"Community ban" causes perman ban?

[Hunter]

This is the second time I've received a "Community Ban" in my main account.
First time it lasted a week, just because I was temporarily ban on two games forums.
This time it was because I made a comment criticizing Diablo 4 and comparing it to BG3.
I was temporarily banned on the Diablo forum saying it was spam, then I received "Community Ban", my main account has been completely blocked for 2 weeks.

"Your Steam Community privileges have been suspended for 2 weeks because of multiple bans across several Steam Community Hubs."
"Community privileges will automatically be restored on 6 Dec"

Now am I at risk of losing my account if this happens again? or do they just increase the ban duration next time?

Imagine spending my money on this platform and losing my account for such a stupid reason, I did not commit a crime..

[sim 35th]

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

Multiple game hub bans within a short period of time cause community bans to prevent people from generally causing more trouble for a period of time. It will say permanent if it's permanent, else it will show a date&time it'll expire.

If this is happening more than once, then it really comes down to how you're handling discussions which I like to emphasize it's what you say and how you say it being the difference between getting into trouble and actually having a discussion, so have caution when posting.

I would be more cautious >>

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/6367585250004982622/

Though maybe you are breaking some of their rules or EULA... just don't want to offend anyone

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Hunter:

Originally posted by Lithurge:

There's a difference between being able to participate in the community and being able to play your games. Being banned from participating in the former does not mean you lose the latter.

If my account were permanently ban from the community, it would be the same as throwing my account in the trash.

That's a YOU problem then.

The point is you AGREED to the terms of usage when you started using Steam.

If you use Steam in such a way that losing the community features disrupts all YOUR gameplaying then that's on you. Entirely.

It doesn't change a thing.

Now you can choose to alter your behaviour and stick to the rules you agreed to (assuming this is termporary) and continue like every other normal user does fine, or admit this isn't for you and again that's on YOU.

Either way, it's YOUR problem.

[Thermal Lance]

Behave yourself.

Problem Solved.

[WOKEGOD]

just use smurf if you re that insecure and toxicity lol

[Worldzworstgamer]

OP I feel your pain.

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

Stay away from the baiting trolls on the forums.

It is best to leave your comment then don't respond/subscribe, especially if your thoughts go against the peanut gallery.

Simply leave on a high note.

[Crashed]

Just so you know the forums are not provided so that disgruntled players can bully developers.

[Lunar Fang]

Originally posted by Hunter:

Originally posted by Lithurge:

There's a difference between being able to participate in the community and being able to play your games. Being banned from participating in the former does not mean you lose the latter.

If my account were permanently ban from the community, it would be the same as throwing my account in the trash.

Unfortunately a lot of mods will throw in their personal and political views. So you basically have to be as bland with your comments as you can be. I was once banned because someone asked what would you do if someone was interested in you and I said they were stupid and I would hit them with an object for wanting to be interested in me. Because I'm a dumpster fire train wreck of a meat sack, but I got banned for like inciting violence or something.

[Bishop]

You always run the risk of being banned entirely from steam or having your account deleted if you commit wrongthink on the forums. That's the sad reality of modern gaming. Say something that a moderator or someone finds offensive? Account closed, money stolen. One particular recent example was a guy who had his EA account erased for telling someone to shut up in an online multiplayer match. Give it another year or so and Steam will follow suit. That's why you should avoid supporting big tech companies like Valve as much as possible and ignore the bootlickers who run defense for them by saying "muh private companies can do whatever they like hur dur dur."

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by Chross:

You always run the risk of being banned entirely from steam or having your account deleted if you commit wrongthink on the forums. That's the sad reality of modern gaming. Say something that a moderator or someone finds offensive? Account closed, money stolen. One particular recent example was a guy who had his EA account erased for telling someone to shut up in an online multiplayer match. Give it another year or so and Steam will follow suit. That's why you should avoid supporting big tech companies like Valve as much as possible and ignore the bootlickers who run defense for them by saying "muh private companies can do whatever they like hur dur dur."

Nothing you said is true.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Chross:

You always run the risk of being banned entirely from steam or having your account deleted if you commit wrongthink on the forums. That's the sad reality of modern gaming. Say something that a moderator or someone finds offensive? Account closed, money stolen. One particular recent example was a guy who had his EA account erased for telling someone to shut up in an online multiplayer match. Give it another year or so and Steam will follow suit. That's why you should avoid supporting big tech companies like Valve as much as possible and ignore the bootlickers who run defense for them by saying "muh private companies can do whatever they like hur dur dur."

Nice dogwhistling, tells me your bans are probably correct.

[Bishop]

Originally posted by SlowMango:

Originally posted by Chross:

You always run the risk of being banned entirely from steam or having your account deleted if you commit wrongthink on the forums. That's the sad reality of modern gaming. Say something that a moderator or someone finds offensive? Account closed, money stolen. One particular recent example was a guy who had his EA account erased for telling someone to shut up in an online multiplayer match. Give it another year or so and Steam will follow suit. That's why you should avoid supporting big tech companies like Valve as much as possible and ignore the bootlickers who run defense for them by saying "muh private companies can do whatever they like hur dur dur."

