Suggestions to remove Jester award

[Yuuka enjoyer]

So, I know it is used to call someone else as a "clown", which is aggressive/malicious. But due to its point awarding nature, it could just give free points against users who spreading misinformation or negative feedback (like racist stuffs, joking the game without completely understand it), overall encouraging such act instead.

Moreover, people who understand this case that players are willing to pay precious points to mock others will just create bait posts to create controversies, this won't help to create a positive and helpful community but instead inspire others to keep the flame go on for the "awards".

Now if you excuse me, I am going to lock this thing down so it won't be marked as a jester award baiting post.

[Trollhammer]

Meanwhile it looks like the OP is successfully farming the award he despises so much...

[Angel666]

is there not some competition going on at this point to get the most clowns.

If steam wanted get people spend more points on rewards i suggest cute anime girls be used as rewards .

[Trollhammer]

Origineel geplaatst door Angel666:

is there not some competition going on at this point to get the most clowns.

If steam wanted get people spend more points on rewards i suggest cute anime girls be used as rewards .

No thanks, the point shop is already overburdened with that kind of things.

[Pierce Dalton]

Origineel geplaatst door ᠌ ⁧⁧Tsubame ⭐:

This award is supposed to be given to something funny, not as downvoting. Your mind makes it so.

Just sit down and enjoy the free points.

Dear Tsubame,

You're just being naive, my friend. If you pay enough attention, you might realize there are various posts here on this thread that aren't funny in the slightest, but somehow received a jester award. How would you explain such strange occurrence?

[Annihilator]

I have x8 jester i collect it :D

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Origineel geplaatst door Pierce Dalton:

Origineel geplaatst door ᠌ ⁧⁧Tsubame ⭐:

This award is supposed to be given to something funny, not as downvoting. Your mind makes it so.

Just sit down and enjoy the free points.

Dear Tsubame,

You're just being naive, my friend. If you pay enough attention, you might realize there are various posts here on this thread that aren't funny in the slightest, but somehow received a jester award. How would you explain such strange occurrence?

Humor is subjective. It doesnt have rules.

[Pierce Dalton]

Origineel geplaatst door AmsterdamHeavy:

Origineel geplaatst door Pierce Dalton:

Dear Tsubame,

You're just being naive, my friend. If you pay enough attention, you might realize there are various posts here on this thread that aren't funny in the slightest, but somehow received a jester award. How would you explain such strange occurrence?

Humor is subjective. It doesnt have rules.

So you consider them funny? All of them?

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Origineel geplaatst door Pierce Dalton:

Origineel geplaatst door AmsterdamHeavy:

Humor is subjective. It doesnt have rules.

So you consider them funny? All of them?

Nope. Im also not everyone and their weird sense of humor, either. What I find funny is irrelevant.

[Pierce Dalton]

Origineel geplaatst door AmsterdamHeavy:

Origineel geplaatst door Pierce Dalton:

So you consider them funny? All of them?

Nope. Im also not everyone and their weird sense of humor, either. What I find funny is irrelevant.

Indeed, one must have a very weird and unique sense of humor to find the first reply funny, for example.

You could show that to a million people but none of them would find it funny...

[Brian9824]

Don't see any issue with it, if you remove everything that someone finds offensive you will be left with nothing afterall.....

[Pierce Dalton]

Origineel geplaatst door brian9824:

Don't see any issue with it, if you remove everything that someone finds offensive you will be left with nothing afterall.....

Not really. How could someone consider the heart award offensive, for example?

[Brian9824]

Origineel geplaatst door Pierce Dalton:

Origineel geplaatst door brian9824:

Don't see any issue with it, if you remove everything that someone finds offensive you will be left with nothing afterall.....

Not really. How could someone consider the heart award offensive, for example?

Valentines day itself is banned in some countries and people find the concept offensive as the heart symbol is seen by some as a commercial exploitation, others take offense at overt signs of affection, others find it sexist since its origins is from pagan imagery for orgies, others take issue with it due to them identifying as asexual, etc.

There will ALWAYS be someone offended by the world we live in, its why we can't have a Christmas party and instead have to have a WINTER party at our schools, because people will be offended over anything whether it hurts them or not.

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Origineel geplaatst door Pierce Dalton:

Origineel geplaatst door brian9824:

Don't see any issue with it, if you remove everything that someone finds offensive you will be left with nothing afterall.....

Not really. How could someone consider the heart award offensive, for example?

You give it to a post where someone has said that people should be murdered. That's how.

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To clarify something, I'm not saying that the jester award can never be used in a mean-spirited context, just that it's not malicious.
There's an enormous difference between mean-spiritedness & maliciousness.

And people seeking to be "bully-hunters" only serves to commit further rude actions via retaliation & even escalated retaliation that results in actual harms (instead of just rudeness), when they inevitably wind-up misidentifying well-meaning people as bullies.

[Brian9824]

Origineel geplaatst door Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏:

Origineel geplaatst door Pierce Dalton:

Not really. How could someone consider the heart award offensive, for example?

You give it to a post where someone has said that people should be murdered. That's how.

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To clarify something, I'm not saying that the jester award can never be used in a mean-spirited context, just that it's not malicious.
There's an enormous difference between mean-spiritedness & maliciousness.

And people seeking to be "bully-hunters" only serves to commit further rude actions via retaliation & even escalated retaliation that results in actual harms (instead of just rudeness), when they inevitably wind-up misidentifying well-meaning people as bullies. :seewhatyoudid:

True, or ban russians (love)
ban people of a sexual orientation (love)

Anything can be used badly and used to offend people, the answer isn't to remove everything that might possibly offend someone as we'd have nothing left.

Some people just need thicker skin sadly, and freak out if anyone says anything they percieve as bad. We see it all the time especially on the suggestion forum where people freak out and attack people if they point out flaws in an idea because they feel that they are being attacked.

People have even made suggestions about removing the entirety of Steam's forums hurting millions of users because they got offended over something someone said.... Hence why the solution is never to just remove stuff because someone somewhere can be offended by it, its for people to fix their thinking so they aren't offended by it in the first place.

[Pierce Dalton]

Origineel geplaatst door Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏:

Origineel geplaatst door Pierce Dalton:

Not really. How could someone consider the heart award offensive, for example?

You give it to a post where someone has said that people should be murdered. That's how.

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To clarify something, I'm not saying that the jester award can never be used in a mean-spirited context, just that it's not malicious.
There's an enormous difference between mean-spiritedness & maliciousness.

And people seeking to be "bully-hunters" only serves to commit further rude actions via retaliation & even escalated retaliation that results in actual harms (instead of just rudeness), when they inevitably wind-up misidentifying well-meaning people as bullies. :seewhatyoudid:

Dear Kiddiecat,

That would only express agreement with the poster, unfortunately you didn't understand the question, so allow me to rephrase it:

How could the awarded user find the heart award offensive?