Someone giving you a hard time? Then delete their comments!

[Girl-y-Girl]

Yes, believe it or not, you can delete not only your own comments, but also anyone else's comments on your own content (screenshots, artwork, mods, etc). Much like managing your own posts on the forums, you just move your mouse over the comment and click on the trash bin icon that appears.

Here's how it looks:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2379387623
I'm shocked at how few people seem to do this; it's one of the few real perks of being a Steam user, since it gives us control over our content that most sites don't allow.

I truly hope I've been of at least some small help!

[[Closed Captions]]

Well deleting someone's comment generally makes the person deleting them look kinda like a coward or someone who only wants positive comments and can't accept any criticism... I only ever delete comments if it is a scam of some sorts of breaches steam's policy.

[Mailer]

You can also just block the user, as you are inadvertently showing off in the same image.

The person giving a hard time is most of the time left in the dark about doing this so the whole conflict can be laid to rest more easily.
I say "most of the time", as there are still some tellings of when users are committing to blocking one another. Deleting comments may just escalate the situation more; sometimes people become aggravated about one-way blocks; it depends.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by Dink:

Well deleting someone's comment generally makes the person deleting them look kinda like a coward or someone who only wants positive comments and can't accept any criticism... I only ever delete comments if it is a scam of some sorts of breaches steam's policy.

Who in the world cares what some anonymous nobody on the internet thinks though?

[Blargo]

Meh. The only times I'll delete someone else's comment is if it involves a scam or other blatant ToS violations (like a link to child porn or some crap).

Anything else is fair game. No need to silence others just because I personally don't agree with what they say or whatever.

[[Closed Captions]]

Originally posted by Fiddle:

Originally posted by Dink:

Well deleting someone's comment generally makes the person deleting them look kinda like a coward or someone who only wants positive comments and can't accept any criticism... I only ever delete comments if it is a scam of some sorts of breaches steam's policy.

Who in the world cares what some anonymous nobody on the internet thinks though?

It's more important if your an artist of any form. It will ruin your rep in the long run if you can't take any criticism. Deleting your comments will give you a bad name and if you wanna show off your work or get paid for your work deleting comments of criticism can hurt.

[Draconic NEO]

Originally posted by Closed Captions:

Well deleting someone's comment generally makes the person deleting them look kinda like a coward or someone who only wants positive comments and can't accept any criticism... I only ever delete comments if it is a scam of some sorts of breaches steam's policy.

It's also useful in terms of people who are overly hostile or non-constructive criticism, things that fall into that grey area of totally not acceptable forms of communication lacking common decency, yet are not against steam's guidelines explicitly or just are not enforced under those guidelines. In that regard it's not different than content moderation.

Not taking action against these types of comments isn't weakness or strength, but it is generally irresponsible since allowing this behavior to flourish never has favorable outcomes.