Nothing you said is true.

How so? Everyone who's been on the forums for a length of time knows that bans are handed out haphazardly by moderators who only enforce the rules when they want a particular user to be silenced. Aside from that the ToS says your games and account can be revoked whenever Valve chooses, so yeah you don't really own anything and can have your money stolen at a moments notice. Which is a real concern for customers.

The case I provided with EA closing someone's account for in game speech can be read about in this article here:

https://nichegamer.com/ea-allegedly-bans-player-from-all-their-games-for-saying-stfu/

It seems reasonable that Steam will one day follow EA's example given how many lobbyists and interest groups like the ADL have pressured Valve to combat "hate speech" and to moderate users in an more aggressive fashion. Gabe himself is a supporter of the democratic party, the Biden campaign in particular, which is the same administration that has fought tooth and nail to remove free speech from the Internet and society at large. So yeah I'm just reading the writing on the wall here. I hope I'm wrong but I'm not hopeful for the future of steam or digital storefronts in general.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Chross:

Originally posted by SlowMango:

Nothing you said is true.

How so? Everyone who's been on the forums for a length of time knows that bans are handed out haphazardly by moderators who only enforce the rules when they want a particular user to be silenced. Aside from that the ToS says your games and account can be revoked whenever Valve chooses, so yeah you don't really own anything and can have your money stolen at a moments notice. Which is a real concern for customers.

The case I provided with EA closing someone's account for in game speech can be read about in this article here:

https://nichegamer.com/ea-allegedly-bans-player-from-all-their-games-for-saying-stfu/

It seems reasonable that Steam will one day follow EA's example given how many lobbyists and interest groups like the ADL have pressured Valve to combat "hate speech" and to moderate users in an more aggressive fashion. Gabe himself is a supporter of the democratic party, the Biden campaign in particular, which is the same administration that has fought tooth and nail to remove free speech from the Internet and society at large. So yeah I'm just reading the writing on the wall here. I hope I'm wrong but I'm not hopeful for the future of steam or digital storefronts in general.

Well for one Steam doesn't delete accounts, the most you would get is a community ban that doesn't effect your games you've purchased

Secondly most people don't get banned, let alone community banned.

Third moderators do not have the ability to lock your account and prevent you from accessing games, let alone deleting your account.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by Chross:

Originally posted by SlowMango:

Nothing you said is true.

How so? Everyone who's been on the forums for a length of time knows that bans are handed out haphazardly by moderators who only enforce the rules when they want a particular user to be silenced. Aside from that the ToS says your games and account can be revoked whenever Valve chooses, so yeah you don't really own anything and can have your money stolen at a moments notice. Which is a real concern for customers.

The case I provided with EA closing someone's account for in game speech can be read about in this article here:

https://nichegamer.com/ea-allegedly-bans-player-from-all-their-games-for-saying-stfu/

It seems reasonable that Steam will one day follow EA's example given how many lobbyists and interest groups like the ADL have pressured Valve to combat "hate speech" and to moderate users in an more aggressive fashion. Gabe himself is a supporter of the democratic party, the Biden campaign in particular, which is the same administration that has fought tooth and nail to remove free speech from the Internet and society at large. So yeah I'm just reading the writing on the wall here. I hope I'm wrong but I'm not hopeful for the future of steam or digital storefronts in general.

Even in the link you provided:

Originally posted by NicheGamer:

There is also the possibility that the message was Photoshopped for the sake of acquiring attention.

Every time the ADL has attempted to pressure Valve, they have been ignored.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Originally posted by Chross:

How so? Everyone who's been on the forums for a length of time knows that bans are handed out haphazardly by moderators who only enforce the rules when they want a particular user to be silenced. Aside from that the ToS says your games and account can be revoked whenever Valve chooses, so yeah you don't really own anything and can have your money stolen at a moments notice. Which is a real concern for customers.

The case I provided with EA closing someone's account for in game speech can be read about in this article here:

https://nichegamer.com/ea-allegedly-bans-player-from-all-their-games-for-saying-stfu/

It seems reasonable that Steam will one day follow EA's example given how many lobbyists and interest groups like the ADL have pressured Valve to combat "hate speech" and to moderate users in an more aggressive fashion. Gabe himself is a supporter of the democratic party, the Biden campaign in particular, which is the same administration that has fought tooth and nail to remove free speech from the Internet and society at large. So yeah I'm just reading the writing on the wall here. I hope I'm wrong but I'm not hopeful for the future of steam or digital storefronts in general.

Well for one Steam doesn't delete accounts, the most you would get is a community ban that doesn't effect your games you've purchased

Secondly most people don't get banned, let alone community banned.

Third moderators do not have the ability to lock your account and prevent you from accessing games, let alone deleting your account.

They delete accounts. There's only one recorded instance of it after the user harassed, insulted, and threatened Valve employees for over a year and through various alts.

He tried to log into it one day and it just said "This account is no longer available." or something to that affect.