Steam keeps recommending pornographic hentai content despite filtering it out

[lucmobz]

I explicitly filtered out the hentai tag and adult only, nudity focused pornographic games and I keep getting them suggested to me because tags like "hand drawn" are also associated with those games.

It is very problematic that steam hosts but essentially does not allow you to skip pornographic games.

What are my options?

PS: I already tried to ignore tags like LGBTQ+, hentai, anime etc. but ignoring is not the solution as I have to do it and if tags I am not ignoring are present I still get the titles in my discovery queue.

Example: this game https://store.steampowered.com/app/2757330/Class_of_09_The_Flip_Side/?queue=1 appears in my discovery queue and it even says that I filtered out the "hentai" tag.

[Sasori Kigaru]

If you're trying to filter out actual pornographic games that have sex in it, then you need to uncheck the filter for Adult only sexual content in your Account preferences/store settings.

Story focused games with sex in it such as The Witcher 3 will still show up as games like that aren't considered Adult only sexual content.

As for that game you listed, its not a sex focused game and thus the filter I mentioned wouldn't do much about it.

[lucmobz]

Witcher 3 and games about anime girls are clearly two different things and anyone can see that. But that's not the issue. The issue is that I already did all the unchecking and all the filtering out of pornographic or pornography-related tags and I am still getting disturbing content suggested.

In that example there is a specific X mark saying: includes tags you filtered out "hentai", which means I expect not to see this type of garbage content in my queues. So why is steam not applying my filters?

[davidb11]

Originally posted by lucmobz:

Witcher 3 and games about anime girls are clearly two different things and anyone can see that. But that's not the issue. The issue is that I already did all the unchecking and all the filtering out of pornographic or pornography-related tags and I am still getting disturbing content suggested.

In that example there is a specific X mark saying: includes tags you filtered out "hentai", which means I expect not to see this type of garbage content in my queues. So why is steam not applying my filters?

It is literally impossible to find Adult Only Pornographic games if you disabled them from showing up in the MAIN option.

So, please explain how you disabled the option and are still finding them.
When it is literally not possible.
Does the game have the Adult Only Banner on it?
Because if not, you can't claim the game is pornographic at all.
OOF.

Also, that's not even how Disturbing content works.

You are aware, you have to have enabled Adult Only content for it to even show up, right?
Do you not know how the system on Steam works?

It doesn't recommend anything that is completely turned off by default.

It doesn't matter that you think an anime game is not allowed to be classed as the same as the Witcher 3.

Also, why even bring up the LGBTQ+ thing here?
That's not a good idea.


The game you listed is not pornographic, or it would have the Adult Only Tag on it.
So, please do not claim it is.

[Sasori Kigaru]

Originally posted by lucmobz:

Witcher 3 and games about anime girls are clearly two different things and anyone can see that. But that's not the issue. The issue is that I already did all the unchecking and all the filtering out of pornographic or pornography-related tags and I am still getting disturbing content suggested.

In that example there is a specific X mark saying: includes tags you filtered out "hentai", which means I expect not to see this type of garbage content in my queues. So why is steam not applying my filters?

I don't believe the storefront was meant to work based off ignoring tags. You'll be better off hitting the "Ignore" button on the store page in regards to the game itself. Doing so hides that game from the store and makes it so that game isn't used when generating recommendations.

[lucmobz]

The game mentioned, has among its tags, "hentai" which is japanese pornography, which I explicitly marked to be filtered out. This is what steam itself shows me (for context I have bought lucky tower ultimate, which is hand-drawn and it may have triggered this suggestion, which is totally unacceptable)

Is this game relevant to you?
Because you've played games tagged:

Singleplayer Hand-drawn
Includes tags you've filtered out

Hentai

As I said, it does not make sense to say ignore it (which I can do but anyway applies to a single title) where the entire goal of filtering out LGBTQ+, porn, soft-porn, anime, hentai tags is to avoid being presented with disturbing content in the first plane, like the mentioned title.

There needs to be a reliable way to make steam safer for people that just want to enjoy normal games.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by lucmobz:

In that example there is a specific X mark saying: includes tags you filtered out "hentai", which means I expect not to see this type of garbage content in my queues. So why is steam not applying my filters?

No its not. The official tags for this game are "Comedy, Visual Novel, Dark Comedy, Casual".
These are the tags set by the game publisher.

ALL the other tags are "user tags" where users can tag games as they want and the most used get displayed. Those are not official and have no bearing on the filters because user tags are often incorrect or used to troll.
So this is neither a "hentai" game nor has it adult sexual content, its a comedy visual novel.
Also the user "hentai" tag is the last one in the list, meaning its maybe 2-3 people who tagged the game like that to troll.

