Can't post in discussions.

[Ripz]

Disabled steam guard and now I get "Sorry, some kind of error has occurred: To post this comment, your account must have Steam Guard enabled." when trying to post comments. It wont let me post. Is this only for the 15 days or forever?

EDIT because i still cant comment even on my own post here:

The whole point is I don't want steam guard, thats why i turned it off. But now I can't post in other steam forums. I assume it's just for the 15 day cool down period but i want to make sure incase its not.

My account is protected enough with my password anyway, if i get scammed and hacked i accept responsibility for any losses. I've never fallin for that before and it's very annoying having to verify with a code every time i log into steam.

EDIT: All these comments arguing over the importance of steam guard. My question still unanswered. Is the inability to comment on forums permanent? Or only for the 15 days? Not looking for opinions on how necessary steam guard is. If you want it, all power to you, I personally don't want it.

[Ettanin]

Re-enable Steam Guard, at least the e-mail based variant. Your account is completely unprotected, especially so if you have a weak, guessable password.
DO THIS ASAP!

[The Mastermind]

You disabled steamguard because "you dont want it"? Its like not using kevlar in firefight. So when you will get scammed or phished, its your fault.

[Maj. Winters]

install steam guard

[itzRiceKrispies]

Originally posted by Generic White Guy:

My account is protected enough with my password anyway, if i get scammed and hacked i accept responsibility for any losses. I've never fallin for that before and it's very annoying having to verify with a code every time i log into steam.

This is clearly not the case. Re-enable that. Hackers, REAL Hackers; not some scummy programmer or kid with hacking programs surf this app. Steam in general and especially Discord. U should kno these guys r good enough that they don't need to guess anything; and when they see your I.P come up and it is not tagged with steam guard, they know they can target u and Steam will not be notified about this invasion.

Steam-Guard is there for LEGAL reasons, not cause it keeps the hackers from checking u out.

[FROYO Rando Blueberry King Jesus]

Originally posted by ILikeRiceKrispies:

Originally posted by Generic White Guy:

My account is protected enough with my password anyway, if i get scammed and hacked i accept responsibility for any losses. I've never fallin for that before and it's very annoying having to verify with a code every time i log into steam.

This is clearly not the case. Re-enable that. Hackers, REAL Hackers; not some scummy programmer or kid with hacking programs surf this app. Steam in general and especially Discord. U should kno these guys r good enough that they don't need to guess anything; and when they see your I.P come up and it is not tagged with steam guard, they know they can target u and Steam will not be notified about this invasion.

What are you talking about with IP tagged with steam guard

[itzRiceKrispies]

Originally posted by Double bacon cheeseburger:

Originally posted by ILikeRiceKrispies:

This is clearly not the case. Re-enable that. Hackers, REAL Hackers; not some scummy programmer or kid with hacking programs surf this app. Steam in general and especially Discord. U should kno these guys r good enough that they don't need to guess anything; and when they see your I.P come up and it is not tagged with steam guard, they know they can target u and Steam will not be notified about this invasion.

What are you talking about with IP tagged with steam guard

When Hackers r surfing/probing(whatever u want to call it), they look at I.P Addresses. Its how they Identify and track people. If Steam-Guard is enabled a symbol will be displayed next to it. This symbol tells them to not mess with that account, because steam tracks that accounts actions(which is Y our wonderful OP above disabled his).

If the hackers mess with/or try to take that account they must interact with it, which will trigger the steam-guards firewall and in turn it will record and report the actions the hacker took.

This makes it much easier to undo the hackers actions and also legal action can be taken against the hacker(if it calls for it).

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by ILikeRiceKrispies:

When Hackers r surfing/probing(whatever u want to call it), they look at I.P Addresses.

If they are a real "hacker", then they know how easy it is to spoof or fake an IP address. It's very easy to do, thus why IP addresses are not a sure fire way to prove much of anything.

Originally posted by ILikeRiceKrispies:

If Steam-Guard is enabled a symbol will be displayed next to it.

I would love to see a screenshot of that.

Originally posted by ILikeRiceKrispies:

If the hackers mess with/or try to take that account they must interact with it, which will trigger the steam-guards firewall and in turn it will record and report the actions the hacker took.

Which would mean they already breached Valve's database, and pulled off the "hack" of a century, which would also mean they would be not interested in an unimportant, single account missing Steam Guard, when they would have millions of dollars in phone numbers, email, banking information, etc., instead, right at their fingertips.

Where in the world are you getting this information from ?

[Ettanin]

Originally posted by Generic White Guy:

The whole point is I don't want steam guard, thats why i turned it off. But now I can't post in other steam forums. I assume it's just for the 15 day cool down period but i want to make sure incase its not.

