Custom URL ownership expiration!

[Pollus Zhudarak]

Hello guys, I would like to propose to the Steam Staff to create rules so that this can be possible.

Nowadays names / images / sounds are used as trademarks for digital content products, and the custom url offered by steam is just perfumery used in the account, as well as images and other things.

Other than that, people are living only on the profits of digital products, and to facilitate access to such content companies make available precisely the custom urls.

Steam is a very old company before this generation of content producers came along, so there is nothing better for it to gain more attention than attracting more and more producers, and one way to do that is by offering the recycling of names / urls / tags that Steam offers for registration.

And that's not my idea, it's something used by twitch.tv and mixer.com as an example.

A steam user who has not logged in for more than 6 months or so and has a custom url will automatically lose the url, but the account will continue normally.

The same should happen for custom Steam Groups urls and their tags.

This way you allow really active users and groups to take advantage of such settings.

And even users and groups that were once active, many of them have ceased to exist for a variety of reasons and yet with current rules keep such settings.

EDIT: The suggestion is for account abandonment cases where STEAM knows whether or not the account is actually being used.

[Gwarsbane]

So I would like to propose that you use the search feature to discover that this has been discussed to death and its not going to happen.

Just because someone has not logged in for 6 months doesn't mean they are not using Steam daily.

You only show logged in, if you sign into friends. Other than that it shows you offline all that time.

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

No thanks, people that have not logged in for a while does not mean they won't eventually get back on or in invisible mode (I have friends that are almost in it 24/7) and this has been talked about a lot.

[The End]

Originally posted by Pollus Zhudarak:

A steam user who has not logged in for more than 6 months or so and has a custom url will automatically lose the url...

No, a user do not need to be logged in to use Steam.
If the name you want is taken, go find a new one.

[Pollus Zhudarak]

actually I just found an old post but let's relive the subject

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Pollus Zhudarak:

actually I just found an old post :csgohelmet: but let's relive the subject :csgoanarchist:

Lets not and not even say we did....

[Pollus Zhudarak]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

So I would like to propose that you use the search feature to discover that this has been discussed to death and its not going to happen.

Just because someone has not logged in for 6 months doesn't mean they are not using Steam daily.

You only show logged in, if you sign into friends. Other than that it shows you offline all that time.

It's not me or you who will say that a person has never logged into your account again.
What if the person only logs in to your account offline mode so that they need the custom url?
And I am not talking about FRIENDS LIST.
This is the url for disclosure of the account only, no one is required to have, but as in twiter or mixer, people who do not use the account lose the right to use the name only.

[Pollus Zhudarak]

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

So I would like to propose that you use the search feature to discover that this has been discussed to death and its not going to happen.

Just because someone has not logged in for 6 months doesn't mean they are not using Steam daily.

You only show logged in, if you sign into friends. Other than that it shows you offline all that time.

Just like I just answered earlier, it's not me or you who knows if a person isn't using their own account.

The suggestion is for STEAM, who holds all this information, to take action on real cases of abandonment.

[Pollus Zhudarak]

Originally posted by B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

No thanks, people that have not logged in for a while does not mean they won't eventually get back on or in invisible mode (I have friends that are almost in it 24/7) and this has been talked about a lot.

The suggestion is for account abandonment cases where STEAM knows whether or not the account is actually being used.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Pollus Zhudarak:

Originally posted by B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t:

No thanks, people that have not logged in for a while does not mean they won't eventually get back on or in invisible mode (I have friends that are almost in it 24/7) and this has been talked about a lot.

The suggestion is for account abandonment cases where STEAM knows whether or not the account is actually being used.

If i had another house somewhere, paid the bills and hired people to landscape regularly, just because im not actually living there doesn't mean someone else can claim that address. Same applies here, people have their account, and unless it has something to do with a thing being changed by valve (ie offensive name), then everything else is tied to it, regardless of when they last logged in.

