Custom Status in Friends

[Týr]

Inspired by certain homeoffice features: How about a custom status you can type in?
Back in the day there also used to be "Busy", "Looking to play" and "Looking to trade" along "Online", "Away" and "Invisible/ Offline" on the Steam friends status list. Either certain more options or a custom status would greatly add to the structure again. With a custom status things like "Looking to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" or "Away for Dinner" i.e. that would be possible. I would greatly appreciate ateast thinking about that idea. Keep up the good work.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Or the good ol' "[insert scam link] get your free items here using this referral code."

Would work wonders for the support staff having to clean that mess up too.

Or just use the non-Steam game trick and make it show you are in game "out to lunch."

[Supafly]

^This

If you're away you're away. Doesn't matter why you're away only that you're away. What is the obsession with letting others know what you are doing 100% of the time.

Custom = it'll get exploited so no.

The only thing there that is reasonable is a looking to play option and assign the games. That way if you don't want to play GameA friends won't keep inviting you to play them

[Týr]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Or the good ol' "[insert scam link] get your free items here using this referral code."

Would work wonders for the support staff having to clean that mess up too.

Or just use the non-Steam game trick and make it show you are in game "out to lunch."

:qr:

There was no intention at all to allow links in these.
Referal codes are not a big deal by itself, I don't get your problem there.

[Týr]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dead Monkey:

^This

If you're away you're away. Doesn't matter why you're away only that you're away. What is the obsession with letting others know what you are doing 100% of the time.

Custom = it'll get exploited so no.

The only thing there that is reasonable is a looking to play option and assign the games. That way if you don't want to play GameA friends won't keep inviting you to play them

Well your opinion, but it was actually 2 ideas in one text.

[Unexpected]

discord uses custom statuses so this could work within reason

[cinedine]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Unexpected:

discord uses custom statuses so this could work within reason

It won't.
It WILL be misused by scammers and trolls/edgelords/idiots.

What's better than having a custom status like "using Steam™ Item Checker®" or "now using: Steam Account Ban Tool" or something similar.

[Unexpected]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von cinedine:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Unexpected:

discord uses custom statuses so this could work within reason

It won't.
It WILL be misused by scammers and trolls/edgelords/idiots.

What's better than having a custom status like "using Steam™ Item Checker®" or "now using: Steam Account Ban Tool" or something similar.

true that is a risk, but then again its also a risk on discord, common sense and internet safety triumph over all, so does the report button if such a feature were abused

[cinedine]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Unexpected:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von cinedine:

It won't.
It WILL be misused by scammers and trolls/edgelords/idiots.

What's better than having a custom status like "using Steam™ Item Checker®" or "now using: Steam Account Ban Tool" or something similar.

true that is a risk, but then again its also a risk on discord, common sense and internet safety triumph over all, so does the report button if such a feature were abused

And common sense is to not give scammers even more tools to fool victims when there is at least one thread per day about someone getting scammed on the forums. And who knows how many people didn't even bother to complain.

[Unexpected]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von cinedine:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Unexpected:

true that is a risk, but then again its also a risk on discord, common sense and internet safety triumph over all, so does the report button if such a feature were abused

And common sense is to not give scammers even more tools to fool victims when there is at least one thread per day about someone getting scammed on the forums. And who knows how many people didn't even bother to complain.

if we're so worried about scammers why not remove profile intros and custom summaries you can unlock based on your level? people could shill their scams and whatever else

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

I am 50/50 on this idea. I would like to have this and not.

I am for the idea because I've liked how it was used back in the day of other platforms that used it like Xfire (aware that things change and there were no scams then at least on Xfire). It would be nice to type in what you are doing in games like farming, leveling, ranking up in games, or whatever (I like how any game can use this type of feature already in games but would like to see more use it).
Example: Path of Exile I see a friend playing the class, level, and area in the game he's in).

But there are so many disadvantages to having this feature when it comes to scams, phishing links (but we could not allow those at all), and just misuse of the feature. As much as I agree that it's one more thing that scammers can use they can already add in a custom game to Steam and would be no more different than that feature and it's available to everyone already.

[Týr]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Unexpected:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von cinedine:

It won't.
It WILL be misused by scammers and trolls/edgelords/idiots.

What's better than having a custom status like "using Steam™ Item Checker®" or "now using: Steam Account Ban Tool" or something similar.

true that is a risk, but then again its also a risk on discord, common sense and internet safety triumph over all, so does the report button if such a feature were abused

Thanks for your answers, I thought so too.

[Týr]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

I am 50/50 on this idea. I would like to have this and not.

I am for the idea because I've liked how it was used back in the day of other platforms that used it like Xfire (aware that things change and there were no scams then at least on Xfire). It would be nice to type in what you are doing in games like farming, leveling, ranking up in games, or whatever (I like how any game can use this type of feature already in games but would like to see more use it).
Example: Path of Exile I see a friend playing the class, level, and area in the game he's in).

I compeltly agree, even though there's already kinda like a feature wich shows you things like "In Lobby x/4" or something like "roaming the wasteland" this would be a nice implementation.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

But there are so many disadvantages to having this feature when it comes to scams, phishing links (but we could not allow those at all), and just misuse of the feature. As much as I agree that it's one more thing that scammers can use they can already add in a custom game to Steam and would be no more different than that feature and it's available to everyone already.

I personally thought of forbidding links as a whole like “www.phishing-site.com" or even parts of links like protocols i.e. "http", subdomains i.e. "www" or domain extensions i.e. ".com".
This would leave people with such garbage that it would be very unlikely to use. I'm also taking into account that formating wouldn't be allowed as such a status.

To the last part: Forbidding the editing of a custom status on non-steam games in any case?

Sounds like I would be naming all the restrictions in theory. 😅

[@R+5]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dead Monkey:

^This

If you're away you're away. Doesn't matter why you're away only that you're away. What is the obsession with letting others know what you are doing 100% of the time.

op suggestion is a matter of taste: an option, not an obligation. i think people should be free to share whatever they like, and also if they want to use a feature like that to make puns or jokes.

some people dont like that, like you: you could avoid using the feature, rather than downplaying those who like it. you dislike people who use it? ignore them and dont interact.

someone is using that feature to comment nasty stuff? users could easily report it with the same ease they do other features of steam profiles.

[cinedine]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Unexpected:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von cinedine:

And common sense is to not give scammers even more tools to fool victims when there is at least one thread per day about someone getting scammed on the forums. And who knows how many people didn't even bother to complain.

if we're so worried about scammers why not remove profile intros and custom summaries you can unlock based on your level? people could shill their scams and whatever else

There is a difference between adding new tools and having something removed.
The profile is also not used to build up pressure. They are just impersonating others most of the time. There is also some use to these profile features.

[Týr]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von @R+5:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dead Monkey:

^This

If you're away you're away. Doesn't matter why you're away only that you're away. What is the obsession with letting others know what you are doing 100% of the time.

op suggestion is a matter of taste: an option, not an obligation. i think people should be free to share whatever they like, and also if they want to use a feature like that to make puns or jokes.

some people dont like that, like you: you could avoid using the feature, rather than downplaying those who like it. you dislike people who use it? ignore them and dont interact.

someone is using that feature to comment nasty stuff? users could easily report it with the same ease they do other features of steam profiles.

An option here would be to make it bound to certain level, that would increase steam market income probably and also make it harder for people to fake profiles and exploit this feature.