Why does Gabe allow Chuds to run amok on the Steam forums?https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/16/bigotry-steam-pc-moderation-developers-speak-out?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1771237457
that's the steam userbase, if you don't like it sell your game on epic game store or ea origin or some other website
>>733202482>developersI don't care what indieflop #30795 developer says about Steam.
>>733202482How dare Steam allow opinions from EVERY side!Steam should only allow opinions that aling with The Big Media!
>>733202482nnnnnnnoooo stop complaining and just buy our slop
>we have to protect the rights of the proletariat>wait, not like that!modern leftists are such retards. A fucking communist newspaper begging for censorship so effete capitalists can get away with selling shoddy products to unsuspecting consumers, can you believe it?
>>733202482Why exactly have the powers that be aligned against steam of all fucking things? They don’t even try to be subtle (using retards like Tim Sweeny). Is it just because it isn’t publicly traded?
>>733203059You realize news sites are funded by rich people right? Newspapers too. It's a delicate balance between appeasing the rich and farming clicks. Like who even follows this shit, I get all my news from discord.
>>733203162Steam is a private company so they can't profit off of it
>>733202482>shitty devs looking for more excuses to why it's not their fault they're a failure
steam literally employs shills to harass people, its a dirty companyIts support staff are literally sourced from the community and are a bunch of gamer dude bros.
>>733203447Based, I wanna get paid to harass people online. How do I apply?
>>733202482>Oh no, why do these CHUDS have a right to say what they think and voice what they're bothered by? How AWFUL, why is this allowed? Only ME and people who think exactly like me should be allowed to have a voice!
>>733202482Developers can already moderate their own steam forum. Expecting Valve to play nanny to literally hundreds of thousands of games' individual forums is beyond absurd. But they just leap at a chance to play victim for that sweet sweet social currency, I guess.
>>733202482Maybe stop making shitty lgbt crap and we'll stop review bombing your shitty games.
>>733202482'targeted' anti-woke reviews is just corpo-speak for "consensus among paying customers that crap is crap, they don't like it, and won't pay for it".
>>733203162Steam allows chud games and allows chud gamers to form groups.
>>733203983Anon... there is no "review bombing".It's a fictional tern meant to imply that a shit game getting bad reviews isn't both natural and how it's ALWAYS been.Expect in the before times, game reviewers used to be the ones saying that things were shit.
>>733203917Turns out, upvotes don't pay the bills. Who knew.
The fuck is chuds?
>>733204330chuds are chums and buds
>>733204330It's a slur for people who are always online, typically right leaning, anti-woke types.Comes from the 1984 movie about Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. People that were ugly and deranged. Trolls under the bridge types.It's the new "neckbeard" / "incel" / "living in mommy's basement" reddit tier slang name given to anyone who doesn't support "the current thing".
>>733203917I got banned from the Assasins Creed Origins steam discussions for posting "We".Good times.
Luckily there is /vg/ for us anti-chud xisters
>>733204601/vg/ is cancerous redditfugees, color me completely unsurprised. Any 24/7 thread is bound to be cancer.
>>733204601/vg/ being a redditor colony is this knitting BBS's worst kept secret.
>>733204601There's a /pol/-tier screencap that floats around every now and then that compares 4chsn and reddit and it goes on at length how reddit is a heavily moderated, ago-speak heavy, cleaned-up glazing of current thing echo chamber and how 4chan is basically the wild west where a person might call you a faggot, but tell you something generally helpful, that reddit is so serious and everyone is chasing upvotes and likes and it becomes this sanitized fake toxic positivity shithole and 4chan can be vulgar but it's more real and funny and how it's just sad that this is the place most people would rather be because the experience is authentic and on-point, rather than some HR committee drum circle that is reddit. Tumblr had the same problem. Community moderation is the death of the community.You're all niggers and faggots, but I'd rather be here than reddit.
>>733204568Assassin's Creed Shadows steam discussions banned people for posting the Netflix 'N' image. Or just for posting 'N'.
>>733202482>targeted campaigns of anti woke reviewsbut the anti chud reviews are fine?fucking hypocrites
>>733202482>Games flop>Players salt the woundCry some more devs, you made a shit product, it will be ridiculed.
