Why do people set their profiles public but their games/inventory private?

[milos]

I found C418s steam account, and a couple of other famous figures, and I wonder why so many famous youtubers/people keep their games and inventory private?

Does it help you against hacking or something? or is it just down to preference?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by form:

I found C418s steam account, and a couple of other famous figures, and I wonder why so many famous youtubers/people keep their games and inventory private?

Does it help you against hacking or something? or is it just down to preference?

Famous people not wanting to show the masses their stuff is pretty common.

[Wolfpig]

If people have something "valuable" in it they would probably get a lot more spammed with trade offers then normal users....

With the games it is far more easy to explain..... they don't want people to stalk them if they play outside of their Streams etc.... If they not may have a totally different Account for that.

[milos]

Originally posted by Wolfpig:

If people have something "valuable" in it they would probably get a lot more spammed with trade offers then normal users....

With the games it is far more easy to explain..... they don't want people to stalk them if they play outside of their Streams etc.... If they not may have a totally different Account for that.

Still. I wonder why C418 wouldn't want to show his 1,000 games. 🤔 that's more of a flex.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Famous people eh. Famous to whom? I have over 5K games and not one person gives a flying ♥♥♥♥ if I show my games to them all. If anyone was going to get bonked with a hack, it would be those with over 5K games (some people have 10K+ to get that special custom badge - there is only one or so).

We look at these people with account worth's over $20K... Where are the hackers? I can see the scammers just fine...

Originally posted by form:

Still. I wonder why C418 wouldn't want to show his 1,000 games. 🤔 that's more of a flex.

Not much of a "flex". My account worth is nearly $30K, now THAT is a flex..,

Or shear stupidity on my part. 🙃

[milos]

Originally posted by Wynters:

Famous people eh. Famous to whom? I have over 5K games and not one person gives a flying ♥♥♥♥ if I show my games to them all. If anyone was going to get bonked with a hack, it would be those with over 5K games (some people have 10K+ to get that special custom badge - there is only one or so).

We look at these people with account worth's over $20K... Where are the hackers? I can see the scammers just fine...

Originally posted by form:

Still. I wonder why C418 wouldn't want to show his 1,000 games. 🤔 that's more of a flex.

Not much of a "flex". My account worth is nearly $30K, now THAT is a flex..,

Or shear stupidity on my part. 🙃

Unfortunately, we'll never know if thats true :(

[milos]

Originally posted by Wynters:

Famous people eh. Famous to whom? I have over 5K games and not one person gives a flying ♥♥♥♥ if I show my games to them all. If anyone was going to get bonked with a hack, it would be those with over 5K games (some people have 10K+ to get that special custom badge - there is only one or so).

We look at these people with account worth's over $20K... Where are the hackers? I can see the scammers just fine...

Originally posted by form:

Still. I wonder why C418 wouldn't want to show his 1,000 games. 🤔 that's more of a flex.

Not much of a "flex". My account worth is nearly $30K, now THAT is a flex..,

Or shear stupidity on my part. 🙃

And what I mean by famous is literally C418, C418 literally made the music for minecraft, it has millions of streams on spotify.

Pewdiepies steam profile is private too.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Once you get that famous, everyone and their mother tries to invite you whether just to be Sream friends with someone famous or to get them to trust you for later.

[Pierce Dalton]

They're afraid of being mocked for having sex games.

As for the inventory, valuable stuff will always attract scammers.

[76561199502155650]

i was able to use a unprivate moderator profile to gain all the moderators friends who where other moderators, and see a list of corrupt moderators who where suspsiously linked to forum corruption.

i did tell steam support about the accounts, if you can find the open moderator profile you can review how half the moderator accounts are now deleted.

it comes down to slowly weeding out the corrupted and exposed moderator accounts that are actually plauging the forum with excessive banning and content locks.

its actually pretty serious and its been going on a for a while.

so if your asking why you should make your account private its to protect the friends on your steam account.

i have reviewed quiet a few steam profiles which most have comments from friends, who link with other friends who i have all found out to be in the same corrupt circle of people.

so you can imagine how easy it is to identify these groups of bad actors, they always show up in the forums together as well.

really steam should do something about it, and hopefully they will. eventually , maybe steam is just hoping they will slip up and it can get them all , but some how i doubt steam even cares.

the forums main content is so small as a forum user i can clearly see it, so i imagine a forum moderator knows exactly what is going on , they simply choose to attack the innocent because the guilty and corrupt is a friend.

