Steam Profile Comments? Where did they go?

[D3STRUCTION]

Log on to steam today and check around my own and others' comment sections and a bunch are missing... I want to say I had about 93 or so comments before, and I know 40+ people didn't simultaneously go back into my profile years later to delete them.

Did steam really go in and remove all old comments? If so, I'd like to think they'd explain themselves. That's a pretty uncool move, if you're going to do something like that it should be a prompt or an option, not just valve taking away my comments for the hell of it...

[Niki]

Very true, but people would still sue them for deleting it ;)

[ref]

My comments disappeared too. A four year old group. .

[Sparse Dunes]

Niki の投稿を引用：

Very true, but people would still sue them for deleting it ;)

More money to valve.

[KutarFOX]

Bunch of comments on Steam groups are randomly gone too. This is outrageous.

[ KARR™]

Niki の投稿を引用：

Very true, but people would still sue them for deleting it ;)

You can't sue someone for deleting their own data. There is no retention policy on 'comments'.

[dotme MXPS]

K.A.R.R. の投稿を引用：

Niki の投稿を引用：

Very true, but people would still sue them for deleting it ;)

You can't sue someone for deleting their own data. There is no retention policy on 'comments'.

It's not their "own data". It's yours in their database. Don't mix things up.

[eram]

ATi の投稿を引用：

K.A.R.R. の投稿を引用：

You can't sue someone for deleting their own data. There is no retention policy on 'comments'.

It's not their "own data". It's yours in their database. Don't mix things up.

This isn't Facebook don't mix things up. Sorry but the comments are gone.

[dotme MXPS]

erλm の投稿を引用：

ATi の投稿を引用：

It's not their "own data". It's yours in their database. Don't mix things up.

This isn't Facebook don't mix things up. Sorry but the comments are gone.

And what facebook has to do with my comment? I never complained about my comments, yes hoping about just being a temporary thing. Sad? Yes. Mad? Nope.

[kdodds]

^Yep. And if they did inform you? Then what? Take a screenshot you'll never look at again? Seriously, in the realm of bad things that could possibly happen, this isn't on the list.

[KutarFOX]

I think Valve should take this more SERIOUSLY.
Things that must not happen actually happened regardless how trivial it may look.
I really think this is a serious issue because comments are being deleted without any end-user intervention. Now I have a fear that it may happen again or something worse in the future; not just comments but my other contributions are also in danger (may be a bit of exaggeration but I really do feel unprotected.) I lost all my motivation to remain as active Steam community user because of this.

Some may not care about their comments being deleted. But people like myself value online and Steam life greatly and think that this is downright outrageous.

Personally I don't have any comments deleted on my profile, (actually months ago, one or two normal comments got deleted accidentally among spam comments that had phishing links. But I decided to forget about it.)

but this time most of comments I left on Steam groups and other guys' profiles are all gone; all the comments I left before 2012 Q4 are gone, except the very few old ones made in 2010.
You know what? valuable memories of old days among my friends and other gamers are all gone.

Fortunately, all my randomly deleted comments by Valve are still listed in my comment history. You know if you delete your comments by yourself or other Steam users, history also gets wiped out. So check your comment history if you still have them too. Hopefully THAT can help us recover the deleted comments, if Valve ever have intentions of correcting it.

This really needs to be fixed.

[eram]

Do post links here to user profiles with issues, we can't do anything with the links. (A post was removed)

[KutarFOX]

erλm の投稿を引用：

Do post links here to user profiles with issues, we can't do anything with the links. (A post was removed)

eram, it wasn't links to profiles, I linked other forum discussions. please undo the delete, or if you can't please check the links again and verify my saying.

I might have to write a letter directly to Gabe Newell. I can't help doing it.
Steam users will just move on and play games as usual but if issues like this persist, this will do no good for Steam community as a whole in the long run.

EDIT: forgive me if I am breaking rules by posting other forum discussion links. but to my knowledge it isn't against the rules. eram, I am afraid you were too quick to judge and deleted my comment without reading properly... So I will post links again, please enlighten and correct me if I did something wrong.


these guys have the same problem and created their own threads.

[Niki]

My point with the "sue" comment was. If this was COMMENTS on Facebook, people would take it 10x more serious and sue Facebook for removing them, as most people see that as part of their "life".
Obviously comments on steam is for a lot of people taken a lot less seriously. But for others it is actually taken serious. Steam should respect that fact and not just go ahead and do something.
The least they could have done was informing us of this happening and why. At least I would have respected them then... And so would the rest of the community.
My point being with the whole facebook thing... Steam shouldn't take it any less serious than that and should have informed us! There is no reason not to.

[KutarFOX]

Niki の投稿を引用：

My point with the "sue" comment was. If this was COMMENTS on Facebook, people would take it 10x more serious and sue Facebook for removing them, as most people see that as part of their "life".
Obviously comments on steam is for a lot of people taken a lot less seriously. But for others it is actually taken serious. Steam should respect that fact and not just go ahead and do something.
The least they could have done was informing us of this happening and why. At least I would have respected them then... And so would the rest of the community.
My point being with the whole facebook thing... Steam shouldn't take it any less serious than that and should have informed us! There is no reason not to.

Exactly! I know Valve aims to make their own community big, wholesome and complete.

A bit childish thinking by me but,,, you know Valve has been through a lot of hassles like users boycotting paid Skyrim mods, etc.. Is really Valve retaliating their own users by not doing their best and not taking care of the basic community features? I can't help but feel very disappointed.

Steam profile is like my own website and blog now, not to mention money and time I spent to level up my Steam level. This issue must be corrected.

[eram]

Kutar FOX の投稿を引用：

erλm の投稿を引用：

Do post links here to user profiles with issues, we can't do anything with the links. (A post was removed)

eram, it wasn't links to profiles, I linked other forum discussions. please undo the delete, or if you can't please check the links again and verify my saying.

I might have to write a letter directly to Gabe Newell. I can't help doing it.
Steam users will just move on and play games as usual but if issues like this persist, this will do no good for Steam community as a whole in the long run.

EDIT: forgive me if I am breaking rules by posting other forum discussion links. but to my knowledge it isn't against the rules. eram, I am afraid you were too quick to judge and deleted my comment without reading properly... So I will post links again, please enlighten and correct me if I did something wrong.


these guys have the same problem and created their own threads.

We can't do anything with this info here. You don't need to post any examples.

EDIT posts have been edited, post below removed. That's all the answers I have for you here.