These rage bait threads

[GeezusCryst]

Seriously it's getting so bad that people keep falling for it rewarding them with jester awards as if its doing something but you actually giving them points so you contributing to their stupidity to keep doing it over and over.

Needs to be some type of punishment for this i go on the forums a lot for information or other players experience but i see this so much now i can understand people having hot takes but they not even trying to do that they just farming jester rewards and can't even have a decent conversation they just straight it be trolls and not give good explanation.

[Ben Lubar]

I'd suggest putting a dictionary definition of what an award is on that screen but nobody reads anything anyways so it likely wouldn't make any difference.

[D. Flame]

Points don't even do anything. I have over 322,000 points just sitting there, menacingly uselessly.

[Soren]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Points don't even do anything. I have over 322,000 points just sitting there, menacingly uselessly.

They can buy Steam badges, which translates too xp/profile levels. Normally you'd have to pay for trading cards if you want to increase your steam level via badge xp, but points can do it too.

[Nebgama]

Yep the jester an clown awards are just telling everyone you managed to rile someone else up enough they had to give you some points for being so angry with you.

[MrSteel300]

do you any examples of what you're referring too, so far i haven't seen a single rage thread

[Capt. Coopy]

Originally posted by Nebgama:

Yep the jester an clown awards are just telling everyone you managed to rile someone else up enough they had to give you some points for being so angry with you.

Couldn't have said it better. They really think they got one over on someone by *checks notes* giving them free points...

[HikariLight]

Originally posted by Soren:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Points don't even do anything. I have over 322,000 points just sitting there, menacingly uselessly.

They can buy Steam badges, which translates too xp/profile levels. Normally you'd have to pay for trading cards if you want to increase your steam level via badge xp, but points can do it too.

Badges that are a one time purchase twice a year.
Not really a reason to farm points.
Some users think having a ton of awards makes them look cool regardless of the award.

[Princess Luna]

Seriously it's getting so bad that people keep falling for it rewarding them with jester awards
Deep thoughts awards farming detected

[Soren]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Badges that are a one time purchase twice a year.
Not really a reason to farm points.
Some users think having a ton of awards makes them look cool regardless of the award.

If we're talking monetary value though, Steam levels cost 2$ per level on average to buy. Just the 100 stacks of one badge is worth 55$. 110$ a year in steam levels basically.

Another reason is people could be holding out hope Steam brings back gold profiles. A very expensive item you could buy when points were new. It made your profile gold themed, but more importantly you had a completely different name colour over the other peasants using the Steam forum.

Obviously some people just do it because they want to see a number of a fake currency go up too. But I'm just talking about the practical reasons for why that fake number can even hold any value at all.

edit: I see you can only buy up to 40 of this season's badge. So more like 25$ per season and 50$ per year if there are only 2 seasonal badges per year. Point still stands.

[GeezusCryst]

Originally posted by MrSteel300:

do you any examples of what you're referring too, so far i haven't seen a single rage thread

You can just go to any popular game and find one.

[GeezusCryst]

Originally posted by Princess Luna:

Seriously it's getting so bad that people keep falling for it rewarding them with jester awards
Deep thoughts awards farming detected

Is that suppose to be directed towards me? I’m speaking up cause im tired of seeing this happening idc for points i just want this to gain some attention so valve can do something cause its getting out of hand now.

[Lystent]

Originally posted by Soren:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Points don't even do anything. I have over 322,000 points just sitting there, menacingly uselessly.

They can buy Steam badges, which translates too xp/profile levels. Normally you'd have to pay for trading cards if you want to increase your steam level via badge xp, but points can do it too.

I think it is appropriate using useless points to gain useless levels. Albeit, the points are slightly less useless as you can exchange them for profile customization options. I have yet to find an avatar frame that fits whatever avatar I'm using at the time though...

[T9]

these people use social media so they are used to low effort dog poop and reward it
because they love it

[Reaper]

Originally posted by Soren:

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Badges that are a one time purchase twice a year.
Not really a reason to farm points.
Some users think having a ton of awards makes them look cool regardless of the award.

Another reason is people could be holding out hope Steam brings back gold profiles. A very expensive item you could buy when points were new. It made your profile gold themed, but more importantly you had a completely different name colour over the other peasants using the Steam forum.

I'm willing to bet that will never come back because the people who constantly get scammed will get scammed even harder with people using that to pretend to be some sort of mod.

[steven1mac]

Originally posted by Soren:

Originally posted by HikariLight:

Badges that are a one time purchase twice a year.
Not really a reason to farm points.
Some users think having a ton of awards makes them look cool regardless of the award.

If we're talking monetary value though, Steam levels cost 2$ per level on average to buy. Just the 100 stacks of one badge is worth 55$. 110$ a year in steam levels basically.

Another reason is people could be holding out hope Steam brings back gold profiles. A very expensive item you could buy when points were new. It made your profile gold themed, but more importantly you had a completely different name colour over the other peasants using the Steam forum.

Obviously some people just do it because they want to see a number of a fake currency go up too. But I'm just talking about the practical reasons for why that fake number can even hold any value at all.

edit: I see you can only buy up to 40 of this season's badge. So more like 25$ per season and 50$ per year if there are only 2 seasonal badges per year. Point still stands.

I thought the gold badge was just temporary, guess I should of got one, not that I would of used it, but I didn't have anything better to spend the points on at the time.

I agree points are pretty useless once you change your profile to how you want it. Troll threads have always existed, even before awards were a thing, it might encourage such behavior but if moderators do their jobs, such people rarely stick around.