Rage-baiting needs to be stopped.

[PootisMayo]

I'm tired of going to my favorite game communities to notice repeat offenders rage-baiting for various reasons including farming jester awards, stirring up meaningless controversies, and openly attacking members of communities.

Valve needs to make it so that only owners of the games are allowed to post, regardless of whether the game has a large or small community.

[Zarineth]

Hub owners can already restrict all but 1 forum on their hub. You also need to identify if hub is moderated by publishers/people appointed by them/steam mods.
If it's the last one, good luck. They forgot about ban escalation and permabans.

[mldb88]

Plenty of people who own the game rage bait too so this doesn't really fix the problem (Just look at the Dead by Daylight boards, most of that board is just one side trying to incite the other and arguing back and forth). Steam moderation nowadays is like 90% report based. Just report the threads and move on.

[Nx Machina]

Originally posted by PootisMayo:

I'm tired of going to my favorite game communities to notice repeat offenders rage-baiting for various reasons including farming jester awards, stirring up meaningless controversies, and openly attacking members of communities.

Are you excluding your own posts for any particular reason?

Posts such as:

Originally posted by PootisMayo:

You have been reported. Leave this platform or the next thing you will experience is prison.

[MonkehMaster]

true OP, its been much more common since they added steam points, everyone called this out when valve added them.

[bluesky66621]

Originally posted by Zwarte Klaas:

Originally posted by PootisMayo:

I'm tired of going to my favorite game communities to notice repeat offenders rage-baiting for various reasons including farming jester awards, stirring up meaningless controversies, and openly attacking members of communities.

Valve needs to make it so that only owners of the games are allowed to post, regardless of whether the game has a large or small community.

How do you know it is "rage-baiting" ? When done subtly, it is almost impossible to detect. I think it is far more likely that you will call everyone a troll or a rage-baiter who says something you do not like, and you want these people out of your sight.

"Farming jester awards": 100% pure speculation. There is no way to tell whether this is actually happening at all.

"Stirring up meaningless controversies": Who gave you the authority to just decide that for everyone? If they would actually be meaningless, they wouldn't last very long and would not become a problem. I have a feeling this is about woke, and your calling it meaningless is just how you dismiss those complaints.

"openly attacking members of communities": Cannot comment on this without knowing some specifics.

Woke is controversial as not everyone supports the idea. Banning people who dont support the idea and called them out racist, discriminatory or hate is crossing the line. We all are people, not government officials or employers.

Twitter would be alot better social media than this garbage. At least there, twitter support wont ban you for disagreeing the idea.

[Princess Luna]

Originally posted by Zwarte Klaas:

How do you know it is "rage-baiting" ?

Is they dont agree with OP - thats, according to OP is bad.

[RSebire]

“ Valve needs to make it so that only owners of the games are allowed to post”
Agreed

Too many trolls on here spamming the report button.

[Mad Squirrel]

Originally posted by PootisMayo:

I'm tired of going to my favorite game communities to notice repeat offenders rage-baiting for various reasons including farming jester awards, stirring up meaningless controversies, and openly attacking members of communities.

Valve needs to make it so that only owners of the games are allowed to post, regardless of whether the game has a large or small community.

I agree. We need to be a community that holds itself accountable, but I'm afraid that the whole gaming community has failed in that regard. A wise man once said, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." That is the route that we have chosen, and the world hates us because of it.

[Chompman]

Originally posted by RSebire:

“ Valve needs to make it so that only owners of the games are allowed to post”
Agreed

Too many trolls on here spamming the report button.

Again this is something any game hub can do however only a few enable this to provide access to everyone for many reasons.

[Watereaters]

Wouldn't help you since TF2 is a free game.

[Soren]

Originally posted by PootisMayo:

Valve needs to make it so that only owners of the games are allowed to post, regardless of whether the game has a large or small community.

In theory, something like this does need to happen. The problem of course is potential buyers may want to ask questions about the product before purchasing it. This is a prominent feature of the forum and partially why it exists.

If Steam sections off these potential buyers somewhere that isn't the general discussion, I feel their questions about the game would largely get ignored unless the game is really popular and has an active forum community.

edit: removing steam awards entirely or even just not allowing non-owners of a game to receive awards in that board would be a much better solution imo for starting to fix this problem.

[👾]

Your argument of "rage-baiting" is made up and what you want is fascism. As long as it aligns with your views.

Originally posted by PootisMayo:

Complaining about Sweet Baby Inc. or anything they claim is woke should warrant a permanent ban, no questions asked.

[Pheex]

Originally posted by PootisMayo:

Valve needs to make it so that only owners of the games are allowed to post, regardless of whether the game has a large or small community.

I agree that rage baiting and jester farming is a very detrimental problem plaguing Steam right now, but I don't think this would be the answer. I frequently post in discussions for games I don't own yet to ask questions to players before buying.

Jesters should just not reward points to a user.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by bluesky66621:

Woke is controversial as not everyone supports the idea.

TBH, in this day and age 'woke' is little more than a placeholder word to trigger internet arguments.

Nowadays every new thing is 'woke this' or 'woke that' to have people ragebaited into arguing and making content.

Originally posted by PootisMayo:

Valve needs to make it so that only owners of the games are allowed to post.

IMHO Forums would benefit from a temporal restriction on game release. Every new release brings the trolls out of the woodworks armed with whatever fabricated outrage the ragebaitsphere came up to piggyback their content to the last trendy thing.

Leave an open forum for everyone as a 'trash container' and leave the rest of the forums for game owners the first few weeks after release. Sure game owners still can complain, but it'd stop the wandering tribe of non-game owners going from controversy to controversy riling up people from polluting the game-owners discussions until they find greener pastures for toxicity.

[Watereaters]

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

the ragebaitsphere

You mean ChatGPT? Because a lot of them have started outsourcing their bait to AI