So your entire premise is already faulty to begin with.

[Lithurge]

Originally posted by lucmobz:

The game mentioned, has among its tags, "hentai" which is japanese pornography, which I explicitly marked to be filtered out.

Hentai

.

Irrespective of your filter apparently not working as it should, you should also take the tags with a very large pinch of salt. They're applied by users and are frequently used incorrectly for the 'dictionary' definition of a word.

As far as I can see that's not actually a pornographic game.

[lucmobz]

I've got to trust the system. Nowadays anything can be claimed to be anything without any logic, just different interpretations and it's total chaos. If a game is allowed to be marked by whoever as "hentai" and I filter that out I don't want to see it. And by the way, in my opinion this is hentai, so I would also mark it as such. This kind of disturbing content that features young anime girls is not what I want in my discovery queue, and sincerely it disgusts me.

I just want the possibility to filter all this porn/pseudo-porn content out of my store so that it is easier to discover and buy games I like. And at the moment it seems there is none. And this needs to be addressed by steam.

On another note: it would be nice to have also a tag to exclude titles with AI generated content, that may even be more effective than excluding hentai.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by lucmobz:

I've got to trust the system. Nowadays anything can be claimed to be anything without any logic, just different interpretations and it's total chaos. If a game is allowed to be marked by whoever as "hentai" and I filter that out I don't want to see it. And by the way, in my opinion this is hentai, so I would also mark it as such. This kind of disturbing content that features young anime girls is not what I want in my discovery queue, and sincerely it disgusts me.

I just want the possibility to filter all this porn/pseudo-porn content out of my store so that it is easier to discover and buy games I like. And at the moment it seems there is none. And this needs to be addressed by steam.

On another note: it would be nice to have also a tag to exclude titles with AI generated content, that may even be more effective than excluding hentai.

Please stop making up stuff about what is found on Steam.

You also can't claim LGBTQ+ stuff is distrubing.
NO ONE IS allowed to claim that.
Bigotry is not allowed.

Good grief.

You are using USER made tags as if they're the Word of God, when they're not.
Everyone loves to troll with user made tags.
Meaning they are useless.
And Filtering them will do nothing.

You clearly know nothing about how Steam and any game on it works.

You can't go and claim a game is pornographic just because you believe in nonsensical user tags.
OOF.

Also, it's nearly impossible to find a way to successfully determine how much of a game is using AI generated content.

[Hammer Of Evil]

cool post and all, op, steam defaults to nsfw/adult contents disabled for all users when the update rolled, so if you're seeing it, you enabled it, simple as that. no changes necessary from steam.

games that evade the tagging / filter get removed from the store until they comply, you rarely even need to report them anymore, steam has its own QA team that goes through that stuff.

[davidb11]

Originally posted by Hammer Of Evil:

cool post and all, op, steam defaults to nsfw/adult contents disabled for all users when the update rolled, so if you're seeing it, you enabled it, simple as that. no changes necessary from steam.

games that evade the tagging / filter get removed from the store until they comply, you rarely even need to report them anymore, steam has its own QA team that goes through that stuff.

Yeah, he's talking about a random game that's been user tagged with Hentai, thinking that the user tags are ever valid. :P

He also thinks LGBTQ+ is somehow disturbing.

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by lucmobz:

"hentai" which is japanese pornography,

"Hentai" is not "Japanese pornography". In the realm of computer games that would be "eroge".

[lucmobz]

Hentai is commonly associated with soft-porn/porn/anime etc.

I try to filter out all tags that more often than not are associated with disturbing content/barely legal content (i.e. titles like this one that say all girls represented are 18+, which to me is pretty disturbing that there is a need to clarify that), clearly anime is not always associated with that (see dragonball) but I am forced to filter it out anyway (and this is another big problem that great titles disappear in this morphless mass of pseudo-pornographic games). Also stop claiming things I have not said to try to flame the discussion.

[Zarineth]

Class of '09 is not a hentai game. Also make sure last 2 filters in your store preferences are turned on. They will not block games like witcher or GTA but will make sure you won't see adult-only games.

[lucmobz]

All filters are already set up correctly, else I wouldn't complain in the forums, I am already skipping blatant pornographic/nudity-only games. Having checked as ignore the LGBTQ+, anime, hentai etc. tags I expect these soft-porn/pseudo-porn/barely legal titles (which have been tagged as hentai) not to be suggested to me. Simple as. If one wants disturbing content it enables tags that lead to it, but If one does not want it steam offers no way out...