"Own Game" Filter desperately needed

[Ernasty]

The Steam forums are devolving into 4chan, just look at the discussions on any of the upcoming major releases (KCD 2 for example). Most of the troll posts are made by accounts that don't own the game on Steam. It'd be nice to be able to filter out those discussions/posts with an optional "own game" filter.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Talk to the devs. It;s their choice to allow it or not allow it.

[Ogami]

The forums have been 4chan for a while now.
Devs already have the option to set their forums to "owners only" but very few use that option.
Because even if its controvery and trolling its still engagement and engagement is king in todays social media world.
Thats just the sad truth.

Also there are private accounts and you can also set games to private which will exclude them from showing up as owned for that account.
So you would filter out people who legit own the game that way.
Plus Valve´s entire liberterian techbro approach to moderating their platform which basically boils down to " as long as its not breaking any laws we dont care".

Thats just the sad truth about how Steam is run.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Wolfpig]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Ogami:

Also there are private accounts and you can also set games to private which will exclude them from showing up as owned for that account.

Is the icon which shows that you own the game in the game specific forum not always visible, regardless of privacy settings?

Making a game private only will not show it in your games list and the currently playing text.

[Gronk73]

crzyyy

[Tito Shivan]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Ogami:

Because even if its controvery and trolling its still engagement and engagement is king in todays social media world.
Thats just the sad truth.

They let the forums be filled with 'badge posts' for years up to levels that affected the usability of the Help & Tips subforum. Because engagement.

Now they have this gamified award winning metagame cluttering everything. Because engagement.

The Steam enviroment and the community itself are part of this 'metaMMO' Valve has.

I still like this place. But the levels of tolerance Valve Staff has for certain behaviors in order to obtain engagement are undeniably high.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Wolfpig:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Ogami:

Also there are private accounts and you can also set games to private which will exclude them from showing up as owned for that account.

Is the icon which shows that you own the game in the game specific forum not always visible, regardless of privacy settings?

Making a game private only will not show it in your games list and the currently playing text.

Marking games private still shows the mouse icon in posts.

[HereIsPlenty]

A lot of people who own games on other platforms/systems still come to Steam to discuss games though, so the mouse indicator is not always a perfect tool.

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

I'm not convinced Game ownership is the wayforward l, rather Valve needs, imho, to rethink it's current moderation model.

will they? who knows?

But there are obvious downsides to locking folk out of forums whose games they don't own on Steam.

[ReBoot]

Block trolls. As is customary, it's a vocal minority meaning blocking them is a viable strategy.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Tito Shivan:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Ogami:

Because even if its controvery and trolling its still engagement and engagement is king in todays social media world.
Thats just the sad truth.

They let the forums be filled with 'badge posts' for years up to levels that affected the usability of the Help & Tips subforum. Because engagement.

Now they have this gamified award winning metagame cluttering everything. Because engagement.

The Steam enviroment and the community itself are part of this 'metaMMO' Valve has.

I still like this place. But the levels of tolerance Valve Staff has for certain behaviors in order to obtain engagement are undeniably high.

Ain't that the truth.

[Dusk of Oolacile]

The usual stuff, censorship in the name of free speech and democracy...

Has it ever occurred to you, that making games not suck would automatically solve this?

[Ernasty]

Początkowo opublikowane przez -OrLoK- Слава Україн:

I'm not convinced Game ownership is the wayforward l, rather Valve needs, imho, to rethink it's current moderation model.

will they? who knows?

But there are obvious downsides to locking folk out of forums whose games they don't own on Steam.

A filter option is just that. It doesn't lock anyone from posting nor viewing all the posts. It's solely for end users to filter out posts from accounts that don't own the game on Steam should they even choose to use it.

Początkowo opublikowane przez ReBoot:

Block trolls. As is customary, it's a vocal minority meaning blocking them is a viable strategy.

This has been my strategy up to this point, or just avoiding the Steam forums altogether.

[Tonykov]

Agree!