Valve does not care about you.

[exojjl2]

Valve continues to allow people to send me potential or suspicious content but previously banned me for inquiring here and asking for help about such suspected malicious content.

[exojjl2]

Publicado originalmente por Gin:

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

You're inability to spell is irrelevant.

Meanwhile you write "you're" ...

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ spell check phone I know

[exojjl2]

Publicado originalmente por Gin:

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

You're inability to spell is irrelevant.

Meanwhile you write "you're" ...

Thank you for pointing that out actually. I will be going back to that and correcting it. I do typically rough draft everything I type or spell but you know sometimes a few errors get through. So thank you for pointing out my spelling errors. it will now be corrected.

[peppermint hollows]

OP, maybe it's time to just take this as a lesson of caution for the future and move on?

I didn't interpret Crazy Tiger's initial reply to you as an insult. Just a statement of facts - it's already been discussed here thoroughly, the reason why a ban was triggered was because you posted the link. It's true that Valve agreed that the ban was not justified but the reason why was because a human reviewed the ban and understood your actual intent.

The automated filter cannot know your intent and it's safer for the sake of other users to delete posts from users which contain known phishing or scam links. As for a ban, maybe it's harsh, but it's also probably better for Steam to not take any chances. If it's false you can contact Steam support as you had done and get it lifted.

People here are just trying to help you and telling you why what happened, had happened. But you're meeting a lot of neutral statements that are just speaking matter-of-factly with completely unneeded hostility.

[exojjl2]

Publicado originalmente por Gin:

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

You're inability to spell is irrelevant.

Meanwhile you write "you're" ...

Thank you and the spelling error has now been corrected. So now how may I help you?

[exojjl2]

Publicado originalmente por peppermint hollows:

OP, maybe it's time to just take this as a lesson of caution for the future and move on?

I didn't interpret Crazy Tiger's initial reply to you as an insult. Just a statement of facts - it's already been discussed here thoroughly, the reason why a ban was triggered was because you posted the link. It's true that Valve agreed that the ban was not justified but the reason why was because a human reviewed the ban and understood your actual intent.

The automated filter cannot know your intent and it's safer for the sake of other users to delete posts from users which contain known phishing or scam links. As for a ban, maybe it's harsh, but it's also probably better for Steam to not take any chances. If it's false you can contact Steam support as you had done and get it lifted.

People here are just trying to help you and telling you why what happened, had happened. But you're meeting a lot of neutral statements that are just speaking matter-of-factly with completely unneeded hostility.

Thank you for your help. As previous users stated best policy is the Valve/Steam policy....Do absolutely nothing. Got it. I understand. Now I understand I won't do anything or post or inquiry any sort of help from Steam Community because no gives a ♥♥♥♥ any more.

Steam is dead in the water when it comes to helping it's community of users. Understood.

[exojjl2]

You know what ♥♥♥♥ it I love hackers and scammers! Give me more reasons to rant about corporations since those corps love hackers and scammers anyways they write off all those losses on their taxes anyways.

[peppermint hollows]

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

Publicado originalmente por peppermint hollows:

OP, maybe it's time to just take this as a lesson of caution for the future and move on?

I didn't interpret Crazy Tiger's initial reply to you as an insult. Just a statement of facts - it's already been discussed here thoroughly, the reason why a ban was triggered was because you posted the link. It's true that Valve agreed that the ban was not justified but the reason why was because a human reviewed the ban and understood your actual intent.

The automated filter cannot know your intent and it's safer for the sake of other users to delete posts from users which contain known phishing or scam links. As for a ban, maybe it's harsh, but it's also probably better for Steam to not take any chances. If it's false you can contact Steam support as you had done and get it lifted.

People here are just trying to help you and telling you why what happened, had happened. But you're meeting a lot of neutral statements that are just speaking matter-of-factly with completely unneeded hostility.

Thank you for your help. As previous users stated best policy is the Valve/Steam policy....Do absolutely nothing. Got it. I understand. Now I understand I won't do anything or post or inquiry any sort of help from Steam Community because no gives a ♥♥♥♥ any more.

Steam is dead in the water when it comes to helping it's community of users. Understood.

As somebody else told you whoever was sending you those links to begin with was most likely a hijacked account to begin with. So Steam may lock those accounts but not necessarily ban them, which gives the original owners a chance to recover their accounts. And if nobody cared, nobody would bother replying to your post to begin with, much less explaining to you all these things that have been explained to you about what happened and why. Again, people here are just trying to help you and you should try not to take people's matter-of-fact tones as insults or lack of care. It's the exact opposite. We are just trying to explain to you in a way that's as clear as possible.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

Valve continues to allow people to send me potential or suspicious content but previously banned me for inquiring here and asking for help about such suspected malicious content.

How are these people sending you these content exactly? Chat, and/or group chat?

If it a friend sending things you don't like, tell them you don't want them send you anymore of said things. If they keep doing it, just unfriend them that simple. If it a group chat, can either block said person that hide whatever the post in group chat, or just leave the group chat that simple.

