How do I turn off chat trade messages?

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MrL0G1C Sep 24, 2018 @ 8:49am

Or quickly clear all trade chat messages at once leaving just actual real chat messages? Right now my alt has 121 message notifications and I don't seem to have any way of telling which of them have actual messages or which of them aren't automatic trade chats.

It's rubbish, it's annoying, I don't want chat messages to be generated by steam servers every time someone does a trade with me, especially when they didn't write anything in the trade message box.

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MrL0G1C Sep 25, 2018 @ 12:43am

A trade is not a chat and trades should not be notified as chats.

ReBoot Sep 25, 2018 @ 1:03am

What are trade chats?

MrL0G1C Sep 25, 2018 @ 1:10am

Originally posted by ReBoot:
What are trade chats?

Every time someone sends you a trade offer steam also creates an empty message and sends it to your chat as a message and then notifies you that you have a new message that isn't really a message at all.

ReBoot Sep 25, 2018 @ 1:10am

Originally posted by MrL0G1C:
Originally posted by ReBoot:
What are trade chats?
Every time someone sends you a trade offer steam also creates an empty message and sends it to your chat as a message and then notifies you that you have a new message that isn't really a message at all.

Never seen that. I get trade notifications, that's true. Are you in the Steam client beta, by any chance?

MrL0G1C Sep 25, 2018 @ 1:12am

Nope, not beta, it's server side anyway, have people sent you trade offers recently?

ReBoot Sep 25, 2018 @ 1:13am

Originally posted by MrL0G1C:
Nope, not beta, it's server side anyway, have people sent you trade offers recently?

Yes, I've sent a dozen trading cards from my DS account to this one and got a trade notification, nothing else.

MrL0G1C Sep 25, 2018 @ 2:19am

They're doubly crap, I clicked one of the trade chat notifications and instead of showing me what the trade was it instead said trade already done on an error page without any details of the actual trade, FML.

I haven't figured out yet why / when they get generated, factors could include:
Whether person is a friend,
Whether trade is a gift or not,
Whether trade being sent from browser, steam client or other software,
More?

friskyplatypus May 29, 2019 @ 5:47pm

I don't understand how more people don't have an issue with this. Did you figure a way to turn these off?

🦄 lainverse Jul 19, 2019 @ 2:17am

Nope so far and that sucks. I'd like to know how to hide this cancer as well. I'm running card trade bot on my account and every time a friend sends a trade I end up with completely useless chat message informing me about a trade that is already done. Like there is no indicator for trades already. -_-

Last edited by 🦄 lainverse; Jul 19, 2019 @ 2:23am

MrL0G1C Jul 19, 2019 @ 2:47am

839 unread chat messages, I'm not going to waste my time dealing with that amount of utterly useless automated junk, there really should be a way to turn it off.

It's wrong, steam should not be spamming & flooding my chat with crap I don't want.

Last edited by MrL0G1C; Jul 19, 2019 @ 2:48am

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friskyplatypus Jul 19, 2019 @ 8:21am

The way I do it now is to just use ctrl+tab to switch between tabs until they're all read. It is really, really obnoxious even having to do this for something that should be able to be switched off. Even the few seconds it takes to do it is a waste.

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MrL0G1C Jul 19, 2019 @ 8:27am

Meh, I'd still end up with 40+ open tabs and this wouldn't fix the problem of any real messages being drowned in trade messages.

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friskyplatypus Jul 20, 2019 @ 9:39pm

Yeah, I know what you're saying but ctrl+tab to switch and ctrl+w to close just like in chrome at least makes it less mouse work. And since it autoscrolls to the bottom at least you can see whether it's just a trade offer before tapping ctrl+w. You're not going to get any argument about this issue being ridiculous from me, just offering up my meager way of dealing with it.

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