[Pollus Zhudarak]

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

Originally posted by Pollus Zhudarak:

The suggestion is for account abandonment cases where STEAM knows whether or not the account is actually being used.

If i had another house somewhere, paid the bills and hired people to landscape regularly, just because im not actually living there doesn't mean someone else can claim that address. Same applies here, people have their account, and unless it has something to do with a thing being changed by valve (ie offensive name), then everything else is tied to it, regardless of when they last logged in.

Try not to use unrelated comparisons. it's not because you think this has to be that it has any legal connection.

And in your example, if the person who owns the land and pays no one and never appears and actually died or abandoned or for whatever reason, his land can legally be claimed.

So lets stop talking about it. Like i just said, others social media like twiter and mixer have implemented rules to make this possible because they understand that there are accounts that have actually been abandoned.

And one more thing, here on Steam one will not lose the account, but only the URL name.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Military service, jail/prison or even hospitalization for a long period of time and comes back...

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Pollus Zhudarak:

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

If i had another house somewhere, paid the bills and hired people to landscape regularly, just because im not actually living there doesn't mean someone else can claim that address. Same applies here, people have their account, and unless it has something to do with a thing being changed by valve (ie offensive name), then everything else is tied to it, regardless of when they last logged in.

Try not to use unrelated comparisons. it's not because you think this has to be that it has any legal connection.

And in your example, if the person who owns the land and pays no one and never appears and actually died or abandoned or for whatever reason, his land can legally be claimed.

So lets stop talking about it. Like i just said, others social media like twiter and mixer have implemented rules to make this possible because they understand that there are accounts that have actually been abandoned.

And one more thing, here on Steam one will not lose the account, but only the URL name.

The fact of the matter is that what you are wanting is currently not a feature for the exact reasons I've listed. You don't have to accept that, but it is what it is.

[Mailer]

I think both parties should come to agree fairly easily, whether this suggestion does kicks into gear or not.
It's probably not that hard to find another unique URL by just adding an underscore at the end of the input text. Even then I don't think URLs are obligated to be works of art. Or that they have to be related to the username in any way. You have a multitude of options for not colliding with another user if you have to, like abbreviations and special characters. Therefore I wouldn't say it's vital to keep a system like this.
At the end of the day, I'd be more concerned about if the destination is actually "steamcommunity" or not.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Pollus Zhudarak:

Originally posted by Gwarsbane:

So I would like to propose that you use the search feature to discover that this has been discussed to death and its not going to happen.

Just because someone has not logged in for 6 months doesn't mean they are not using Steam daily.

You only show logged in, if you sign into friends. Other than that it shows you offline all that time.

It's not me or you who will say that a person has never logged into your account again.
What if the person only logs in to your account offline mode so that they need the custom url?
And I am not talking about FRIENDS LIST.
This is the url for disclosure of the account only, no one is required to have, but as in twiter or mixer, people who do not use the account lose the right to use the name only.

Originally posted by Pollus Zhudarak:

Just like I just answered earlier, it's not me or you who knows if a person isn't using their own account.

The suggestion is for STEAM, who holds all this information, to take action on real cases of abandonment.

Not sure why you quoted me twice instead of just posting in the same post but....

This is the USER discussion area were USERS discuss why a suggestion or idea is a good or bad idea, this is what Valve wants us to do. I informed you why just seeing that some one has been offline for a long time is no reason to think that they are not using their account.

Others have pointed out that someone could be in the hospital for a long time, a deployed soldier, prison, they could be out on a cruse ship for a long time. Maybe they are working someplace for 6 months where they have no internet connection. Maybe they just want to take a break from gaming for 6 months or a year.

There are lots of reasons why taking someones vanity url from them is a bad idea.

How about coming up with a better not used vanity url instead of trying to steal someone elses.

[The HopelessGamer™]

Oh god no. What a horrible thought. If i go on a holiday and do not use steam for a while or possibly a few months, i do not wanna come back to find out someone has thieved my Custom URL....