My account is protected enough with my password anyway, if i get scammed and hacked i accept responsibility for any losses. I've never fallin for that before and it's very annoying having to verify with a code every time i log into steam.

You need to use it. Account thieves are after such easy to steal accounts, hence your account is restricted from being abused for spamming, phishing and other malicious activities until you make it safe again.

Your account is not protected with just a single factor. People tend to use the same password on multiple sites and each reuse makes it more vulnerable to any possible database breach.

THIS is why two-factor authentication is the de-facto security standard. So, either use your e-mail account (which also hopefully is protected by 2FA) or a mobile phone as the second factor to make a password leak the lesser kind of worry.

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Ettanin:

You need to use it. Account thieves are after such easy to steal accounts, hence your account is restricted from being abused for spamming, phishing and other malicious activities until you make it safe again.

THIS is the real reason you, the OP, can't post in discussions. It's not always about "you" but also about others around you, namely the Community of other users that do not have Steam Guard disabled and want to have a safe and secure and (hopefully) clean place to discuss things, ask for help with games, review guides, join Steam groups, etc.

Originally posted by Generic White Guy:

My account is protected enough with my password anyway, if i get scammed and hacked i accept responsibility for any losses. I've never fallin for that before and it's very annoying having to verify with a code every time i log into steam.

That's what everyone says. "It won't happen to me" and "I accept responsibility", but when it does happen to them, they change their tune and go begging for Support to help them.

[itzRiceKrispies]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Originally posted by ILikeRiceKrispies:

When Hackers r surfing/probing(whatever u want to call it), they look at I.P Addresses.

If they are a real "hacker", then they know how easy it is to spoof or fake an IP address. It's very easy to do, thus why IP addresses are not a sure fire way to prove much of anything.

Originally posted by ILikeRiceKrispies:

If Steam-Guard is enabled a symbol will be displayed next to it.

I would love to see a screenshot of that.

Originally posted by ILikeRiceKrispies:

If the hackers mess with/or try to take that account they must interact with it, which will trigger the steam-guards firewall and in turn it will record and report the actions the hacker took.

Which would mean they already breached Valve's database, and pulled off the "hack" of a century, which would also mean they would be not interested in an unimportant, single account missing Steam Guard, when they would have millions of dollars in phone numbers, email, banking information, etc., instead, right at their fingertips.

Where in the world are you getting this information from ?

Did u miss the 4 million $ hack from the oil company in Florida a few months back? Shame they we're using outdated tech from 20 years ago that had no way of logging and tracking the data-flow(i.e the lines it was running thru and the direction it was going, cause data does have a pseudo-tangible form). While its in motion anyway. Afterwards, well; hey did u hear about how that oil company in Florida lost 4 million $?

And yes the given I.P address is quite easy to fake(hell thats what VPN's literally do). Static I.P addresses on the other hand r not easy to forge or change(last I heard anyway). And I seriously doubt the guy screwing with "Generic white guy"s account built a computer from scratch to trick Steams servers into thinking its really him. I.e the guys apparently already pulled off the "hack of the century" and breached the servers.

Cause if he didn't have some form of access to the account thru steam, name another way he got "Generic White Guy"'s Steam account info? Cause honestly I'm all hears or eyes I guess. And no theres not technically a symbol(its a different color). I just gave them an easier to understand analogy cause I didn't want to confuse them. Added:Which in hindsight I admit was a bad idea cause it probably just confused them more....

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by ILikeRiceKrispies:

Cause if he didn't have some form of access to the account thru steam, name another way he got "Generic White Guy"'s Steam account info?

I will just address this part as the rest I don't see as relevant to this topic.

That's easily explained. Because the user freely gave it to them, by allowing their own account to be compromised. This forum is filled with users that post here daily, most days more than a few, where they gave away their account's information, either by being scammed or entering it on a third party site through phishing.

Those are not "hacks". Those are cases of the user themselves failing to keep their own account secure. In such cases, nothing was "hacked".

[my new friend]

Originally posted by Generic White Guy:

Disabled steam guard and now I get "Sorry, some kind of error has occurred: To post this comment, your account must have Steam Guard enabled." when trying to post comments. It wont let me post. Is this only for the 15 days or forever?

Valve added that restriction ages ago to curb spammers and scammers. Then, they also added the limited account restriction. Everything Valve restricts in any way is due to people abusing things and giving away their account information.

[TCR Apex]

Even If you recently enabled steam guard you still have to wait the 15 day grace period that steam implies, I’m currently on one now lol