Please create a more organized Steam forum.

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Everything is a mess. All of the discussion boards are practically listed in one single spot and looks like a disorganized and dirty room. For me, at least its a pain to go through the discussion posts on Steam.

I think that Steam should add more subforums to organize these discussion boards.

Some Ideas:

New Posts subforum: Contains all of the newest posts within a subforum.

Rising Posts subforum: Contains the posts which have the most highest number of views within a particular time frame within a subforum.

So, what do you think about this?

[Baum]

The newest threads show up at the first page and there at the top anyway. More subforums would cause even more confusion and would not organzie the forum well.

[Hextravert]

Great suggestions.

Although I don't think it looks like a disorganized and dirty room right now.

And they'd have to tell us how often a thread has been viewed so far, for starters.

Originally posted by Neverland:

Everything is a mess. All of the discussion boards are practically listed in one single spot and looks like a disorganized and dirty room.

I think that Steam should add more subforums to organize these discussion boards.

Some Ideas:

New Posts subforum: Contains all of the newest posts within a subforum.

Rising Posts subforum: Contains the posts which have the most highest number of views within a particular time frame within a subforum.

So, what do you think about this?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Baum:

The newest threads show up at the first page and there at the top anyway. More subforums would cause even more confusion and would not organzie the forum well.

with more random necro's from players "trying" to get the badge.

[Baum]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Baum:

The newest threads show up at the first page and there at the top anyway. More subforums would cause even more confusion and would not organzie the forum well.

with more random necro's from players "trying" to get the badge.

:qr:

Good point.

[BOT Karen]

I dont see the messiness tbh maybe thats just me though

[Gwarsbane]

Everything looks good the way it is now. No need to have a subform just for new or rising posts...

There are already sections to spread things out, hardware, help, vac and so on.

[Zefar]

Originally posted by Neverland:

Some Ideas:

New Posts subforum: Contains all of the newest posts within a subforum.

Or you could just check the newest posted thread in the section which is at the top or check threads with 0 posts.

Originally posted by Neverland:

Rising Posts subforum: Contains the posts which have the most highest number of views within a particular time frame within a subforum.

So, what do you think about this?

This would generally just favor certain threads and leave most others to die rather quickly. It might also be reviving threads that are done because they have just gotten a lot of traffic.


I think what you want is a Reddit style of these forums and that is most likely not gonna happen.

Each forum section shows the topic with the newest post in at the top. So the further back you go the older it gets. It's the normal style for most discussion boards.
The reason for subsections is because in game forums you can add sections like "Bugs" "Help and Tips" and others to split up the forum posts a bit. Rather than one large section.

This feature is controlled by the Developer though and most of them ignore the discussion part. Which isn't all that good.

[Fox]

Originally posted by Baum:

The newest threads show up at the first page and there at the top anyway. More subforums would cause even more confusion and would not organzie the forum well.

^ This.

The main board certainly isn't the most organized and may benefit from a reorganisation, but I'm not a fan of the "most recent" and "most viewed" whole subsections.

If anything, rather than additions, I'd rather see the main sections and the official groups be reorganized properly instead (and the language-specific boards expanded to the English ones, this being a pet peeve of mine).

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Originally posted by Fox:

Originally posted by Baum:

The newest threads show up at the first page and there at the top anyway. More subforums would cause even more confusion and would not organzie the forum well.

^ This.

The main board certainly isn't the most organized and may benefit from a reorganisation, but I'm not a fan of the "most recent" and "most viewed" whole subsections.

If anything, rather than additions, I'd rather see the main sections and the official groups be reorganized properly instead (and the language-specific boards expanded to the English ones, this being a pet peeve of mine).

Well whatever will make the Steam discussion boards more organized will help. For me, at least these discussion boards on Steam give me a huge headache to go through.

There must be something Valve can do to make these discussion boards better.

[TheStoryteller01]

I'm all for forums that are strictly organized when it's about a certain game beause I mostly use it to get/share information about specs, bugs, content, etc.

But the Steam forums with all the odds & ends, bits & pieces, rants & whatsnot? No need imo.

[saaya]

i think reigning in all the trolls and off topic random posts is the biggest problem in the steam forums. there are too many people in here that seem to be chained to their computer and have nothing better to do than randomly blurt our their opinion on everything in random topics, or they spend all day posting in dozens of topics on how they disagree with everyone haha

But yeah, organizing the forums better would be nice, totally agree!
a sub section with big popular discussions would be nice so they dont get bumped down by new posts
and polls would be nice...
steam should have a ton of polls to gather feedback so valve can get a better idea of what people think of this n that... now its all about whoever screams the loudest and spams the most gets the most attention lol