Automated Content Check System Taking Hours

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Borderlined Dec 26, 2023 @ 2:55pm

Automated Content Check System Taking Hours

Mostly complaining, since I already reported it to Steam Support, but I'm making a Guide, and every single time I want to add a section it takes 1-5 hours to actually finish the automated content check system. I already have every section written on google docs, I'm literally just copying things over. The only links I have in the guide are to other steam guides, and those steam guides passed the automated content check system days ago.

Theres nothing I can really do other than wait since I already contacted Steam Support (and they were useless, basically just told me to wait. Which I'd be fine to do, if I could upload the entire guide at once and then tell it to check, but I can't do that since I have to do multiple sections, and I can't add new sections when the previous one is being checked), but is anyone else having this same issue? Is this server end or on just me?

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Borderlined Dec 26, 2023 @ 2:56pm

Lol, and this message got through the automated check system in 3 seconds, so its something to do with the guides. Can't imagine what though.

Windows Jun 25, 2024 @ 5:08pm

That happened to me when I was making one of my guides about Beamng.Drive. Likely the reason it takes longer is because a guide is a much larger piece of content than a message, so it will take a while for the automated check system to check it.

Borderlined Jun 25, 2024 @ 6:50pm

Originally posted by ThatRandomViolinist:
That happened to me when I was making one of my guides about Beamng.Drive. Likely the reason it takes longer is because a guide is a much larger piece of content than a message, so it will take a while for the automated check system to check it.

It depends on the guide too; I've seen it tends to take hours if there are links of ANY kind in the guide, even if linking to another steam guide. Also seems to be a permanent feature, where if a guide has ever taken hours to work, it'll always take hours for that specific guide.