How Do I Reset My Steam Preferences to "None"?

[Zen_Disaster]

Because I misunderstood Steam's strange behavior when using their DISCOVERY QUEUE and when we apply their TAGS and when we click IGNORE and NOT INTERESTED, I now need to reset all my preferences to a "blank slate" as though I just joined Steam today and in my first few minutes as a member I bought the 100 games in my library and created my first 50 game Wish List with the result being that those 150 games are the only indication Steam has of my preferences.

In other words I want to reset my "preferences" to NONE aside from the games in my library and my wish list. This also means (that I can think of) I want Steam to disregard all of my former IGNORES and NOT INTERESTED's such that ~~~ aside from my library & wish list ~~~ Steam has no knowledge of my preferences.

Another related question for Steam Experts, in our 'long form" Steam not-interested list [most members have never seen this list but you really should - it was my wake-up call that there was something VERY WRONG], many games are listed as just one inscrutable word ~~~ UNINITIATED ~~~ where it should read the game's name. Clearly it's a "placeholder" of some sort. Does anyone know what Steam means by that word and how to force it to show the game's name as it should?

Thanks for your help.

[cinedine]

In your list for ignored products you can remove all the titles by hovering over them and clicking the X.
Tags to be excluded can be removed from the Discovery queue settings.

UNINIATED marks games that were removed by Valve before reaching the store page, mostly because they ceased business with the company behind them.

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by cinedine:

In your list for ignored products you can remove all the titles by hovering over them and clicking the X.
Tags to be excluded can be removed from the Discovery queue settings.

UNINIATED marks games that were removed by Valve before reaching the store page, mostly because they ceased business with the company behind them.

I wouldn't be asking if the ignored / not interested et al list were reasonably short. Mine totaled in the tens of thousands of games, I sat there doing as you suggest for six hours straight this weekend and gave up as I hadn't "X"'ed out half of Steam's 50 page list.

Using the same example I did in my post, what games for example were included in Steam's IGNORE / NOT INTERESTED list? My total list of 150 library / wish list games {and everything like them on Steam). When they were still in their teens, that's what my kids used to mock as "artificial idiocy." Seriously, it was hard to believe the probable magnitude of the program error. It said in short that I liked no games nor types of games - I assure, nothing could be further from the truth. It took awhile to figure out where the program error was and it's hard to believe they'd let this slip through but anyway that's not the direct subject of this string.

So far as the long list of unidentified UNINITIATED games, these also were fairly easy to decode and the ones I checked out are being sold on Steam with their own pages as all games have.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

This still work?
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3307213006833495361/#c3307213006833586007

Or this? https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1354868867730795360/

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

This still work?
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3307213006833495361/#c3307213006833586007

Or this? https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1354868867730795360/

:qr:

First one, yes ty it helped to remove many titled games though many other entries remained but it removed none of the inappropriate game-type descriptors ("tags"). I can take some guesses about how to clean the whole list but I'd prefer not monkeying around with Steam's software and just leave it for now. From a practical POV, these issues don't cause me any problems except making Steam a tougher place to shop but I can live with that rather than risking tripping an account issue.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

For the tags you blocked... https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

For the tags you blocked... https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences

:qr:

Yep thanks already knew about that page and made the necessary adjustments yesterday but am afraid there are more areas that clash with or take precedence over that page's options.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

What friends play and what is popular will affect things as well.

[Zen_Disaster]

What is popular is a finite and well-known set of games that we all pretty much are aware of and thus can factor out if necessary. But Steam's making assumptions about our preferences based on what our Steam Friends like and dislike is a good example in my view of something that doesn't make much actual sense imho and as mentioned up above it doesn't help Steam know my likes and dislikes. The logic error with that is conflating Steam Friends with real-world friends and it creates specious assumptions for Steam's marketing purposes but that doesn't affect me except for the minor nuisance of shopping.

[Count_Dandyman]

Originally posted by Zen_Disaster:

What is popular is a finite and well-known set of games that we all pretty much are aware of and thus can factor out if necessary. But Steam's making assumptions about our preferences based on what our Steam Friends like and dislike is a good example in my view of something that doesn't make much actual sense imho and as mentioned up above it doesn't help Steam know my likes and dislikes. The logic error with that is conflating Steam Friends with real-world friends and it creates specious assumptions for Steam's marketing purposes but that doesn't affect me except for the minor nuisance of shopping.

It isn't that Steam thinks of your Steam friends the same as real-world friends it is that Steam assumes people you add as friends are people you plan to play games with so you would either want to have the same games to play together or that if you both liked playing several of the same games that your tastes are likely to be the same.

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by Count_Dandyman:

Originally posted by Zen_Disaster:

What is popular is a finite and well-known set of games that we all pretty much are aware of and thus can factor out if necessary. But Steam's making assumptions about our preferences based on what our Steam Friends like and dislike is a good example in my view of something that doesn't make much actual sense imho and as mentioned up above it doesn't help Steam know my likes and dislikes. The logic error with that is conflating Steam Friends with real-world friends and it creates specious assumptions for Steam's marketing purposes but that doesn't affect me except for the minor nuisance of shopping.

It isn't that Steam thinks of your Steam friends the same as real-world friends it is that Steam assumes people you add as friends are people you plan to play games with so you would either want to have the same games to play together or that if you both liked playing several of the same games that your tastes are likely to be the same.

Not if our games are nearly 100% single player which is the case for most all of us. I only play coop with my kids & grandkids as a fun way to spend time together. And my friends and I never play massively multiplayer cause that's not really gaming for us. Who knows all of this and more, if not Steam?

[Crazy Tiger]

Doesn't matter if it's multiplayer of singleplayer. Steam assumes that games your Steam friends play (whether MP or SP) are games that you might be interested in.

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Doesn't matter if it's multiplayer of singleplayer. Steam assumes that games your Steam friends play (whether MP or SP) are games that you might be interested in.

I really couldn't care less - that's Valve's business and I'm happy to leave it at that. But I seriously doubt they build incorrect assumptions or faulty logic into their AI ~ that'd be the equivalent of flushing their earnings away.