Profile comments are now filtered

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

I’m not sure how to feel about this.

Scam links have always be filtered out whenever mods find one, so this word filter doesn’t do much to help with the anti-scam.

But I always thought we had a modicum of freedom over our own profiles, subject to Steam’s terms of service.

Now we can’t use “naughty” words on our profile comments. Fair enough. But what other words did they filter out that has been deemed inappropriate?

This is a bit out of nowhere. So I guess profile comments are now filtered like regular forums now.

Pros: Some shady site names are filtered. Not all, unfortunately.

Cons: Do we really need more hand-holding on our own profiles?

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

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Now we can’t use “naughty” words on our profile comments. Fair enough. But what other words did they filter out that has been deemed inappropriate?

Just various swearwords, including their equivalents in other languages, and a handful of other words about related terms. IIRC I recently found that a term for a someone who gets paid to have sex with people is filtered out.

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Pros: Some shady site names are filtered. Not all, unfortunately.

Sadly, scam sites proliferate way too fast.

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Cons: Do we really need more hand-holding on our own profiles?

Learn to get creative with your insults.

Morse code?

[CodeGreen]

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Learn to get creative with your insults.

Morse code?

What he/she meant to say is that something implicit.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

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Just various swearwords, including their equivalents in other languages, and a handful of other words about related terms. IIRC I recently found that a term for a someone who gets paid to have sex with people is filtered out.

Sadly, scam sites proliferate way too fast.

Learn to get creative with your insults.

Morse code?

Oh, I was just thinking of using alternative words.

It doesn't have to be "you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ piece of ♥♥♥♥, you ♥♥♥♥♥!"; it can be "you turd-faced twit, you little git!".

Bonus points if you encourage them to be eaten by a T-rex with Tom Goodman's voice.

edit: Matt Berry played the volcano actually

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

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Learn to get creative with your insults.

Gosh darnit, wot in tarnation am I supposed to do if I can’t poop-post on friends’ profiles now

I’m still curious as to whether or not we are punishable for swearing or bypassing filters on our own profiles though.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

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Learn to get creative with your insults.

Gosh darnit, wot in tarnation am I supposed to do if I can’t poop-post on friends’ profiles now :fmad:

I’m still curious as to whether or not we are punishable for swearing or bypassing filters on our own profiles though.

Honestly, the way I've seen that rule applied is that you're probably okay unless you purposely go out of your way to swear your mouth off, or if you swear your mouth off in the course of being horribly obnoxious for other reasons.

Like, imagine someone who posts a complaint thread about Steam's VAC/Steam Guard/2FA/new chat UI/etc. that is basically a long chain of swearwords (and probably devoid of actual meaningful content too). That'll probably get the thread locked.

Profiles aren't even patrolled, so it'll more likely be used as a thing if someone specifically complains about harassment on their profile or something like that.

[CodeGreen]

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Learn to get creative with your insults.

Gosh darnit, wot in tarnation am I supposed to do if I can’t poop-post on friends’ profiles now :fmad:

I’m still curious as to whether or not we are punishable for swearing or bypassing filters on our own profiles though.

It depends from someone who flagged it; the moderators will look on the report. If it's only for a humor I don't think anyone has a problem with that and moderators have no intention on looking our profiles that often. Remember we have millions of users here so I think it's rare to get banned from bypassing the filter in someone's profile unless it's an intent of harassing others in that way.

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

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Honestly, the way I've seen that rule applied is that you're probably okay unless you purposely go out of your way to swear your mouth off, or if you swear your mouth off in the course of being horribly obnoxious for other reasons.

Like, imagine someone who posts a complaint thread about Steam's VAC/Steam Guard/2FA/new chat UI/etc. that is basically a long chain of swearwords (and probably devoid of actual meaningful content too). That'll probably get the thread locked.

Aye, and I don’t swear all that often except to use and the F-word sometimes as emphasis but I could find other words to replace those.

But since comments are reportable now, this means we could potentially be reported for swearing on our own profiles lmao

I doubt Valve would do anything about that unless we were posting some shady links though, given that it’s our own profiles.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

BTW if you actually need ideas for more amusing insults:
http://danielmidgley.com/♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥-frequencies/
http://goodreasonblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥-02-16.png

Sure, some of the top words are filtered out, but it doesn't take a genius to replace those, you puckweasel.

And if you wanna get fancy:

http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

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BTW if you actually need ideas for more amusing insults:

http://goodreasonblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥-02-16.png

replace the hearts with the s-word

Nice one! I’m bookmarking this

But yeah, now that I think about it, the filtering of comments is just a minor inconvenience.

I didn’t like the whole blocking-to-hide-posts at first either but it’s become very useful recently.

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

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What can happen if someone reports your comment on a profile?

I think in the worst case, if someone filled their comments with the worst kind of comments imaginable, they might get community banned.

I’m just hypothesizing though, no idea if that would happen.

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

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I agree, this doesn't seem like great news to me.

What's next, censoring messages too?

They already have link filtering in chat, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that comes next.

[=CrimsoN=]

But what about "muh freeze peach"?!?!??!?!

maybe if less Steam users were asshats, this wouldn't have happened

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

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But what about "muh freeze peach"?!?!??!?!

maybe if less Steam users were asshats, this wouldn't have happened

I tend not to see abundance of swearing in profile comments though. Besides, the rare hate comments I used to get were low effort like “♥♥♥” generic comments or unoriginal copy-pastas.

Plus, we get to delete comments that we don’t like and block the people that we don’t like, so this seems redundant.

[∴ Snake ∴]

This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Next thing you know they're going to be censoring words in private chats, as well.

It's MY profile, I'm not scared of some goon coming to it and leaving insults just because I beat him at a game.

Steam is really dropping the ball nowadays. First the extra privacy settings that Europe demanded (fair enough on that one), then the Steamcord UI update, and now this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

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I remember seeing Roblox memes of people attempting bypassing the censor. I don't play Roblox and never will, but seeing screenshots of people typing stuff like "go commit not alive" or "go commit stop living" is pretty funny to me.

The funniest I saw was “commit neck rope”.

Ah Roblox, an endless source of memes and wit.

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This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Next thing you know they're going to be censoring words in private chats, as well.

It's MY profile, I'm not scared of some goon coming to it and leaving insults just because I beat him at a game.

Steam is really dropping the ball nowadays. First the extra privacy settings that Europe demanded (fair enough on that one), then the Steamcord UI update, and now this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

I think now is a good time to start asking Valve for more options when it comes to what is viewable to ourselves.