Ferry Jan 28, 2023 @ 1:35pm
A way to deal with annoying ASCII spam in workshop comments.
I know some people find it funny, but most don't or downright block the comments due to the sheer spam sometimes taking more than half of the comments. Im referring to whenever some accounts start spamming the "THIS IS BOB" copypasta and its variants in workshop mod comments.

I do understand most mod authors can just delete these comments, but when its a creator that doesnt interact much (mostly due to different languages) or has not been active for a while that spam just plague the comments section and block whatever helpful comments can be there in case anyone got issues with the mod or other stuff.

Sometimes mod authors just end up disabling the comments, like for example it happened with Chippy's custom map for terraria at that game's workshop since that one end up having like a 100 of those comments.

It really bothers me Steam does nothing against those, specially when the same account spams it 4 to 6 times in a row without any punishment, or try to spam it once in every Workshop mod they can post it. I've noticed that seems to happen a lot in the Terraria and Tmodloader workshop in particular.

My Idea is, if possible, could Steam automatically remove these posts? Like I know there's an automod system that deals with comments that posts links or other stuff, I've been wondering if that same could affect that spam, like it checks if it has some ascii art on the lines.
Last edited by Ferry; Jan 28, 2023 @ 3:15pm
Date Posted: Jan 28, 2023 @ 1:35pm
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