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[svidrigailov]

probably been addressed before but if we can hide friends list, name history, games, game hours, and our inventory, then why not comments? ive got some comments dating back to 2014 that id rather not lose, as well as profile signatures i dont want to get rid of, however sometimes i dont want them publicly shown. if i can stop people commenting altogether, then i should also be able to hide them, it just makes sense :)

[Supafly]

You can stop people commenting altogether or set it to friends only. You'll notice I have 0 comments.

I don't see an issue with giving users the ability to make comments private though.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

I don't see why not I guess but you can already set to friends only and just to let you know if you ever make it to 50k comments they will start deleting after that.

[Gwarsbane]

If its the comments on your own profile that you made sure. But if its on others no, they should not be private.

The way I look at it, don't make comments in public if you don't want the public to see them.

[svidrigailov]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

If its the comments on your own profile that you made sure. But if its on others no, they should not be private.

The way I look at it, don't make comments in public if you don't want the public to see them.

nah i mean privating the comments on your own profile

[Doko]

I've actually been wanting this option for years now, and it's reached a state where I feel it is actually needed, because I've got up to 2-3 people actively stalking me through threads, trying to either troll or berate, making it a personal issue on their part, but an irksome stalking issue for me.

I would absolutely love for Valve to allow for the option to hide your comment history from users, since we can currently make our profile page, games list and friends list private, then they should also add comments history as well. I do not want creepy stalkers with personal gripes bothering me from thread to thread, because I called them out days/weeks/months ago.

I do strongly believe it is something Valve should look into, because personal harassment is something Valve shouldn't tolerate.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Doko:

I've actually been wanting this option for years now, and it's reached a state where I feel it is actually needed, because I've got up to 2-3 people actively stalking me through threads, trying to either troll or berate, making it a personal issue on their part, but an irksome stalking issue for me.

I would absolutely love for Valve to allow for the option to hide your comment history from users, since we can currently make our profile page, games list and friends list private, then they should also add comments history as well. I do not want creepy stalkers with personal gripes bothering me from thread to thread, because I called them out days/weeks/months ago.

I do strongly believe it is something Valve should look into, because personal harassment is something Valve shouldn't tolerate.

Unfortunately even if they did, it's public and accessible via other internet based options. Valve disables it and a script or Add-on will be created to streamline it more than you'd get via a web browser alone.

[Doko]

Originally posted by Dead Monkey:

Originally posted by Doko:

I've actually been wanting this option for years now, and it's reached a state where I feel it is actually needed, because I've got up to 2-3 people actively stalking me through threads, trying to either troll or berate, making it a personal issue on their part, but an irksome stalking issue for me.

I would absolutely love for Valve to allow for the option to hide your comment history from users, since we can currently make our profile page, games list and friends list private, then they should also add comments history as well. I do not want creepy stalkers with personal gripes bothering me from thread to thread, because I called them out days/weeks/months ago.

I do strongly believe it is something Valve should look into, because personal harassment is something Valve shouldn't tolerate.

Unfortunately even if they did, it's public and accessible via other internet based options. Valve disables it and a script or Add-on will be created to streamline it more than you'd get via a web browser alone.

They're gonna have to do something , because this weakness in an otherwise semi decent privacy system is being abused by people with serious mental issues.

I can't count on Steam mods to actually listen, let alone look into a case dealing with stalkers.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Doko:

Originally posted by Dead Monkey:

Unfortunately even if they did, it's public and accessible via other internet based options. Valve disables it and a script or Add-on will be created to streamline it more than you'd get via a web browser alone.

They're gonna have to do something , because this weakness in an otherwise semi decent privacy system is being abused by people with serious mental issues.

I can't count on Steam mods to actually listen, let alone look into a case dealing with stalkers.

Until you can deal with all the ways it could be done via other methods expecting Valve to change it means nothing. Pretty sure Valve knows that too.

If it's on the internet and accessible without any type of account there is nothing anyone can do to prevent stuff being found. The only way Valve could actual actually make any type of effective change would be to close the community system to accounts only to stop third parties applications accessing it.

That said, even that wouldn't do much as accounts are free and that'd just be a minor inconvenience hurdle to circumvent it.

Sure Value could stop with the accounts are free but then people would complain if they had to pay for games when they only want to play free to play games.

No matter what Valve does there will always be ways to circumvent it, easily, or it'd just P off more than it pleases.

