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Valve tweak Steam Community Awards to deal with point farming and "attention-grabbing content" (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/steam@programming.dev
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Along with an entirely new set of awards you can give out across Steam the changes should stop all the clown farming on reviews, guides, forum posts and more.

You've probably seen guides and forum posts that are just pure silly bait on Steam, as it has become a bit of a problem since people expected to get a bunch of clown awards — and they did, it was everywhere. This should hopefully now be a thing of the past. In the Steam announcement Valve mentioned that Steam Awards no longer transfer points over, and they've retired the old awards in favour of a completely new set.

Now it's purely about showing appreciation, with all the awards costing the same amount of Steam Points too.

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[+] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Make new account to scam people -> farm points through ragebait -> buy cosmetics to seem more legit -> scam more effectively. Legit accounts don't need the points as they usually drown in them anyways like you said

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    • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Glad to see it. So many discussions that were just anti woke spam or add lgbt flag bait posts.

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    [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I just disregard these 'awards' and whatnot. they don't mean anything anyways. in just gonna play what I wanna play regardless of what everyone thinks

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    This update is more important because before this, the awards granted the recipient steam points that they could trade for cosmetics to have even have a more legit looking account to try to scam people with. So the awards gave points and there was a clown award -> trolls post ragebait, often in the form of queer hate or fake queer demands, to farm clown awards for points. The hope is, that now that the recipients don't get points anymore, the troll farming stops at least in part.

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