Microsoft and their news feeds moderation are such a joke.

[Randy Lahey]

Anyone complaining about moderation in any steam forum should really be lucky that unless you say something extremely inflammatory, your generally allowed to post what you want, even in specific gaming forums from ubi activision etc. Today i just got banned indefinately from commenting off news stories off microsoft news feeds without even saying anything remotely offensive.


Referance to a inspiration disabled person running a marathon "What a Legend. First story ive seen in ages that didnt anger me or p1** me off. Great job, inspiring really"

comment deleted then post this "I call him a legend and an inspiration to others and my message still gets deleted. Moderators really need to get a real job. Ridiculous these people get paid to censor people"

In reference to an influencer dying "Thousands of real people die, commit suicide everyday yet never even get a blurb on a newspaper or website. Why should i care about some random bimbo ive never heard of dying? and it could be a man called evan evans and my response would be exactly the same"

This one is the one that got me banned for life LOL. "I got 5 comments yesterday deleted for no reason yet this is allowed. Total nonsense" and the guy above was calling the australian pm a pedo. I dont like him but i wouldnt post something like that on a forum or otherwise. BTW that comment is still there LOL

I've been on steam posting for years and i dont think i have EVER had a comment blocked account restricted for anything ive ever posted, because i dont really say or think anything that offensive to begin with. Yet M$ found a way to punish me just for those comments, while there are people literally posting hate speech on their feeds that go on without anything done to em.

[76561199653663961]

Well, what were you doing there anyway...

It's funny to me that people don't seem to think about these things. MS or Google or Apple (etc) don't do journalism. All of that content comes from somewhere else.

When discussing media and whether they are trustworthy or not, the more naive people will say that news channels are independent, and if multiple channels say the same thing, that means that it must be true. Yet they will happily consume these newsfeeds without even wondering where all of that news comes from!

Even without investigating, you already know that there must be at least *some* degree of centralization going on, because there simply aren't that many actual sources and editors.

Sorry for going a bit offtopic but I wanted to say this. I think the censorship actually points to the same thing: There are these narratives which they want everyone to believe in, and criticism is not wanted.

[Eggsnbakon]

MSN is such a joke. They've banned the keyword Fallacy when attempting to call out logical fallacies.

[RSebire]

Steam, Microsoft and Meta are just American bullies

[vkobe]

yes we know it exist forum worse than here

dont mean steam forum is so nice

[atomicgirl]

MSN is a backchannel for disinformation. That's why you're getting censored. Almost all of the news sources are content farms from disinformation agencies and think tanks. The same content farms that write the trash articles send out people to monitor the comments and use the flag button to get rid of people posting the correct information. Some of their agents will even pretend to fight as Leftists/Rightists in the comments using alts or pretend to be a native of the country, state or city that the news story is about.

You can tell there are agents because there'll be posters that have a ridiculous post, follower and likes count (like 5,000 comments, 50 followers and 3000 likes) that never, ever seem to get flagged no matter what they post. They can attack posters, call people all kinds of names, whatever, but their posts always make it. If you don't attack anyone and counter the nonsense the article is posting with facts, your comment gets pulled or isn't even able to post.

[atomicgirl]

Tom Macdonald původně napsal:

ms news is moderated by ai.

you mentioned the s word and d word plus you tried to hide a swear word very poorly.

It is not just moderated by AI. It's moderated by the content farm MSN sources. If a content farm writes bogus crap about GenX still using beepers (or something silly like that) and you correct the lie, the people who wrote the article will mass flag your comment to get it deleted, even if you didn't use profanity or attack anyone.

[WraithTargundaMajarie]

Microsoft Will Do Anything To Avoid The Answers I Give Them
To Their Windows 11 Problem...

This Is Why Windows 11 Is Still Around,
& Why Windows 11 Is Still A Problem...

They Won't Accept Any Answer Given Over Solutions,
Sooo They Dwell On It, & Drown In It, ~_~


Not My Problem, ~_~

[Blunt Raps]

dalmatian700 původně napsal:

Anyone complaining about moderation in any steam forum should really be lucky that unless you say something extremely inflammatory, your generally allowed to post what you want, even in specific gaming forums from ubi activision etc. Today i just got banned indefinately from commenting off news stories off microsoft news feeds without even saying anything remotely offensive.

Microsoft is a publicly owned company. The major share holders care more about DEI grants and ratings, or pushing other brands that they own, then they do about your rights on their platforms... Its hard to influence.

To change the dominant censor-happy corporate culture, u need to start with private entities... Steam isnt meant to be a true free speech platform. But its large, it needs to draw a consistent line, and keep it there.

[atomicgirl]

Blunt Raps původně napsal:

dalmatian700 původně napsal:

Anyone complaining about moderation in any steam forum should really be lucky that unless you say something extremely inflammatory, your generally allowed to post what you want, even in specific gaming forums from ubi activision etc. Today i just got banned indefinately from commenting off news stories off microsoft news feeds without even saying anything remotely offensive.

Microsoft is a publicly owned company. The major share holders care more about DEI grants and ratings, or pushing other brands that they own, then they do about your rights on their platforms... Its hard to influence.

Delusional nonsense. Geez.

[Blunt Raps]

atomicgirl původně napsal:

Blunt Raps původně napsal:

Microsoft is a publicly owned company. The major share holders care more about DEI grants and ratings, or pushing other brands that they own, then they do about your rights on their platforms... Its hard to influence.

Delusional nonsense. Geez.

Ok, lets reverse it.

Microsoft cares more about your rights than they do about grants and pushing their own brands.

Delusional, huh?

[atomicgirl]

Tom Macdonald původně napsal:

atomicgirl původně napsal:

It is not just moderated by AI. It's moderated by the content farm MSN sources. If a content farm writes bogus crap about GenX still using beepers (or something silly like that) and you correct the lie, the people who wrote the article will mass flag your comment to get it deleted, even if you didn't use profanity or attack anyone.

its mostly ai, reports don't mean much when people are the ones who go over those.

That's not how it works.

If enough people mass flag a post, it gets automatically deleted. It doesn't get reviewed by any person. It doesn't even get reviewed by a live person if you decide to file an appeal or complaint. Your appeal or complaint gets an auto-response unless you track down contact information of someone higher up in the food chain. This is how mass flagging has always worked across every platform forever.

[atomicgirl]

Blunt Raps původně napsal:

atomicgirl původně napsal:

Delusional nonsense. Geez.

Ok, lets reverse it.

Microsoft cares more about your rights than they do about grants and pushing their own brands.

Delusional, huh?

DEI and shareholders have absolutely nothing to do with what's happening at MSN and other sites. Big Tech no longer has a dedicated workforce managing their platforms or even monitoring anything. It's all AI, bad actors, data scrapers and remote workers being left to their own devices. If that means allowing AI, bad actors and remote workers to do whatever they want (including censoring for no reason), then so be it because they're all that Big Tech has left now running the show.

[Heatblizzard]

RSebire původně napsal:

Steam, Microsoft and Meta are just American bullies

We call it the Uni Party. One party to rule them all.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

they have an agenda so why bother with em in first place