If you're posting something that agasint Steam forum rules that may be reason why you're getting banned. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6862-8119-C23E-EA7B

Publicado originalmente por ken87:

Wake up and smell the coffee NO company cares about you or anyone else.

^This, and it true been that was since dawn of time.

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

Publicado originalmente por Lilim:

I doubt that.

This is literally the case here. I have some random friends I made playing some games a few Chinese. They kept sending me these suspicious links. I reported most of them. So I finally I posted this suspicious link to the Steam community inquiring about it and what to do further. Steam literally banned me stating it was a contradictory "Permanent Suspension" meaning that suspension is is temporary. That made no sense. This was for hilariously "spamming" the community with "malicious content."
Literally no one bothered to try and help me with this situation and I was permanently banned by Steam. I had to appeal and make my case against Steam stating this and showing how Steam several times has violated it's own Rules and Guidelines policy and took sides with the scam links. My account ban was ultimately uplifted.

So before you want to doubt everything I am saying I've taken a multitude of screenshots (I've done a great job documenting every claim here) showing how Steam failed to help me and took sides on the scammers. I have copied and pasted several sent messages into .txt files as well showcasing my case against Steam and how they have failed to help me but banned me rather than actually banning people who have sent me multiple times scam or malicious content links. This has been going on for the last 6 months and those Steam users sending me malicious content have not ever been banned or suspended and continue to thrive on Steam.

It's likely were posting you a scam link, if all they were doing is spamming links to sites to you, and because you posting a scam link on Steam forum that why you got post deleted, and message temp ban, or warning.

Name shaming isn't allowed, and posting scam links isn't allowed either here, if want to report link, you contact support, and report it to them, and report the profiles that sending you scam links, then unfriend them, and block them so they can't send anything else to you no more, nor contact you again.

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

Publicado originalmente por Yiffy the furry LGBT Cat:

Yeah... a bit harsh but definitely understandable though, you put other users at risk.

happy that you got unbanned tho since it was just a misunderstanding

If you receive suspicious links:
Block the users, report them and then... forget about the entire situation

Yes, I am sorry and I understand that now that posting the link could put others at risk. I did not mean to do that, but it's ridiculous Steam still lets those users go abound.

Yes correct it can put others at risk because there are people that plain too dumb, and gullible, and to help avoid them from falling for phishing attacks those sites links get deleted from the forum, and account get warning, or even temp ban. If want to report things you report it to support, and they will check out the site, even if it phishing site they added to the blacklist of sties to blocking them.

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

Okay well thank you then you've literally been more helpful than anyone else here including Valve. I value your input here and again I take this as the moral of the story and do as Valve does "don't do ♥♥♥♥ about anything."

Sorry I wasted every ones time on matters no one gives a ♥♥♥♥ about anymore.

The problem is that even if you warn us of a link, this doesn't solve the problem as scammers changed their domain name all the time, takes only seconds for them to setup a new link, then repeat the scam again. It's not that no one cares, it the fact this is so common for years, that best can do is inform people they need to be aware what they do online, the problem is that most people don't read these forums, some people either ignore people warnings, some will be too ignorant for their own good thinking it won't apply to them, or even got gullible people that clueless about these things that does what someone tells them to do without thinking.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

You're not supposed to post phishing links. Your PSA wasn't needed anyway because this is a well-known scam.

[exojjl2]

Publicado originalmente por Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

Valve continues to allow people to send me potential or suspicious content but previously banned me for inquiring here and asking for help about such suspected malicious content.

How are these people sending you these content exactly? Chat, and/or group chat?

If it a friend sending things you don't like, tell them you don't want them send you anymore of said things. If they keep doing it, just unfriend them that simple. If it a group chat, can either block said person that hide whatever the post in group chat, or just leave the group chat that simple.

If you're posting something that agasint Steam forum rules that may be reason why you're getting banned. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6862-8119-C23E-EA7B

Publicado originalmente por ken87:

Wake up and smell the coffee NO company cares about you or anyone else.

^This, and it true been that was since dawn of time.

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

This is literally the case here. I have some random friends I made playing some games a few Chinese. They kept sending me these suspicious links. I reported most of them. So I finally I posted this suspicious link to the Steam community inquiring about it and what to do further. Steam literally banned me stating it was a contradictory "Permanent Suspension" meaning that suspension is is temporary. That made no sense. This was for hilariously "spamming" the community with "malicious content."
Literally no one bothered to try and help me with this situation and I was permanently banned by Steam. I had to appeal and make my case against Steam stating this and showing how Steam several times has violated it's own Rules and Guidelines policy and took sides with the scam links. My account ban was ultimately uplifted.

So before you want to doubt everything I am saying I've taken a multitude of screenshots (I've done a great job documenting every claim here) showing how Steam failed to help me and took sides on the scammers. I have copied and pasted several sent messages into .txt files as well showcasing my case against Steam and how they have failed to help me but banned me rather than actually banning people who have sent me multiple times scam or malicious content links. This has been going on for the last 6 months and those Steam users sending me malicious content have not ever been banned or suspended and continue to thrive on Steam.

