Whats the dumbest thing you got banned for on steam?

[Coffee]

Me, I put up non-porn screenshots of a hentai game that only had nudity available in the game, so it was just nude screenshots of what was essentially handdrawn artwork. And then I got a 7 day suspension from posting any community content...despite the game only being viewed by those who say they are "18" (kids can still say it but oh well lol) or older, and it was a literal hentai game...so I guess steam hates hentai but allowed the game. But was definitely the stupidest thing I got in trouble for on steam, because that meant no one could actually put any screenshots of that game at all without getting in trouble, so one could go to the game community page and just report every single person on there.

I wasnt even angry either, it was so dumb it actually made me laugh so I joke about it all the time lol. But was definitely the dumbest thing I got a community suspension for on steam lol.

You ever been banned for anything dumb on steam? I know sometimes one can be banned on a game forum page. I've heard some funny stories out of there.

[WhiteKnight]

Nope never got banned. Since i don't do dumb things.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Spamming. A couple times. Lifted as well.

[Coffee]

Originally posted by WhiteKnight:

Nope never got banned. Since i don't do dumb things.

to be fair, people who get community banned the most are people who play hentai games. Which is funny, does make hentai games a bait. Otherwise anyone who doesnt play them (or if they do never shares anything from them which kinda defeats the purpose of that game having a community page outside a forum tbh), is safe from that. But they are the biggest group of people who get banned are those who play hentai games, even just sharing the content on the game page itself.

[Garou]

Trying to change the status quo of the suggestions forum.
Now that I remember it better: engaging certain "protected" buddies of the authority leads to problems as well it seems.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by F35:

Trying to change the status quo of the suggestions forum.

It happens. But then you ignore it and steam on through.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

challenging a devs customer service skills...
but i learnt the error of my ways... no such
thing as customer service in their world... i see 11 fingers

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

No bans, just a warning but a warning means a ban is probably coming up next & also people talk... a lot about this subject.

Personally, I posted a STEAM store link where the title & description of the game fit the question being asked in the topic (in "Off Topic") but that context doesn't matter I guess - warned for spam.
The topic in question wasn't locked so the issue was not the topic & I don't understand what the issue is with Steam links when the title, description, or game content, is relevant to the question being asked or topic discussion (especially when said topic doesn't get locked or deleted & is thus left open for discussion). So maybe the take-away is just no posting Steam store links except in the ONE designated topic in the "Steam Discussions" forum, but I don't know for sure.

The fact that they'll penalize someone for something that doesn't get deleted when other users post it, & seems to the user to follow the rules (which I did read, many times) - which is the only explanation that is ever given ("Read the Steam Community Guidelines for our reasoning"), then, as a result, someone with an understanding of the rules can begin to doubt that understanding. Since questions aren't generally answered, users may begin to doubt that the "Community Guidelines" even mean anything at all.

That, along with the way they can use the terms "spam" & "trolling" as a catchall, whenever they choose to issue a warning or ban, without needing to actually specify why it's spam/trolling or what even constitutes "spam/trolling" I fully expect bans in the future, though. I don't want them but it's kind of hard to NOT, eventually, violate an ambiguous rule that doesn't specify what the issue is, & isn't ever elaborated on, & seems to only get enforced based on how the enforcers are "feeling".

I mean, of all the staff that I asked, no one could even be bothered to say, "I don't know" or "I don't care".
It's just all of these copy & paste messages that you see & actions being taken without any explanation to actually help the user adjust their behavior to be more inline with the community / service expectations.

The user just has to guess & will probably guess wrong.


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[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by Neferata:

Originally posted by WhiteKnight:

Nope never got banned. Since i don't do dumb things.

to be fair, people who get community banned the most are people who play hentai games. Which is funny, does make hentai games a bait. Otherwise anyone who doesnt play them (or if they do never shares anything from them which kinda defeats the purpose of that game having a community page outside a forum tbh), is safe from that. But they are the biggest group of people who get banned are those who play hentai games, even just sharing the content on the game page itself.

No its not bait. Failure to read the rules regarding UGC is what gets them.

[Coffee]

Originally posted by Fiddle:

Originally posted by Neferata:

to be fair, people who get community banned the most are people who play hentai games. Which is funny, does make hentai games a bait. Otherwise anyone who doesnt play them (or if they do never shares anything from them which kinda defeats the purpose of that game having a community page outside a forum tbh), is safe from that. But they are the biggest group of people who get banned are those who play hentai games, even just sharing the content on the game page itself.

No its not bait. Failure to read the rules regarding UGC is what gets them.

sharing the game's content that results in a ban is bait by all definitions. If buying the game, playing the game and sharing the games content within the games own community section gets one to break the rules, that is literally bait lol

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

I was caught in a massive ban wave of any gmod addons containing the word "sex" in the description. Didn't matter the context. I know it was a wave because when I looked up the word, with no filters, I only got two pages of results. That's weird for gmod. This was back in 2016 and it seems no one noticed.

[Gilga ™ |Yonaguni|]

Posting a link to a free game, in a thread about sharing free games. Happend so often, that i stopped sharing free games with the community at all.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Spamming. A couple times. Lifted as well.

:qr:

No backseat moderation? I've had bans for just explaining why someone got banned, because they were complaining about their ban.

But if you want stupidest, I have a permanent ban from a game hub for sharing a news story about the author's copyright lawsuit (which he later lost).

[kitt]

hurt feelings

[SNP]

Posted a picture of trash and likened it to anime, one week ban.
Meanwhile in another thread: someone tells me to die in a fire and gets a slap on the wrist.

[Devil`s Rejected]

I only got banned for 3 days on the Star Wars Squadron latest game forum by directing my comment towards disney saying something like
"Disney sends Anakin Skywalker Jr. to rape baby Yoda"
Because they did the same to Indiana Jones, like seen on SouthPark.

No any other kind of ban for me in almost 17 years of Steam usage! :P