Should active members of the Steam forum receive rewards?

[Ni-Neith]

As many people know (and some still do not know),
one of the goals of this forum is to attract new customers and try to keep "old" customers and get them to buy new games.

Therefore, naturally, the question arises, what does Valve owe us for our forum activity?

From my point of view, it is not necessary to pay for a certain number of posts on the Steam forums to a bank account or card.
Perhaps it could be any games, or just replenishment of the balance for the purchase of games of the buyer's choice.

What do you think about it?

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Originally posted by Bugor:

Originally posted by Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥):

Simple: the way it is now.
Actually, scratch that. Remove being able to give out awards to any Threads/Posts on the forums.

But a lot of people are interested in it.
They collect points, some badges in the form of a reward for messages. This diversifies their gaming pastime.

No, what it does is motivate people to make Bait and Troll Threads to get awarded with Jesters.
It's bad. Them getting points for it is the exact problem i'm describing.

[Nx Machina]

Posting on the forums is voluntary not mandatory.

Secondly in response to:

Originally posted by Bugor:

Perhaps it could be any games

Zero benefit to Valve as they do not own any third party game on the Steam platform.

Originally posted by Bugor:

or just replenishment of the balance for the purchase of games of the buyer's choice.

They already do, know as refunding.

[Ni-Neith]

Originally posted by Odra:

Indeed, as always with "gimme gimme gimme" thread that is solely engineered to get free stuff while thinly being disguised as beneficial to all parties.

Odra! You talk like it's about your own finances :))
I ask you to take my word for it, even if they give me a game worth a thousand dollars now, it will very little change my financial situation;)

I have a completely different interest. Steam, this is a very interesting playground. And for all its shortcomings, a lot has been done and it is very different from the same ones, for example, Ubisoft or Epic Games for the better.

But, at the same time, there is something to change here for a more comfortable environment for buyers and players. It would be strange to refuse it.

[nullable]

Valve owes us nothing. Participating in a forum doesn't warrant compensation of any kind. It never has on any forum I've been a part of for the last 25 years.

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Originally posted by Bugor:

Originally posted by Odra:

Indeed, as always with "gimme gimme gimme" thread that is solely engineered to get free stuff while thinly being disguised as beneficial to all parties.

Odra! You talk like it's about your own finances :))
I ask you to take my word for it, even if they give me a game worth a thousand dollars now, it will very little change my financial situation;)

I have a completely different interest. Steam, this is a very interesting playground. And for all its shortcomings, a lot has been done and it is very different from the same ones, for example, Ubisoft or Epic Games for the better.

But, at the same time, there is something to change here for a more comfortable environment for buyers and players. It would be strange to refuse it.

It would be strange to add this. You have been given plenty of reasons why this is a a horrible idea.

[Ni-Neith]

Originally posted by Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥):

No, what it does is motivate people to make Bait and Troll Threads to get awarded with Jesters.
It's bad. Them getting points for it is the exact problem i'm describing.

Maybe it's called democracy?
And people themselves decide who to give what?

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by Bugor:

Originally posted by Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥):

Simple: the way it is now.
Actually, scratch that. Remove being able to give out awards to any Threads/Posts on the forums.

But a lot of people are interested in it.
They collect points, some badges in the form of a reward for messages. This diversifies their gaming pastime.

Which they can still do buy buying games, as I think it should be. In fact I personally think we should only be able to spend points on things associated with games we own.

I don't really care one way or another about giving point awards to others though, although some seem to get bent out of shape over them.

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Originally posted by Bugor:

Originally posted by Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥):

No, what it does is motivate people to make Bait and Troll Threads to get awarded with Jesters.
It's bad. Them getting points for it is the exact problem i'm describing.

Maybe it's called democracy?
And people themselves decide who to give what?

You are literally the only one who wants this weird "whatever this is" system.
Democracy means people have voted no. Your idea is not good.

[Ni-Neith]

Originally posted by nullable:

Valve owes us nothing. Participating in a forum doesn't warrant compensation of any kind. It never has on any forum I've been a part of for the last 25 years.

You yourself said that this is a really new idea.
Which requires at least discussion.

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Originally posted by Bugor:

Originally posted by nullable:

Valve owes us nothing. Participating in a forum doesn't warrant compensation of any kind. It never has on any forum I've been a part of for the last 25 years.

You yourself said that this is a really new idea.
Which requires at least discussion.

It's clear that people do not like your idea, and for good reason.

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by Bugor:

Originally posted by nullable:

Valve owes us nothing. Participating in a forum doesn't warrant compensation of any kind. It never has on any forum I've been a part of for the last 25 years.

You yourself said that this is a really new idea.
Which requires at least discussion.

Sure! It doesn't require discussion, but discussion is certainly encouraged - And it is being discussed. Unfortunately it doesn't seem that many share your opinion, for reasons which have been part of the discussion.

[Ni-Neith]

This is the trouble with Steam, that out of 100 million users on the forum, a couple of dozen active users solve all issues. This is not democracy, this is the path to the degradation of the gaming platform.

By increasing the activity of users, we will get dozens and hundreds of new ideas for the development of the platform.

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Originally posted by Bugor:

This is the trouble with Steam, that out of 100 million users on the forum, a couple of dozen active users solve all issues. This is not democracy, this is the path to the degradation of the gaming platform.

By increasing the activity of users, we will get dozens and hundreds of new ideas for the development of the platform.

Again, the only activity you will get here are thousands of Spam and Troll Threads.
The Community Badge used to have a Task to make a post in the forums. That was LONG LONG ago.

And EVEN TODAY people still post Spam because they think they get a Level for their badge.
This is a horrible idea.

[Ni-Neith]

Originally posted by Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥):

Again, the only activity you will get here are thousands of Spam and Troll Threads.

Unfortunately, even that is not here.
About a dozen active users, that's the whole Steam resource on this forum.

[BJWyler]

Originally posted by Bugor:

As many people know (and some still do not know),
one of the goals of this forum is to attract new customers and try to keep "old" customers and get them to buy new games.

Therefore, naturally, the question arises, what does Valve owe us for our forum activity?

From my point of view, it is not necessary to pay for a certain number of posts on the Steam forums to a bank account or card.
Perhaps it could be any games, or just replenishment of the balance for the purchase of games of the buyer's choice.

What do you think about it?

There should be nothing. The goal of the forums is for Steam Users to have discussions with one another - nothing more and nothing less. This incessant need of people to try to wring free stuff out of Valve is quite ridiculous. Quite frankly, they should eliminate being able to award forum posts with the Points Awards. There should be absolutely nothing gained from posting in any forum except for the free exchange of ideas (within the rules of the forum, of course).

Originally posted by Bugor:

This is the trouble with Steam, that out of 100 million users on the forum, a couple of dozen active users solve all issues. This is not democracy, this is the path to the degradation of the gaming platform.

By increasing the activity of users, we will get dozens and hundreds of new ideas for the development of the platform.

Oh please. Forum use is relegated to a very small minority of users because only a very small minority of users are interested in partaking. Offering incentives to go on the forums is the pathway to utter uselessness and chaos in a forum space. Just to note, not every idea is a good idea. In fact, statistically, there are many more bad ideas than good ones that are made public in a setting like this. And the idea of rewarding people who are active in a forum for being active in a forum is one of the worst I have ever heard.