It's likely were posting you a scam link, if all they were doing is spamming links to sites to you, and because you posting a scam link on Steam forum that why you got post deleted, and message temp ban, or warning.

Name shaming isn't allowed, and posting scam links isn't allowed either here, if want to report link, you contact support, and report it to them, and report the profiles that sending you scam links, then unfriend them, and block them so they can't send anything else to you no more, nor contact you again.

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

Yes, I am sorry and I understand that now that posting the link could put others at risk. I did not mean to do that, but it's ridiculous Steam still lets those users go abound.

Yes correct it can put others at risk because there are people that plain too dumb, and gullible, and to help avoid them from falling for phishing attacks those sites links get deleted from the forum, and account get warning, or even temp ban. If want to report things you report it to support, and they will check out the site, even if it phishing site they added to the blacklist of sties to blocking them.

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

Okay well thank you then you've literally been more helpful than anyone else here including Valve. I value your input here and again I take this as the moral of the story and do as Valve does "don't do ♥♥♥♥ about anything."

Sorry I wasted every ones time on matters no one gives a ♥♥♥♥ about anymore.

The problem is that even if you warn us of a link, this doesn't solve the problem as scammers changed their domain name all the time, takes only seconds for them to setup a new link, then repeat the scam again. It's not that no one cares, it the fact this is so common for years, that best can do is inform people they need to be aware what they do online, the problem is that most people don't read these forums, some people either ignore people warnings, some will be too ignorant for their own good thinking it won't apply to them, or even got gullible people that clueless about these things that does what someone tells them to do without thinking.

okay so as before part of my inquiry seeking help was also showing awareness. But I now realize I should basically do absolutely nothing.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

No what you should have done was report the account as compromised and leave it at that.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6639-EB3C-EC79-FF60

That FAQ is why you didn't need to post any type of awareness. You are warned never to click unknown links from untrusted sources, even if they come from a friends' account.

[exojjl2]

Publicado originalmente por C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

You're not supposed to post phishing links. Your PSA wasn't needed anyway because this is a well-known scam.

There is literally by Steam Rules and Guidelines no basic definition of malicious content. The Steam rules and guidelines does not say anything about posting phishing links. So you are trying to make up rules as you go along just like Steam does. So here's the thing the Steam "Rules And Guidelines" literally says that "repeated" offensives would result in a permanent ban. I pointed out to Steam that they are not following their own rules because this was a one time supposed offense. Furthermore Steams Rules and Guideline policies constantly uses contradictory language that does not make any or sense in most context. If you study any sort of law or even language (I've studied some Constitutional law) it's actually quite funny reading Steams "Rules & Guidelines" because of how vague and negligent they are. Most of the rules really don't make much sense in a specific term but is more generic and interpretive. Really quite sad because this allows Steam to try and make up it's own rules as it goes much like communistic Russia does.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

Publicado originalmente por C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

You're not supposed to post phishing links. Your PSA wasn't needed anyway because this is a well-known scam.

There is literally by Steam Rules and Guidelines no basic definition of malicious content. The Steam rules and guidelines does not say anything about posting phishing links. So you are trying to make up rules as you go along just like Steam does. So here's the thing the Steam "Rules And Guidelines" literally says that "repeateded" offensives would result in a permanent ban. I pointed out to Steam that they are not following their own rules because this was a one time supposed offense.

"Scamming or deception"

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6862-8119-C23E-EA7B

It's right there. You knew it was a phishing link as you deliberately had to censor it to post it.

?

Bypassing the content filter is also a violation of the rules.

[exojjl2]

Publicado originalmente por C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

There is literally by Steam Rules and Guidelines no basic definition of malicious content. The Steam rules and guidelines does not say anything about posting phishing links. So you are trying to make up rules as you go along just like Steam does. So here's the thing the Steam "Rules And Guidelines" literally says that "repeateded" offensives would result in a permanent ban. I pointed out to Steam that they are not following their own rules because this was a one time supposed offense.

"Scamming or deception"

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6862-8119-C23E-EA7B

It's right there. You knew it was a phishing link as you deliberately had to censor it to post it.

?

No, you literally came into the middle of this conversation making an ignorant post about nothing you have any knowledge of. Please read my previous post.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Publicado originalmente por exojjl2:

Publicado originalmente por C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

"Scamming or deception"

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6862-8119-C23E-EA7B

It's right there. You knew it was a phishing link as you deliberately had to censor it to post it.

?

No, you literally came into the middle of this conversation making an ignorant post about nothing you have any knowledge of. Please read my previous post.

You're the one not reading. If you had bothered to read the information in the two links I posted, you'd know. You knowingly posted a phishing link and were punished for it, when all you literally had to do was report the account and that would have been the end of it. It is not your job to take matters into your own hands and post links about scams that you think nobody knows about. Report it and move on.