? I know someone with 197 games whose only lvl 11.
We need a federated game launcher platform!
Some guy on Mastodon already made some framework for achievements, so it’s not undoable. Issue would be a copy protection, which depending on your standpoint, either is completely malicious, a necessary evil, or a mandatory thing for anything other than a free game made as an experiment. Having an open source copy protection method would immediately guarantee a workaround, the best we could achieve is to disable some official servers, achievements, etc.
Link to the project? I’d like to follow the repo if possible!
@kryllic @ZILtoid1991 There are several repos for #Gamerzilla as it has the server implementation, the C library to add it to games and several other libraries for various languages.
https://identicalsoftware.com/gamerzilla/It’s called #Gamerzilla, and the dev’s at is @dulsi
I’m sorry you went through that, but I want to thank you for having the courage to speak up. It may be worth speaking to some game journalists and sharing your story.
Many journalists care deeply about holding truth to power and would love to help pressure for Valve to better moderate the community they run.
First: fuck racism and trolls.
Second: it’s the internet, quit feeding the trolls. Why bother reporting them? They suck, they are going to do it again. Ignore and move on. Internet 101.
Third: profile page? I have looked at that maybe a dozen times in the last 19 years. I really don’t care about it. However: I did review my settings and I do keep mine locked down.
I despise these idiots that are looking for attention. They have been around since the old bbs days and they are not going away. We simply ignore them, block them, and take away what they are asking for: attention.
When I encounter such nonsense on lemmy, I block them and move on. Steam has the same capability. Does it work for in-game communication? If so then that’s what I would suggest.
If you removed the comment manually then stop complaining. People suck, shit happens, toughen up buttercup
