It's against the rules to post discord invites in the Steam Community

[Jakey]

I've just found out that it is against Steam's rules to post an invite link for a Discord server anywhere in the Steam Community due to it being considered "This post promotes commercial content or contains an advertisement. Commercial content and advertising is not allowed on the Steam Community".

I guess it's time to start mass reporting many game devs and users that also share discord
invite links...

Screenshot of ban I received:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/808353637214322699/989623844715233400/unknown.png

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

So..you got butthurt you couldn't advertise your group, so you're being petty by trying to punish dev run communities. Got it.

[Jakey]

引用自 Leonardo Da Pinchi：

So..you got butthurt you couldn't advertise your group, so you're being petty by trying to punish dev run communities. Got it.

So you don't believe rules should be upheld fairly and equally across the platform? Take your tyrannical views elsewhere.

[StickyPawz]

引用自 jakey1995abc：

引用自 Leonardo Da Pinchi：

So..you got butthurt you couldn't advertise your group, so you're being petty by trying to punish dev run communities. Got it.

So you don't believe rules should be upheld fairly and equally across the platform? Take your tyrannical views elsewhere.

Bit of strawmanning there OP ...

[Brian9824]

引用自 jakey1995abc：

引用自 brian9824：

Keep in mind those rules are for the STEAM forums, developer run forums can have their own rules and be perfectly fine with discord links. Your free to ask them, some even make a sub forum specifically for that type of stuff.

They can, but if no extra rules are listed for the developer run forum then only the original steam forum rules apply.

Not really, again you'd have to check with the devs as even if they didn't post it anywhere they can be fine with it.

引用自 jakey1995abc：

Also don't forget that this isn't even a real game forum, it was a fake one for a steam/valve ran seasonal event (so the forum itself may actually violate rules regarding fake/misleading related content. Naughty naughty Valve...).

If its not a game forum, its a valve run forum and valve's standard rules apply, it is NOT a fake forum.... It also means its NOT the place to advertise your discord link in a seasonal event forum so you were doubly wrong.

[Brian9824]

引用自 jakey1995abc：

引用自 Leonardo Da Pinchi：

So..you got butthurt you couldn't advertise your group, so you're being petty by trying to punish dev run communities. Got it.

So you don't believe rules should be upheld fairly and equally across the platform? Take your tyrannical views elsewhere.

Rules are upheld fairly, the rules change based on whose forum you decide to use, and its your responsibility to read and understand them though. Clearly advertising your discord links on a seasonal event forum is not allowed, but advertising it in a game forum can be. Hence why you should read the rules and understand.

[Jakey]

引用自 StickyPawz：

引用自 jakey1995abc：

So you don't believe rules should be upheld fairly and equally across the platform? Take your tyrannical views elsewhere.

Bit of strawmanning there OP ...

It goes both ways.

[Brian9824]

引用自 jakey1995abc：

引用自 StickyPawz：

Bit of strawmanning there OP ...

It goes both ways.

No it doesn't. There are rules for the Steam community forums and rules for the individual game forums that can be controlled by the developers. Ignorance of the rules is never an excuse

[Jakey]

引用自 brian9824：

引用自 jakey1995abc：

They can, but if no extra rules are listed for the developer run forum then only the original steam forum rules apply.

Not really, again you'd have to check with the devs as even if they didn't post it anywhere they can be fine with it.

引用自 jakey1995abc：

Also don't forget that this isn't even a real game forum, it was a fake one for a steam/valve ran seasonal event (so the forum itself may actually violate rules regarding fake/misleading related content. Naughty naughty Valve...).

If its not a game forum, its a valve run forum and valve's standard rules apply, it is NOT a fake forum.... It also means its NOT the place to advertise your discord link in a seasonal event forum so you were doubly wrong.

If you don't believe that it was a fake/misleading game forum then feel free to link me to the Steam game's store page so I can add it to my account. Also, if devs are enforcing custom rules on a game forum without ever mentioning them anywhere or letting users know about them, then that is just intentional negligence on their part and nobody else can be blamed for violations but the devs themselves.

[Jakey]

引用自 brian9824：

引用自 jakey1995abc：

It goes both ways.

No it doesn't. There are rules for the Steam community forums and rules for the individual game forums that can be controlled by the developers. Ignorance of the rules is never an excuse

And what is your excuse for commenting on the situation despite clearly being ignorant to it? The individual game forum did not and does not have any custom rules.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

引用自 jakey1995abc：

引用自 Leonardo Da Pinchi：

So..you got butthurt you couldn't advertise your group, so you're being petty by trying to punish dev run communities. Got it.

So you don't believe rules should be upheld fairly and equally across the platform? Take your tyrannical views elsewhere.

They are, game forums are property of the devs for said game. Don't get mad at us cuz you can't get users for your sub par group without advertising it.

The fact you're getting tilted over having to follow rules is kinda telling. You legit advertised in an official Steam forum, and got clapped.

But now you're trying to argue semantics of "so and so popular game is advertising THEIR group, on THEIR forum. why can't I?"

Like...seriously? That's gradeschool levels of petty.

[Brian9824]

引用自 jakey1995abc：

引用自 brian9824：

Not really, again you'd have to check with the devs as even if they didn't post it anywhere they can be fine with it.



If its not a game forum, its a valve run forum and valve's standard rules apply, it is NOT a fake forum.... It also means its NOT the place to advertise your discord link in a seasonal event forum so you were doubly wrong.

If you don't believe that it was a fake/misleading game forum then feel free to link me to the Steam game's store page so I can add it to my account. Also, if devs are enforcing custom rules on a game forum without ever mentioning them anywhere or letting users know about them, then that is just intentional negligence on their part and nobody else can be blamed for violations but the devs themselves.

Helps if you read, by default its not allowed, so if the game dev's allow it then they AREN'T enforcing it. Again, its the DEVELOPERS forum, they can completely opt out of steam management if they wish as the forum and control over it are part of the services they get by paying valve their fee's.

引用自 jakey1995abc：

引用自 brian9824：

No it doesn't. There are rules for the Steam community forums and rules for the individual game forums that can be controlled by the developers. Ignorance of the rules is never an excuse

And what is your excuse for commenting on the situation despite clearly being ignorant to it? The individual game forum did not and does not have any custom rules.

Then you were extra wrong and should have asked before posting as if there were no rules saying otherwise you should always assume that advertisements aren't allowed. After all it clearly states so in the standard rules steam posts