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No, it would not do that.
This... Level 0 appears like a new account, used for trolling or scamming, etc.
However, at the moment, a private profile is leaking the Steam Level anyways via indirect viewing on other public profiles (given you would have to know who's friended them to see it or be a friend of them yourself). So showing Steam Level 0 is just redundant? Should either just show or be hidden in all locations?
It will also help to alleviate some users who see a suspect thread and see the OP's private profile and then jump to the wrong conclusion that they are level 0 troll account. Then comes the oh so easily abused ignore feature.
So, “to give users a false sense of security?”
And, anyway wasn’t the suggestion presented as optional, rather than mandatory?
I don't personally care either way.
The point of this topic was to point out it's currently doing both (some hide the steam level, other places it shows as level 0, yet still leaking the real steam level elsewhere anyways) and just adds confusion to those others viewing it.
Private profiles levels are none of your business.
This would reinforce the fact that it's 'none of your business'.
I agree with this completely!!
If the 0 was replaced with "Private" it would send a clearer message.
Presuming you were serious about there being a separate option to disclose level or not, (incidentally Valve tends to default settings to “private” in such circumstances) there would still be many accounts displaying level zero.
Beyond that, proofing against stupidity is a hopeless task. It’ll shift to “your account level is below [threshold], therefore [misapprehension],” or some other heuristic. Basically a horse-and-cart sort of situation.
That would be clearer, certainly (of course my dim view is that anyone wanting to cast aspersions then merely shifts to “wUt R u HiDiNg PrIVaTe”)!
That's not what i was getting at. I'm saying that the steam levels themselves do not contribute anything to or against a private profile so it doesn't mean anything if it is or isn't included.
And i didn't state anything about how you run your profile. You tell me where i stated that?
That's easier said than programmed in code. As the value expected would be an integer (numbers only). As a string (letters, symbols and numbers allowed), it would actually break the code, unless it was "Private: 0" rather than "Steam Level: 0". The reason against doing that is the string value should remain fixed and the integer value can only change, for security reasons, so nothing else can be injected into it other than numbers. No one can get far hacking anything with just a number, even if they figured out how to inject it.
However, I've seen fully private Steam Private hide the "Steam Level" all together, which is the better option than displaying a "Steam Level: 0". All that would need is a boolean value (true or false) toggle to display it or not.
The next issue is on the friends list displayed on other public Steam profiles. Next to the username is a Steam level badge with a level colour and the level number written in it.
Edited the post above to explain it more clearly and the reason.
However if you don't understand programming and what is an integer, string, boolean, etc, it might seem confusing but still nothing to worry over. It just won't compile the code during validation stage.