• @Yokozuna
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    224 minutes ago

    If anyone read the report about the hate comments, you would know that they consider Pepe to fall into this category and was the OVERWHELMING majority of the percentage of what they refer to as hate speech… and it is just a frog. Pepe was 1st in percentage while swastikas were 2nd at 9% - just to give you an idea. Also steam has over a billion users, over a hundred million active users and if you crunch the numbers, it is less than a percent of accounts posting this thing of material. I’m not saying racist shit on steam isn’t a problem, but they’re blowing it up way out of its actual scope.

  • xep
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    82 hours ago

    We can start with larger, much more influential social media platforms. How about Twitter?

  • @BananaTrifleViolin
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    Politicians would be better focusing on things that matter like how the Democrats lost the election to Trump and how they’re going to win the midterms.

    A crappy paper finding rude words and phrases on steam is not really worthy of anyone’s attention but Valve’s

    “Millions” of examples sounds dramatic until you look at how many billions of exchanges have been made in valves forums and comment pages. It needs addressing but it’s not of international or even national importance.

    Instead of virtue signalling, Warren should be asking how the Dems managed to allow Biden a free ride through the primaries, held on til the bitter end blocking alternatives and then endorsing Harris blocking any debate.

    I’d rather Warren focus on fixing the Democratic Party. A bit of democracy in the Democrat party would be a start.

    • Aatube
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      52 hours ago

      It’s a shame we can only work on one thing at a time

    • @[email protected]
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      174 hours ago

      Just a quick correction, this is Mark Warner, not Elizabeth Warren. Otherwise I agree with you though.

  • @PunchingWood
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    55 hours ago

    Feels like the Steam community groups and discussions are so massive that it’s going to be an impossible job to start managing it now, unless they just nuke the entire thing and start over.

    • @ampersandrew
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      52 hours ago

      It got noticeably worse in the summer of last year. I have no idea what actually changed around then, but that was the first time the Steam forums were so toxic that it may not have been worth asking your question.

      • HeadfullofSoup
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        61 hour ago

        Steam forum have been massively toxic for years my brother-in-law work for a company that do moderation for steam and it’s mostly extreme racist shit mix with some Pedo shit they would need 10 000 more staff just to start getting the upper hand

          • HeadfullofSoup
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            359 minutes ago

            They do but it’s a bad paying job with heavy mental health tax for the worker so not a lot of people want to do it.

            At this point they should just close the forum ( finding game info is pretty easy anyway ) or maybe try use AI to do a part of it

            • Rhynoplaz
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              141 minutes ago

              What’s it pay? Give me a ban hammer and one week, and I’ll get rid of them Nazis for you!