Hate speech is getting out of control in multiple forums

[Hatsune Miku]

First off, kudos on the moderators having to obviously put in a lot of work but its fairly obvious that in some forums such as the Hogwarts Legacy, Deadspace and others which all have some sort of transgender issue related to it, the forums are literally toxic with hate speech being the prevalent issue and it is either being ignored or is slow to be taken down.

This is also attracted many trolls posting for award points. The question is, what can be done about this? Perhaps, its time for bans and warnings? I had to report multiple posts which clearly hate speech, others were abusing and some even promoting violence, yes its that out of control.

[Crazy Tiger]

Report the posts. Keep in mind that it can take a bit of time before moderators process the reports. There are lots of reports daily.

[SON90NGL03!]

Replying hatred with hatred multiplies hatred.
passive aggressive people everywhere.
moderation by one simple logical rule is needed more than ever.
pleasing everyone on the internet is impossible, but sacrifices have to be made.
but the question is who can and is willing to make the sacrifice.

[Hatsune Miku]

Originally posted by 5ON90NGL03!:

Replying hatred with hatred multiplies hatred.
passive aggressive people everywhere.
moderation by one simple logical rule is needed more than ever.
pleasing everyone on the internet is impossible, but sacrifices have to be made.
but the question is who can and is willing to make the sacrifice.

Well, when people in the Hogwarts Legacy forums are starting to openly post about killing trans people or saying they should be shot, that level of disgusting posts needs to be dealt with wouldn't you say?

[Chef]

I can't wait for people to stop talking about this.

• If you want to play the game then go for it.
  
• If you don't want to then don't.

It's literally that easy.

[Hatsune Miku]

Originally posted by Chef:

I can't wait for people to stop talking about this.

• If you want to play the game then go for it.
  
• If you don't want to then don't.

It's literally that easy.

This problem has got much worse since the steam awards started so trolls are literally farming peoples emotions for points by posting ever increasingly evil posts and the mods take a while to remove the threads, the posts are still awarded though.

Hogwarts Legecy forums are especially toxic right now with a hate speech left right and center, if I was mod, I would literally just lock the entire forum right now because its just devolved into a flaming war.

[SLG]

You do understand that Steam/Valve do not moderate the game hubs. They have their own moderators.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by SLGray:

You do understand that Steam/Valve do not moderate the game hubs. They have their own moderators.

Unless the opted out of Steam Support Moderation, they do.

Both Hogwart's Legacy and the new Deadspace both have not opted out.

[Qbert ⭐]

That hub won't be moderated for a while because trolls open 3 threads everytime one is closed.

[Hatsune Miku]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by SLGray:

You do understand that Steam/Valve do not moderate the game hubs. They have their own moderators.

Unless the opted out of Steam Support Moderation, they do.

Both Hogwart's Legacy and the new Deadspace both have not opted out.

:qr:

I wasn't exactly sure on that, so they both fall within steam support moderation team, right now - I feel bad for them because the forums a pretty toxic, and the feeling that its unsafe for trans people to post anything.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Tsukasa Hiiragi:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Unless the opted out of Steam Support Moderation, they do.

Both Hogwart's Legacy and the new Deadspace both have not opted out.

I wasn't exactly sure on that, so they both fall within steam support moderation team, right now - I feel bad for them because the forums a pretty toxic, and the feeling that its unsafe for trans people to post anything.

You can just look at any locked thread and see the last post made by Steam Support.

[76561199281265327]

if my hog had warts id be wanting to tell everyone on the forums too, wouldn't you?

[Crawl]

Originally posted by Tsukasa Hiiragi:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Unless the opted out of Steam Support Moderation, they do.

Both Hogwart's Legacy and the new Deadspace both have not opted out.

:qr:

I wasn't exactly sure on that, so they both fall within steam support moderation team, right now - I feel bad for them because the forums a pretty toxic, and the feeling that its unsafe for trans people to post anything.

What are they going to do? Jump through your computer screen and get you? Its words on the internet. If you see something you don't like move on, getting triggered is exactly the reaction they want and why they will continue to do it.

[Hatsune Miku]

Originally posted by Crawl:

Originally posted by Tsukasa Hiiragi:

I wasn't exactly sure on that, so they both fall within steam support moderation team, right now - I feel bad for them because the forums a pretty toxic, and the feeling that its unsafe for trans people to post anything.

What are they going to do? Jump through your computer screen and get you? Its words on the internet. If you see something you don't like move on, getting triggered is exactly the reaction they want and why they will continue to do it.

No, I'm saying many people are clearly violating forum rules on hate speech and even violence.

[Hatsune Miku]

In the past hour or so, the Hogwarts Legacy forum has devolved into 4chan, its that bad and something needs to be done about it now, the levels of cyber-bullying and hate speech has got way out of hand. This is new levels of toxicity, even by steams standards.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

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