Add social media link - "Instagram" on curation page options

[JodaDona]

I'am just wondering why steam haven't added on steam curator page options list to link social media - "Instagram"? It is also a social media to be honest. Are you ever planning to add it to the list like other social medias?

[Mad Scientist]

This is a video game store.
There is zero reason to add Instagram, that's just a place to be all "look at me!"

It has nothing to contribute towards steam.

[JodaDona]

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

This is a video game store.
There is zero reason to add Instagram, that's just a place to be all "look at me!"

It has nothing to contribute towards steam.

i have a gaming project on instagram with 29K followers, of course it would contribute towards steam since i am able to place links on story and so on. And also there is thousands of more other people IG pages which are related with gaming world.

[MalikQayum]

indeed, that would be a great addition, a lot of game reviewers also like to take screenshots of the cinematics scenes in the games and publish them to IG.

I just don't think valve would be adding more socials as it is now since they can barely maintain the ones the already have added.

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by JodaDona:

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

This is a video game store.
There is zero reason to add Instagram, that's just a place to be all "look at me!"

It has nothing to contribute towards steam.

i have a gaming project on instagram with 29K followers, of course it would contribute towards steam since i am able to place links on story and so on. And also there is thousands of more other people IG pages which are related with gaming world.

So basically you just want to advertise your instagram.
No thanks. Steam has its own Groups as-is.

Not everything needs to be linked to facebook products or to use facebook products

[MalikQayum]

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Originally posted by JodaDona:

i have a gaming project on instagram with 29K followers, of course it would contribute towards steam since i am able to place links on story and so on. And also there is thousands of more other people IG pages which are related with gaming world.

So basically you just want to advertise your instagram.
No thanks. Steam has its own Groups as-is.

Not everything needs to be linked to facebook products or to use facebook products

if you fail to understand the use case, then often it is best not to write anything at all.
are you able to argument for why facebook, youtube, twitter and twitch should be there and why IG should not?

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by MalikQayum:

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

So basically you just want to advertise your instagram.
No thanks. Steam has its own Groups as-is.

Not everything needs to be linked to facebook products or to use facebook products

if you fail to understand the use case, then often it is best not to write anything at all.
are you able to argument for why facebook, youtube, twitter and twitch should be there and why IG should not?

The use case is to utilize Steam. Not liking my reply doesn't mean I should not post, if anything it definitely goes to show it's coming from a want and not a useful purpose to have that picture based site.

YouTube and Twitch makes sense in terms of linking for reviews or live gameplay to assist in showing people why something may be great, the rest should not be there and are largely a waste of time to utilize.

But instagram is rather pointless to the feature.

Afterall, if you're wanting to be a social media 'influencer', you should be using more than 1 platform especially when a site doesn't allow you to link to it in a little box.

[MalikQayum]

you left out facebook and twitter, care to address those?
also maybe you are not aware, but the 4 social medias i mentioned are currently implemented.
are you saying valve doesn't know what they are doing by making facebook and twitter an option?
care to tell us what your credentials are that make you an expert in the game reviewing field and usage of social medias?

link to your body of work maybe?

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by MalikQayum:

you left out facebook and twitter, care to address those?
also maybe you are not aware, but the 4 social medias i mentioned are currently implemented.
are you saying valve doesn't know what they are doing by making facebook and twitter an option?
care to tell us what your credentials are that make you an expert in the game reviewing field and usage of social medias?

link to your body of work maybe?

No one needs "credentials" to post. The fact that you think you get to censor people posting is enough proof for me that your idea comes from less than genuine intentions.

[MalikQayum]

did i at any point write he needed credentials to post? i asked a question since he seems to be an expert in the field.
besides this was not my suggestion, but maybe you can explain why instagram is any different than the already 4 existing social medias you can add to the curators?

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by MalikQayum:

you left out facebook and twitter, care to address those?

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

YouTube and Twitch makes sense in terms of linking for reviews or live gameplay to assist in showing people why something may be great

The answer was directly in front of you. Useful, vs non useful places.

Originally posted by MalikQayum:

you left out facebook and twitter, care to address those?
also maybe you are not aware, but the 4 social medias i mentioned are currently implemented.

Not that they are particularly useful to be there, but keep in mind instagram is largely a photo site, a "look at me", "look what im eating" and otherwise is basically overall useless for this.

Originally posted by MalikQayum:

care to tell us what your credentials are that make you an expert in the game reviewing field and usage of social medias?

Goalposting due to disliking the response doesn't do you any favor as it works both ways; one could easily ask you since you want to attempt discredit feedback and criticism by demanding credentials.

A fair amount of us remember the games journalist that had a lot of issues with the cuphead tutorial. This is more common sense and application, paired with some sites being more suitable for review purposes or linking, whereas a photo site is rather unwise to implement. Even industry credentials and published articles are not be needed for this subject. Some sites are more suitable than others for certain things. Most curators are a joke anyway and just repeat the same thing over & over.

Originally posted by MalikQayum:

did i at any point write he needed credentials to post? i asked a question since he seems to be an expert in the field.

You're implying that it's needed in order to speak against your opinion, which both the desire and the demand for credentials adds no merit, but does grossly harm your position on the subject as being unable to have a logical reasonable discussion without needing to move the goalpost when hitting opposition.

[wuddih]

i highly doubt it would be relevant for Steam curators and the only thing it would be used for is cross-social-media-pushing.

https://i.imgur.com/ctbXAqd.png
and just read the description. it is intended to be used for identifying purposes, not for content-extension.

[MalikQayum]

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Originally posted by MalikQayum:

you left out facebook and twitter, care to address those?
also maybe you are not aware, but the 4 social medias i mentioned are currently implemented.

Not that they are particularly useful to be there, but keep in mind instagram is largely a photo site, a "look at me", "look what im eating" and otherwise is basically overall useless for this.

i'll ask again, if they are useless (facebook and twitter), why are they an option and what difference does it make if they added IG to that "useless" list.

[Frostbringer]

Originally posted by MalikQayum:

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Not that they are particularly useful to be there, but keep in mind instagram is largely a photo site, a "look at me", "look what im eating" and otherwise is basically overall useless for this.

i'll ask again, if they are useless (facebook and twitter), why are they an option and what difference does it make if they added IG to that "useless" list.

What more would IG add to Steam that FB and Twitter already accomplish?

[MalikQayum]

read my posts and you won't need me to repeat myself. The beauty with steam is that they may allow for linking to third party sites but the users don't have to click them, so it is not forced upon you. insane.. i know.

[[N]ebsun]

Steam should add every social media badge