Random group invites to non-friends removed from Steam?

[GarlenQwQ]

Is this going to be permanent?
This will make collecting members for your group really difficult.

You always have the option to ignore or block a person that spams invites to you ... why wasn't that enough?

I bet there is some reason again ... I assume the explanation is going to be similar to why "/me" was taken out of steam chat.

I really wish this would be reversed. :^(

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It will not be reversed.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1446071197008661976

[Spawn of Totoro]

Because blocking does not stop the invites and multiple bot accounts can still spam invites to the group.

It is a permanent change.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1446071197008661976

Players are understandably annoyed by these spam invites from random users.

To address this, you can now only be invited into a group by your friends. This still maintains the common uses of forming a closed group to hang out with your friends, or creating a restricted group for people of similar interests or achievements.

[zongivila]

Because everyone that is playing csgo was getting spammed af getting 5+ scam groups invites per day and it was really annoying to report/ignore every day for 10times :P and everyone was complaining and Valve fixed it so ty

[GarlenQwQ]

"When we first created the Steam Community groups, the community itself was a smaller and simpler place. We wanted to give players on Steam an easy way to find other people with the same interests, coordinate their activities, and share their creative output. To that end, we made the tools and systems for joining and managing groups as simple as we could. When there were few great tools for discovering user groups, sending direct invites offered a way to spread awareness and build communities. But as the Steam Community has grown this approach to invites has not kept up with the needs of players. There are now many more ways to discover new and interesting groups and the invite system has been abused by more and more organized spammers."

Sigh, so it really is another "/me" dilemma.

:^(

Rest in Pepperoni, my dear random group invites.

[R.A.T. Army *MST3K*]

This is a bad call by Valve. I doubt they will reverse it, but they could change it to give an option to block invites from non-friends. They have plenty of other options on the profile, why not this.

Why not indeed.