Steam rules for conduct and behavior.

[Ozzette78]

This document is the biggest joke of all because Steam does not enforce it. They expect you to take care of it yourself and hide by setting your profile to private. We are not free here in Steam to enjoy the community because they WILL NOT remove trolls and cyberstalkers.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4045-USHJ-3810

[mimizukari]

Steam absolutely enforces it. You can report someone's profile for harassment and they will be community banned if they leave comments on your profile that are nasty.

[Washell]

The problem isn't lack of enforcement. The problem is speed of enforcement.

[mimizukari]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Washell:

The problem isn't lack of enforcement. The problem is speed of enforcement.

The speed is absolutely fine, do you know how much content gets reported? It's dealt with same day, that's enough.

[ShelLuser]

And in addition to the above: just because you don't 'see' anything being done doesn't mean that nothing is happening. Some things are handled behind the scenes so to speak.

(edit)

In your other thread you mentioned not to be a child, etc, etc. No offense intended but your current rants sure make it look that way.

You can easily make your profile private after which no one can access it. Not even friends of friends. Also: the moment someone is harassing you can can easily block them and filter 'm out of your Steam life, also no issues there.

I can understand if you're upset, but despite what you claim there's plenty which you can do using your Steam settings to fix the whole mess.

[Washell]

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Washell:

The problem isn't lack of enforcement. The problem is speed of enforcement.

The speed is absolutely fine, do you know how much content gets reported? It's dealt with same day, that's enough.

Reported profiles are not dealth with on the same day.

[Grogwind]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Washell:

Diposting pertama kali oleh リーゼロッタ:

The speed is absolutely fine, do you know how much content gets reported? It's dealt with same day, that's enough.

Reported profiles are not dealth with on the same day.

Depends what you have reported the profile for and how busy support is.

I have reported profiles for both inappropriate names and profile pictures, some have been delt with in a few hours, some have taken have taken a few days.

[Ozzette78]

Cyberstalking/Harassment on Steam.

Yesterday I was attacked by a troll. I have some pretty severe PTSD from my past and I crumbled. I want to tell you what I have learned since then. This was an entirely random thing, although I now believe he found me through a mutual group or friends he has stalked in the past. It is random, looking for anyone they can upset.

My troll has stated he follows the teachings of Chad Warden. Who is Chad Warden? He is the most famous troll on YouTube. They also esteem to become "ballers", which is slang for drug dealer. I saw it stated on one site that CW had posted 100,000 offensive, harassing posts on one profile in YouTube. My cyberstalker and his "friends" think that harassing and offending people is the greatest, funniest thing on earth. I happen to think harassment is a crime, as it is CYBERSTALKING. How are people like this allowed to exist? That is a good question. CW has been reined in on YouTube, apparently. But now people that think this is a good thing are invading Steam. If you do a friend search for CW you will find 374 results. That's too high of a number and I think it is time to take care of these people. My harasser has been reported over and over, time and time again. He posts his artwork of ♥♥♥♥ all over people profiles. Victims HAVE to go to private profiles to stop it. I enjoyed my public persona on Steam, until my stalker found me. He is trolling my friends. I went private (friends only) within an hour. In that time he copied my profile and picture and represented himself as me to my friends, requesting friendship and posting obscene artwork on their profiles, etc. It continued after I went private because YOU CANNOT HIDE YOUR SCREEN NAME ON STEAM. You can hide everything on Steam except your screen name and profile pic. He belongs to a group called Girl Gamers, with over 20,000 members, so if you were friends with me and belonged to that group, he could see your public profile and see you were friends with me... even if I hid my friends list. He seems to use various tools to find and maintain his stalker image. Apparently I did not do so quick enough, because he is still asking my friends for friendship. He must screenshot your friendlist as soon as he finds a target. And the only reason to do so is to ruin your rep, friendships, etc. Why are we allowing people like this on STEAM? STEAM, why do you not follow up on reports of harassment and cyberstalking? Why are you allowing obvious references to drug dealing when your lowest age allowed in 13!!! I would love to see this brought to the media, because cyberstalking is a crime and Steam is allowing it all over the platform.