[milos]

Originally posted by Please don't stop the music:

i was able to use a unprivate moderator profile to gain all the moderators friends who where other moderators, and see a list of corrupt moderators who where suspsiously linked to forum corruption.

i did tell steam support about the accounts, if you can find the open moderator profile you can review how half the moderator accounts are now deleted.

it comes down to slowly weeding out the corrupted and exposed moderator accounts that are actually plauging the forum with excessive banning and content locks.

its actually pretty serious and its been going on a for a while.

so if your asking why you should make your account private its to protect the friends on your steam account.

i have reviewed quiet a few steam profiles which most have comments from friends, who link with other friends who i have all found out to be in the same corrupt circle of people.

so you can imagine how easy it is to identify these groups of bad actors, they always show up in the forums together as well.

really steam should do something about it, and hopefully they will. eventually , maybe steam is just hoping they will slip up and it can get them all , but some how i doubt steam even cares.

the forums main content is so small as a forum user i can clearly see it, so i imagine a forum moderator knows exactly what is going on , they simply choose to attack the innocent because the guilty and corrupt is a friend.

Hope none of my friends are bad actors.

Also, should I make my friends list private?

[Pierce Dalton]

Originally posted by form:

Originally posted by Please don't stop the music:

i was able to use a unprivate moderator profile to gain all the moderators friends who where other moderators, and see a list of corrupt moderators who where suspsiously linked to forum corruption.

i did tell steam support about the accounts, if you can find the open moderator profile you can review how half the moderator accounts are now deleted.

it comes down to slowly weeding out the corrupted and exposed moderator accounts that are actually plauging the forum with excessive banning and content locks.

its actually pretty serious and its been going on a for a while.

so if your asking why you should make your account private its to protect the friends on your steam account.

i have reviewed quiet a few steam profiles which most have comments from friends, who link with other friends who i have all found out to be in the same corrupt circle of people.

so you can imagine how easy it is to identify these groups of bad actors, they always show up in the forums together as well.

really steam should do something about it, and hopefully they will. eventually , maybe steam is just hoping they will slip up and it can get them all , but some how i doubt steam even cares.

the forums main content is so small as a forum user i can clearly see it, so i imagine a forum moderator knows exactly what is going on , they simply choose to attack the innocent because the guilty and corrupt is a friend.

Hope none of my friends are bad actors.

Also, should I make my friends list private?

Nah, only if you wanna dogpile on people and make it look like you don't know each other.

A common tactic around here.

[Sleepy Yoshi]

When the privacy option for game's went live it defaulted to "friends only" (unless profile was private), so there's always the chance they simply never noticed it was no longer public.

Or they could have their own reasons for not wanting to divulge that information or inventory information such as scammers etc. I'd imagine 'fame' would increase the attempts at phishing, scamming, begging, coat tail riding, stalking and the like. For myself as a regular layman, I keep my inventory private because there's no real benefit for me in it being public. Game's I leave public, because some sites I use reference that data. Not much more to it than that for me.

[Γαῖα]

Surely you would have actually asked those people directly. "what, you couldn't, they prevented you from the means to".

I think youve already had your answer which begs the question whats the point of this post, how do you benefit from it besides what people think rather than know ?

[Volfogg]

No idea. Aren't those settings private by default? Maybe it's better that way. People can be excessively nosy with their lurking.

[Taylor Swift's private jet]

To prevent nosy people like you from snooping around. These famous people are also human being and have the right of privacy. Respect their privacy and mind your own business.