Steam Custom Animated PFP

[realbradybrown]

Most like wont happen, but I and many other people I think would like custom animated profile pics. Ever since they addded the steam store with animated pics I have always had one. So maybe you can use 5,000 steam points to be able to add a gif as your pfp. Think it would be cool.

[wuddih]

Messaggio originale di officialbradyb:

wont happen

[Count_Dandyman]

Users can't be trusted enough to give them that much freedom sadly.

[𒐪⎝ Epylector ⎠𒐪]

If Steam cannot figure out how to penalize users for gif abuse, that is not the fault of users who test the boundaries but the fault of Steam for improperly enforcing them. The problem is not that this feature cannot be trusted to users, but that Steam lacks the ability to enforce rules required to have this feature.

Your idea requires new moderator avatar-checking tools being implemented to streamline and speed up the process. A couple extra moderators in every region for this specific checking would also become necessary.

This idea is 100% doable, but would require some degree of new resources on Steam's end along with some degree of thought. But, to call this impossible is overreach. Users can be trusted -and the few who can't, should be proportionally penalized via dedicated streamlined moderator tools that can be sustainably and comfortably used for long periods of time by a few mods dedicated to checking profile images.

It might help to disable profile gifs being displayed in any games, so that most users will not see anything profane too quickly for mods to catch.

A good compromise would also be the ability to overlay animated avatars you can buy over stationary avatars you can upload, but make the animated avatars translucent via a translucency slider.