Best thing would be to identify the user behind the account for punishment, prevent them creating 100 different alt accounts and pass information to authorities. That type of identification would however have serious legal issues all over the world.

TLDR: One way or another Valves displeases some users.

Oh and I'm not defending Valve/Steam. Not a fan after changes over last few years and their ignorance over the complaints from several off us. I haven't purchased anything for well over a year. Buy on other platforms though mainly gaming on PS5 now. Only time I'd consider buying on Steam is if it's exclusive to Steam. Though I have enough of a backlog I'd likely just play some of them instead.

[Doko]

I know some folk can bypass this or that, it's like that for practically anything man-made, but the main thing I'm getting at, is to have a system in place that deters or stops the not so smart folk from being able to stalk others.

There isn't that many high intelligent folk who know to bypass practically everything.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Doko:

I know some folk can bypass this or that, it's like that for practically anything man-made, but the main thing I'm getting at, is to have a system in place that deters or stops the not so smart folk from being able to stalk others.

There isn't that many high intelligent folk who know to bypass practically everything.

Don't need to be any form of intelligent. There is this great thing called an internet search.
Google for most. It'l only take a few reasonably intelligent people to develop tools needed to circumvent anything Valve could implement.

Take cheaters for example 99.9% of cheaters wouldn't be able to name a single programming language or write a basic opening tag. Both use code but using cheats does != the skill and knowledge to code them. For example most would have no clue that in specific coding language != means not equal so that line in plain English would read

Both use code but using cheats does not equal the skill and knowledge to code them.

Look in the VAC discussion board and you'll see soooooooo many of the cheaters that get banned can't use basic grammar. Not Capitalising when they should, use a period, or paragraphs. Hell the other day I saw a OT where there was not a single . over 8/9 lines of text. I stopped reading after the second line.

Majority of users wouldn't be able to code an app but they find and use them all everyday after basic internet and store searches.

[Doko]

People buy cheats that work easy made by those with the intellect to make them happen.

Again, I still vouch for such an option, regardless of bypassing. I'm not one to forgo the idea, just because a few crazies are so ♥♥♥♥ sure to go well out of their way to bypass a system, and even when they do it makes their case for a ban far more apparent when mods know exactly the steps taken to bypass such a system.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by Doko:

People buy cheats that work easy made by those with the intellect to make them happen.

Again, I still vouch for such an option, regardless of bypassing. I'm not one to forgo the idea, just because a few crazies are so ♥♥♥♥ sure to go well out of their way to bypass a system, and even when they do it makes their case for a ban far more apparent when mods know exactly the steps taken to bypass such a system.

People also do it for free. People also search for PC games and platforforms and downloaded Steam, GoG, EA, Uplay and/or Blizzard too.

I'm not arguing. I'm just pointing out that it's essentially a waste of time and resources when some can type

Steams user Dead Monkey community post history into a search engine.
Steams user Doko community post history into a search engine.
Steams user EnterNameHere community post history into a search engine.

Hardly a complex thing and way less time and resources than Valve would need to spend coding it in the first place.

The post history also has bonuses. For example for users noticing spam so they can report users. I know on multiple occassions I'm sure I've read the exact same OT before and replied to it. I look at post history to see I had and the user has spammed the same thread in 6+ different locations. Without post history I wouldn't have known and tbh if Valve removes it I won't bother doing a web search to double check I'd just ignore it and I'm sure others may do the same. +1 for spam.

Plenty of other reasons that I'm sure have been mentioned and discussed more than once.

[Doko]

I know, but I just find it redundant to suggest they do nothing, let crazies just run amok and we just stagnate entirely, because a few can bypass a system or two. If we thought that way about everything someone can manipulate, we'd have stopped advancing tech in general long ago.

Users spamming becomes noticeable a lot easier when you see them posting the same thing in other threads over time, like seeing a user spamming the same thought process on any regular forum, you tend to notice those a lot easier.

I'd still rather they allow for such an option. Those that choose not to hide their post history and still spam are able to be reported sooner.

I'm just fed up with crazies stalking people (myself included), reporting doesn't do zip, because mods don't care to look deeply into what those reporting say, or it takes many months for anything to be done, which is why I want that option in the first place.

When we keep circling back to "someone will bypass it", that's the part I care little for, because I know people cheat in games, like I know someone's going to go well out of their way to get back at someone, but I'd rather be able to block most from following me, than assuming everyone is as intelligent as Einstein and going "oh well, better get used to being stalked and harassed and just deal with it".