Skullgirls?

While I do question a lot of the changes they made to Skullgirls 2nd Encore, there was one context where censoring panty shots was entirely understandable.

Filia was one of the characters censored. She's a sixteen year old schoolgirl, and while this may be a stretch, her name sounds like a reference to "paedophilia", which makes the fact that some of her animation frames and concept art were originally drawn upskirted with clearly exposed panties even more problematic.

There are guidelines on Steam that ban such content, and you can report people for violating them.

So no, Steam does not do "nothing" as you claim. A very basic Internet search can confirm that.

Even better, users can rate reviews as helpful or unhelpful. Which is great for a wider variety of reasons, but is also good for reviews that get into a grey area or use dog whistles to hide their true intentions.

If you pump enough money into Linux gaming and do regular sales, a lot can be forgiven apparently. Steam Discussions are one of the most miserable places on the internet I go to semi-regularly and I don't understand how Steam just gets a pass for the stuff that's normal there.

What do you want Steam to do? Be the judge and executioner of what lives and what dies? There is no agreed upon guidelines for what is chud behavior and not so how does Valve make that call?

VALUE PER EMPLOYEE MEANS NOTHING IN THIS CONTEXT. You are saying that fact to imply "rich people need to be the adults if they are going to have that money" and that is absolutely Monarch/Authoritarian enabler thinking. Fuck that.

Valve is not responsible for the shit other people say. Report them if you don't like it. As with democracy, with enough votes things will change. But one person mad at what another person says so they plead to a central authority to shut it down? The Internet has seen this decision turn into legal battles over speech after one trolling shithead decides to use the system against innocent people.

Stop listening to racists and this all goes away.

pressure from investors

This unfortunately trades one group of scumbags for another.

Fucking hell. You were not kidding. This was posted five days ago! The comments on that review are even more vile, to the point where I don't even think I can show them here.

They also famously allow you to work on whatever you want, I doubt many Valve employees want to spend their days cleaning shit like that

They also have guidelines for "user generated content" which includes reviews, and you can report people for violating those guidelines.

Sure Valve does not pay for moderators to check things proactively. I quite like that they don't have AI or some other half-assed attempt at "moderation" like other platforms have. I hate the way that the whole Internet has moved to censor "fuck" and made up the word "unalive" because the automated systems of platforms I don't even use have decided they are the arbitora of what language is allowed.

I think the responsibility to monitor reviews should lie with whoever controls the Steam page: I would assume the publisher most of the time? The publisher and developer should be looking at reviews anyways. Add in the ability for users to vote reviews as helpful or unhelpful and I think it's one of the better systems left on the internet.

The main reason Valve doesn't step in is because it would cost them money. Moderating content is expensive as hell and these corporations will bend themselves backwards finding any and every way to avoid it.

The Steam forums have been full of Nazis for years now. The employees and Newell are just accepting or even embracing the fact that they give fascists a platform

They removed the clown reaction, as well as the ability to get points for receiving reactions.
If that ever was an excuse, it no longer is.

For anyone else not familiar, here's the first line of Relooted's description:

Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game.

The forum is full of exactly what you'd expect.

The reason it got this bad was because they didn't nip it in the bud sooner. If they had been more proactive from the start, there wouldn't be 700+ threads.

At this point, just nuke them all and ban everyone who made a bigoted troll thread. It's gonna be a game of whack-a-mole for a little while, but once you start handing out bans, the trolling will start die down.

For anybody saying "it's not a problem, just moderate it yourself"

I'm of the opposite opinion. It's a much bigger problem than just Steam community moderation and it needs to be addressed more broadly. (Monkey's paw curls)

Stems need a better tools to moderate. It's a pain to manually go thru.

I clicked a random thread and it looks like a lot of posters don't even own the game. I've seen this a lot of times, people flaming and trolling on a game's forum don't even own the game. Thought the simplest fix would be to just not let them post and restrict game forums to those who bought it.

I would very much like to read something about it !

You don't get to talk shit about the bigots when you're among them.

I disagree, bad people can still make good arguments against different bad people. If the shit against bigots is valid, let it be talked.

Talking about my own experience here; there are rules (ToS) which people break and then Valve ignore. Hands off is one thing but being totally nonchalant about these blatant, hate filled transgressions is another all together.