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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Valve could easily fix it by making game discussions default to owners only, but they've always been a shitty company so they dont bother

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If they would, no one could ask anything pre purchase.

    But I also don't like the forum in there because of the bad atmosphere. Also I don't know whether it is because of a special group or because the general communication style in games is toxic, dumb, aggressive and egoistical as fuck... Like in almost every ingame chat.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Why not both? One section for owners, one for pre-purchasers (maybe it has to be in their wishlist?)

    It would give owners a clean space, allow pre-purchasers to ask questions, but rob trolls of attention (which is the most important thing).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Every discussion board has several categories by default General/bugs/events/trading Simply moving the default category or locking it massively decreases trolling and appropriate category use. The main problem with discussion trolling is that valve never deals with the rampant spam bots or people who continually post egregious material. I've seen bots last years posting update edits on every large game news post. The only way to fix it is to lock it to game owners/account age/community engagement. But valve will never do this unless it negatively affects their image because their leadership have become deluded weirdos (exempting art lead and gabe newell)

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