I am not a child. This is not whining about someone calling me names or killing me in a game. This about having penises and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ positions being posted on my profile. EVERYWHERE. Profile page, every screenshot, every artwork post, and on to my friends' pages to do the same thing. I have another friend that was attacked in this manner, but she streams and it hurt her badly because I understand why she did not want to go private. Another friend runs a review page and informed me that it is his second one because of a cyberstalker that Steam refused to address. And it is obviously not just women they attempt to attack, because my male friends are getting it too. My grandson, under age for Steam, uses my Steam account to play games. I do not want him to think this is funny or acceptable if he were to see it. I do not want to start seeing news posts about kids committing suicide because they were cyberstalked on Steam. It is not. It is illegal. IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP, STEAM.

I believe he or one of his friends has alternate accounts to monitor the people he does stalk. This post was removed within 20 or so of posting because I did something against Steam's code of conduct. Isn't that hilarious?

[Ozzette78]

I truly believe my posts are being monitored for any infraction to be removed. Please, understand this is not about me. It is about people not as strong as me. I have been bullied all my life and it has done nothing but make me an angry bitter person. I want to help those that cannot speak for themselves, like teenagers that commit suicide after this kind of behavior. People trying to help the community by being reviewers and streamers. They all get hit with this. BTW, I have unfollowed my posts here, so I get one little bit upset about the negative comments. I took care of my own account. I'm not really happy with it, but I'll get used to it. Others aren't so lucky. I am telling you that people ARE reported and nothing is done. My stalker picked on a friend of mine months ago. It is not new behavior for him. And with 7 years on Steam under his belt, I"m sure he knows that he has been reported and nothing was done. That is why he is getting worse. Others like him will come along too. This is a GENERAL topic, not all about me.

[Grogwind]

Steam has multiple tools that can help you protect your profile from trolls.

Your best bet is to block the users that post inappropriate content to your profile and report there profile.

Then you need to move on and ignore them. Trolls get tired after they stop getting responses from you.

You can also change your privacy settings to remove information from your profile and even set it to friends only until they get bored.


Your post was likely removed because you probably posted a link to there profile which is classed as naming and shaming. This is against the community guidelines.

[Ozzette78]

And you are going to tell that to a 13 year old, huh? You are going to make reviewers develop a whole new persona just so they can continue helping the community? You obviously do not not know what kind of work these people put in. I've tried it and I can't do 1/100 of what some do... including the reviewer with 200 followers. The settings are not the point. You people are thick. You do not read and comprehend. That or you are his buddy or commit the same behavior. I'm sick of you people. This is a direct quote from someone I believe is monitoring my post on here for my Stalker. "You also want to make sure that you're still using the right Steam account to log in". And why do I have to change? Why doesn't Steam remove this guy. He has been at it for 7 years. They may keep him as a customer, but how many are they losing because of him? He is violating the Steam rules of conduct, and it goes on and on. Until I see that profile removed, I will post.

[Ozzette78]

Grog head, do you condone this behavior? Because you all that post like this sound like you do. The kids and shyest among us will not post.

[Ozzette78]

Thank those of you who told me to have patience. I will. But I'm not going to stop until this stops. When telling me to change my profile because of the illegal activities of another you all just sound like you are standing up for the stalker and condoning this behavior.

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Diposting pertama kali oleh Ozzette:

Thank those of you who told me to have patience. I will. But I'm not going to stop until this stops. When telling me to change my profile because of the illegal activities of another you all just sound like you are standing up for the stalker and condoning this behavior.

im sorry but this has to be the most ridiculous argument to stand on.

Valve has 100 million plus users, things take time.

Also care to give an example of what you consider cyberbullying? as ppl tend to label pretty much anything that annoys them bullying in my experience

[ShelLuser]

And a troll shows his true face. It's always everyone elses problem and fault (obviously).

You say you're not a child OP but you sure act like one.

(edit)

So I looked at your profile and I immediately see a problem. Several of, what I assume to be your friends, commented on how they reported someone on your behalf (concluded from the posts on your profile). That's the first problem. If you report a profile while the owner didn't have any interaction with you then that in itself is harassment; you're making a false report because it never directly affected nor involved you.

And that can have its affects as well. If some profile gets 10 false reports and 1 real report... how does that look? Because you could then also start wondering if that real report wasn't a result of some false reports (your classic action = reaction scenario).

If someone bothers you then the best you can do is report them, block them and move on.

"Mob justice" will only backfire on you when tried on Steam, and in my not so humble opinion rightfully so.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Report, block, ignore, do not engage and move on.