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Steam allowing curators to promote homophobia. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by Grimm@lemmy.zip to c/bisexual@lemmy.world

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I reported them for harassment with the following statement:

The purpose of this group is to review bomb any game that has gay representation. Their discussion threads talk about using other platforms to discriminate against LGBTQ+ communities and individuals to circumvent Steam's TOS policies. This type of behavior promotes discrimination, review brigading, and toxicity. It is surprising Steam is tolerating such open homophobia on this platform.

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[-] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Until the curator gets shut down, their list is a great reference of games to buy

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[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Would be neat to inverse subscribe to a curator, which would have the system recommend you the opposite of what they do.

[-] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 months ago

I don't think that they promote homophobia. The texts clearly are in favor of the games, they probably missed the Recommend button several times in a row

[-] icedterminal@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

There's a lot more than that: https://store.steampowered.com/curators/topcurators/?filter=all&keywords=woke&x=0&y=0#

[-] DrPop@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Some of these cute curators don't understand subtext. Labelling the game Unpacking as not woke.

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[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Maybe its time that America re-evaluates if they want to give tax exemptions to homophobic cult organizations.

[-] vga@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] Gigagoblin 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

you should get your ears checked. lotsa whistling of a certain kind in the words this curator used.

e : also, one shitty thing doesn't mean another can't exist. not sure why you're here in the first place.

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[-] Catpurple 15 points 4 months ago

Steam has a hard limit on like 200 curators to ignore, after which point it will print a vague error about it not working. I know, I hit that limit. That's not a solution.

[-] Grimm@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 months ago

The curator wants to use offensive language but avoids doing so to prevent getting banned. So they use “polite” ways to discriminate and encourage their following to do so as well.

If you looked any further into this group and exited your own bubble, you would realize this. Instead you commented without reading further and assumed I reported this group because they don’t enjoy the same types of games I do.

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[-] Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

I find their selective use of quotation marks quite offensive.

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[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

I get not being interested in games that have strong lgbtq+ themes or story. I'm not, but I'm also glad they exist and people can find games that represent them. I'm also not opposed to playing as an lgbtq+ character in the same way I don't mind playing as a female character.

Being so close minded you can't stand for sandbox games to allow you to make a pride flag, or an RPG allow you to make a non binary character is just hateful.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

What a pathetic and sad way to spend time in your life. Spreading hate...

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago

You reported the page, did Steam respond?

[-] Grimm@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago

No and I don’t expect anything to come of it.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

They’re being intentional and trying to toe the line. Here’s them low key complaining that they can’t make a big deal about trans VAs.

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Of course Steam tolerates it. Gabe Newell, Steam’s owner, is a hardcore libertarian. I bet he believes that hate speech is free speech.

They will only do anything about it if it will lose them money.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean it's very possible that they simply don't know about it.

It's a very small curator.

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[-] blahsay@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Funny thing is, statistically speaking, they're probably closeted gay themselves.

Seriously though who cares? It's not really spreading hate - a lot of closeted or close minded people aren't comfortable with their sexuality and are going to do this.

People don't have to like everything, relax.

[-] Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago

I dunno. I think every list like this ends up helping to normalize hate and bigotry. That said, if I made one of these with a list of Christian games to avoid, it doesn’t mean I hate Christians, it just means that I am looking to avoid games with Christianity in them.

The difference here is that “woke” is a loaded and weaponized term. It’s like having a list of “groomer” games and then filling that list with games featuring LGBT+ characters. It’s based in bigotry.

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