>>733205128What game? Dev sounds based.
>>733205128Sounds good, now tell me it ain't gacha please.
>>733204468Except I don’t think anyone actually uses it unironically except for that hideous beady eyed gay retard, David Gaydar (and there is nothing he could call you that would be worse than his physical existence is for him.)
>>733202482Shabbos goyim game developers and leftoids who side with jewish supremacists (which means all leftists) are the worst kind of traitors.
>>733202482Leftism only survives due to mass censorship of differing opinions.
>>733205279>>733205281https://store.steampowered.com/app/2336220/Feed_the_Cups/
how do these sheltered faggots go outside without having a panic attack?
>>733204330Shorthand for a chad who's a studChad Stud = Chud
>>733205128>leave negative review at 100 hours>continue playing for another 100 hoursi dont understand
>>733203162The recent attack (lawsuit, hit piece) come from Britain. Someone over there is really making a power move. I expect some Bri'ish politicians to make a move next
Why are there so many attacks on Steam from Britain lately?
>>733202482It became normal when they tried to push their woke agendas.
>>733207661It doesn’t have to from the US. Global players control the countries. Why else would a fucking literal hungarian zombie ex-nazi jew run our elections?
>>733203983You are the kind of scum the article refers to. A normal person would just move on, but you sickos believe that review-bombing is somehow justified and even needed.
>>733203162>Private company>Completely buttfucks the rest of the vidya industry with a fraction of the spending>More or less the last place online where actual user forums (or discussions as they're now called exist).>No contracting out to shell companies pretending to be independent contractors to enforce worldwide computer gangster godbrain shit onto people
>>733204601>>733204861>>733204854That's not what that screenshot says retardbros...
>>733202482>people are begging for woke games and we're going to give it to them>there's a hate campaign to bring us down, but it's just trolls. everyone we've talked to loves it>2 digit player count on release>what even is "woke"?
Because he is on the right side of history.
>>733207931The last reply is a redditor espousing the redeeming values of /vg/ and smoothing over the lack of filter on 4chan and why it's still worth going, faggot. Why don't YOU read?
>>733202482every developper with a bluesky account should have their games banned from steam, then we'd be free of bigotry and shit games
>>733203824move to california and be a games journo. you just need to pretend to be trans so you can justify being a super karen
>>733203917Devs can’t delete shit, as discussed in the article you failed to read.
I wouldn't have to be a bigot if people who aren't me didn't exist, therefore it is literally not my fault that I'm a bigot. If I had my way, everyone would be me and everything would be about me, and I do not deserve to be vilified for wanting that. I am the victim because I'm forced to share my world with billions of people who aren't me, and I don't even get a say in the matter.
>>733203983What’s stopping someone from organizing a hate campaign against a right wing dev? What happens when some cunt posts on an innocent devs forum some sort of false accusation? Steam doesn’t give a fuck. Only a retard could be happy about a policy that has the potential to fuck everyone over just because you dislike a small portion of the people it might fuck.
>>733208502Ah yes, because those systems of control have historically protected the right wing and not been used to silence them.Go peddle your retarded nonsense elsewhere. Companies should be apolitical.
>>733208410Bullshit. Devs police their own forums constantly, locking and deleting threads and banning people they don't like just for critiquing their unpopular, often woke, decisions. I've witnessed it firsthand. People get banned all the goddamn time. You expect me to believe they're forwarding every naughty post to Valve for deletion?And you're damn right I'm not giving their clickbait that throws around the word "bigotry" for views. That's not a failure of mine, that's yours.
>>733208502If Steam doesn't ban the dev, then it won't impact his livelihood as long as he simply ignores it.
>>733208502Right wing tends to be anti-censorship, anti-big brother. Cry all you want about a right-wing dev, it's really the best advertisement they can ask for. Unlike you, I feel like my ideas would thrive in a free marketplace.
>>733208502>What’s stopping someone from organizing a hate campaign against a right wing dev?Nothing, happens all the time.
