Discussion boards going to the dumps.

[Digital Zephyr]

First with all the trading card post are littering the game boards now Steam is giving out game coupons to everyone that completes a badge and are being reposted on the boards.

[Lostedge]

Tito Shivan eredeti hozzászólása:

The trading forums at SPUF didn't stop people from posting trades on the general forums either.

But it will decrease it by 95%

[Tito Shivan]

@Eram, on the discussion forums? I've never encountered trading subsections on the gamehubs i've visited. That's why finding that one struck me.

(Then, not having them on two of the most trade-heavy gamehubs, like TF2 and Dota2 baffles me more)

[Satoru]

Tito Shivan eredeti hozzászólása:

@Eram, on the discussion forums? I've never encountered trading subsections on the gamehubs i've visited. That's why finding that one struck me.

(Then, not having them on two of the most trade-heavy gamehubs, like TF2 and Dota2 baffles me more)

They arent' on a lot of them but every once and awhile the devs make them.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/227220/discussions/

[Tito Shivan]

Satoru eredeti hozzászólása:

They arent' on a lot of them but every once and awhile the devs make them.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/227220/discussions/

I must be blind or really dense, but i don't see a trading subforum/section/thread there, like the one on here

But anyway, if you both say they're there i'll believe you.
Now i'm just more intrigued at the arbitrarity of who gets to trade on the discussions and who don't. I always though the no-trade rule was widespread for all the discussions.

[RichardV]

Here is an example of a properly managed community disccusion for a game. In my opinion those sub-forums should be default for every game on steam. If it was implemented from the start of SPUD we would see less spam, atleast it would help with acclimation.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/204880/discussions/

[Ineffable Anathema]

muckymucks eredeti hozzászólása:

Satoru eredeti hozzászólása:

Isn't that pretty much every forum on every single site regardless

I haven't seen it as prominent as I do on Steam. They would help matters by creating a second forum for each game so people can talk about technical issues without ruining the main forum.

"Help, something's broke" topic pinned in the help forum would be useful. It would also help if they would acknowledge things they've broken in/about Steam very recently. The last couple of patches seem to have had some very negative effects, everything from people with games that won't work to people unable to stay online to some who can't even log in to begin with and everything in between. What we really need is some kind of official word from Steam that yes, they know they've recently broken a whole bunch of things, and that yes, fixes are on the way.

[Pocket]

eram eredeti hozzászólása:

No trading at all on the forums would be better as the Steam client already has built in trading features.

But you can only trade with friends. And strangers who send you friend requests because they found something in your inventory that they want, but only idiots accept those.

[Stimpix]

I wonder if making a "Complaint" section would actually work...........because I for one would NEVER visit that Forum Page. And if no one else went there but the complainers, would there be enough thread replies to keep them away from other Forum Pages?!

[Erosinnin]

just point those people to the card trading forums or the card community and tell them to post about their coupons and other crap over there

option 2

have steam make a coupon sub forum so they all go there

[Fly Guy]

Digital Zephyr eredeti hozzászólása:

Steam is giving out game coupons to everyone that completes a badge and are being reposted on the boards.

Blame Valve for not creating a convenient trading forum. There should be a trading forum for each game, but instead what does one see? That trading is prohibited in all forums and directs users to the old forum.

[Tito Shivan]

Sgt.Kanivakil eredeti hozzászólása:

Blame Valve for not creating a convenient trading forum. There should be a trading forum for each game, but instead what does one see? That trading is prohibited in all forums and directs users to the old forum.

A 'convenient trading forum' does not really tacke the problem of misplaced trade threads.
Many times, those threads are misplaced on purpose, to get more visibility than being buried between hundreds of similar threads on the trading sections. And the trade is usually done on the time it takes for a mod to delete it.
It happened on SPUF as well. And most traders have moved to third party sites that offer better functionality than a trading forum. Not like there's much trading movement on the old tradings forums either.

PS: For some odd and unexplained reason, Brazilians do get a chance and channel to trade on these forums... (And there's trading subsections on some few gamehunbs here and there)

[NisseDood]

Im more annoyed at people whining about non-steam programs problems on the Steam forum.
Use the Origin forums for Origin problems ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!

[Pocket]

What Valve really needs to do is expand the marketplace so you can offer items in exchange for other items, much like how TF2TP works but actually up to date and functional.

[CyberDown]

Trading, selling and complaining. That pretty much sums up steam forums.

Its more an outlet to try to scare off players than anything else.