Why must I have steam guard enable to comment on threads??

[Ta'veren]

My family account does not need it, and until I enable steam authenticator I never needed to have those stupid codes sent to post comments.

How do I get this irritation removed?

[Dagnabbit]

Originally posted by SACanuck:

My family account does not need it, and until I enable steam authenticator I never needed to have those stupid codes sent to post comments.

How do I get this irritation removed?

You don't get it removed. You either meet the bare minimum security requirement set by Valve to participate in some Community features, or you don't participate.

[Naota]

Originally posted by Dagnabbit:

Originally posted by SACanuck:

My family account does not need it, and until I enable steam authenticator I never needed to have those stupid codes sent to post comments.

How do I get this irritation removed?

You don't get it removed. You either meet the bare minimum security requirement set by Valve to participate in some Community features, or you don't participate.

This is the kind of blind fanatic thinking that has brought Steam to the sorry state that it's in right now.

They disrespect their customers, make draconian rules that punish good people, and they have a small minority of worshipers that defend them and attack their fellow gamers.

This won't go on for much longer.

Circuit City was well known for treating it's customers badly. . . been there lately?

[Scar]

Originally posted by Naota:

Originally posted by Dagnabbit:

You don't get it removed. You either meet the bare minimum security requirement set by Valve to participate in some Community features, or you don't participate.

This is the kind of blind fanatic thinking that has brought Steam to the sorry state that it's in right now.

They disrespect their customers, make draconian rules that punish good people, and they have a small minority of worshipers that defend them and attack their fellow gamers.

This won't go on for much longer.

Circuit City was well known for treating it's customers badly. . . been there lately?

It will go on, as long as steam still exist. Valve doesn't care about customer support and they just choose any (good) community people to become mod or admin.
To make things easy, they just made all of this security measures so that hacking/phishing/scamming are not possible.
Still, there are ways of getting dumb people do things that someone wants.
For example: An 8 year old made a trade for a paysafecard code. He doesn't get it and cry to the support. Steam just made the policy that trades cannot be undone and so no trouble at all. He just lost those items and can't do anything AT ALL.

[A no-brainer]

Steam Guard = basic security that sends you an email if something is happening on your account, standard is on, has to be unchecked from user if not wished, can restrict ability to use the forums if deactivated

Steam Guard Authenticator = Two-factor authentication, higher security, has to be activated from the user, writing on the forums is possible without (I don't have it activated), trading is also possible without but longer trade holds are active.

If you need codes too often with the authenticator, make sure that cookies are not deleted from Steam client or browser.

[Ta'veren]

What baffles me is that on my one account, I get asked for the authenticator code EVERY time I log on, from anywhere, and I can not post in any discussion thread (although I can start a new thread - weird, eh?). But, on my secondary account, I don't have to do any of that! Not on the very same computer I use for the other one.

This seems out of the ordinary, and only happened when I activated the steam authenticator, which seemed like a good idea at the time, but now seems like a one-way decision, that you can not roll back.

And I really don't get why I have to use an authenticator code every single time I log back onto my computer at home. Cookies, etc. have been set coorect, and works for every other application and website that uses cookies.