>>733204874Reddit and 4chan are the same if you've been on 4chan for more than 10 years...hell 14 years now since the board changed to "Reddit, but you can say hard-R nigger"Literally the same takes, the same shitposts, although it's virtually impossible to have a conversation on /v/ now because the average poster feels a need to include 30 layers of irony and parrot the same 3-5 jokes in every thread. There used to be a comic comparing 4chan to reddit where 4chan kills a horse laughs and moves on the redditors take turns whacking at the dead horse. I used to think it was hilarious, but now that's the entire internet, 4chan and /v/ ESPECIALLY included. Anyone complaining about reddit in 20-fucking-26 instantly outs themselves as a newfag to me: this really isn't /v/ anymore.
>>733209086Bullshit. The upvote system is inherently echo chamber conducive.
>>733209086Ok reddit, go away.
>>733209197And here, your post gets ignored if you're not baiting and the bait is the same every time>twitter screenshot>game journo outrage bait>steam charts>sales comparisons>literal streamer and eceleb upload threads>consolewarring (when 90% of console libraries are the fucking same, so all anyone has to talk about are sales and specs)>no new OC--you've been seeing different flavors of the same 5 images for the past 12 years>everyone says the same fucking thing when an actual video game shows up(fotm trannyslop, sales, metacritic scores, and buy an ad)No one has an original thought on this board anymore. Case in point>>733209212 . It should be studied as an example of the loss of collective intelligence on the internet whether because so many more people are aware of places like 4chan now or because most of this board is a younger generation of slower, less creative, and outright less funny individuals.
>>733209453I mean more pertinent the issue is that the staff running this board have gone full boar with shilling crap and deleting threads about games people are actually interested in, and should that not work pretending to be obnoxious fans of that game.It should tell you something that there are threads that survive for even a week at a time now with how many people just fucking left.
>>733209453>redditors expect you to read any of this shit
>>733209453If someone ignores your retarded thread, it’s because it’s uninteresting. Reddit enacts retarded social justice equity bullshit to ensure they get the outcomes you want. Its not everyone else’s fault your thread sucks, at least it isn’t actively suppressed for wrong think.
>>733210110>Reddit enacts retarded social justice equity bullshit to ensure they get the outcomes you want.Well actually it's the Karma system which is just built in shadowbans.
>>733208502oh yeah all those right wing devs lmao yeah>>733208830There is nothing inherently anti-censorship or anti-surveillance within conservative thought, you are mistaking libertarian views as being mainstream within it, which they aren't
>>733210589You know barring the fact both of those things are literally always done to destroy the cultural fabric of a nation.You know, something that is definitionally not "conservative".And we're not pussy footing around with a definition of censorship that forces association under threat of state force since that's a different issue entirely.
>>733210589>There is nothing inherently anti-censorship within conservative thoughtCompared to modern liberals, they damn well are. Liberals are 100% on board with silencing dissent, banning other narratives, and making sure they approve of everything that reaches the public's ears. We saw this in excess during Covid. And what is cancel culture if not ultimately censorship? Meanwhile conservatives bought Twitter and unshackled it. If you really want to split hairs, you can cite Christian conservatives wanting to censor adult video games like Mortal Kombat and GTA, but that was a long time ago, and I don't think Christian values are going to ever exhibit powerful pull on media of that scope anytime soon. That'd be a pretty shocking swing back of the cultural pendulum.
>>733202482>this isn't normal Wait a second that dosen't sound right It almost sounds like a lefty pretending not to understand something>WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO CENSOR YOUThere it is
>>733203059of course I can believe it. this is in no way unusual for them.
>>733203162yes its 100% lack of control because gaben owns it all and he is too rich to be bought.going public opens up an attack vector.
>>733207816Nigger please.>just look away>they won't hurt you>infiltrated my literal pedophiles and drug addicts>gets you ousted and fired from your jobEither be open for all views and shit or be against any kind of views and shit. Moderation etc. cannot please everyone.
>>733209453Bro who the fuck wants to talk about videogames?
>>733209086>Reddit and 4chan are the sameWhich is very le ebin.
>>733202482Sorry bro the courts have ruled that discussion platforms are not responsible for their users content. You can thank Fagbook and Shitter for that.
