#SaveSteam

[Jon the VGNerd 887]

Being a Steam user since 2011, I noticed that Valve seems to hire bots for moderators that haven't been able to differentiate between normal users who abide the rules and trolls that not only deliberately break the rules, but also somehow manage to evade any and all bans. Now, I know what you're thinking, everyone; why not block, report and move on? That could work, but here's the problem; reports are rarely handled, if at all, and the offenders? They continue to remain active with no sufficient comeuppance. And that issue was widespread when Team Fortress 2 had a serious bot and cheater problem that was rarely dealt with until a petition was created under #SaveTF2, which took at least thousands of signatures for Valve to feel the pressure and start adding actual anti-cheat measures to make TF2 better... to only a degree, of course.

Now, to give a long story short, Steam as a platform is, to put it simply, troubled. Why? Because Steam's forums is rather anarchic at best, likely owing to the aforementioned reasons above from bad apples, namely elitists, that love to start trouble and get away scot-free, regardless of reports handed to them. And even if they were dealt with, they come back after an indeterminable amount of time and resume their antics. All while Steam moderators do... absolutely nothing apart from banning the wrong users for trivial reasons.

There is a petition which is relatively similar to the TF2 situation, only this time it involves the platform itself and Valve's incredibly poor handling of moderating their own forums. If you are a Steam user (be it currently or formerly), here is the link in case you want to make it happen like with Save TF2, known as Save Steam.

Gaben better wake up and smell the burning hardware, because as popular as Steam is, its rather become too popular for its own good and Valve's obvious lack of communication is starting to show, namely on both Twitter/X and on Steam. GOG is looking like a future contender for Steam, and ironically, despite it being very niche, at least they know how to respond to their community unlike Valve.

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