Yeah moderation is in crisis right now.

Tell your bro to contact Steam Support and complain about the ban. Steam Support is not much better than Steam mods but some of them are reasonable and will overturn that absurd ban.

Your brother should probably not call people idiots. It's as simple as that. Adjust behaviour and move on. Don't get stuck.

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

Your brother should probably not call people idiots. It's as simple as that. Adjust behaviour and move on. Don't get stuck.

If the shoe fits wear it. I agree with the brother.

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

Your brother should probably not call people idiots.

So your brother calls other people idiots and you both are surprised that he gets a ban?

Originally posted by Hariho:

I cannot wait for an alternative to launch. Would love to jump off this platform as soon as the opportunity arises.

There are already a few alternatives. GoG, Itch.io, EA App, Ubisoft Connect, Epic Game Store.
You should go to Epic their Forum and mods are great you will love it.

You gotta really be sly in how you talk. So we all know support is "farmed out" and they have a whack bias. I won't be direct about why, but become a linguistic terror, use troll poetry and figurative language.

You can't be direct.

Originally posted by Sammy M.F Bananas:

You gotta really be sly in how you talk. So we all know support is "farmed out" and they have a whack bias. I won't be direct about why, but become a linguistic terror, use troll poetry and figurative language.

You can't be direct.

marked as wholesome

Originally posted by Hariho:

Been seeing a lot of posts about these mods and for the first time ever I finally get it.

My brother got a 9 week ban for saying: "People are idiots for purchasing early access games then complaining when they get ripped off".

These guys have no business being mods if they read the word "idiot” and immediately ban someone.

20 years of service and it has become extremely obvious to me and many many others that the quality of community management has plummeted. Obvious outsourcing has occurred.

I cannot wait for an alternative to launch. Would love to jump off this platform as soon as the opportunity arises.

1: You don't get 9 weeks for your first ban.
2: Using the word idiot to describe people is an actual insult.
3: Moderators are doing what they are supposed too. Moderate the forum and when someone insults people the user get punished for it. Plain and simple.

It's not always an insult. An idiot is someone who only cares about private matters. That's not necessarily an insult if you only make that observation about someone's behaviour. You can for example say to someone: "you act like an idiot," when that someone acts as such from your viewpoint. For instance, when someone is fiddling with an object and has not received any help or training as to how to use it, while normally they would.
It's not a "bad word," and someone may take no offense in it when it's used appropriately.

Yeah that sounds like a game forum and game devs can ban for whatever reason they like. It’s best to stick to steam discussions and stay away from game forums entirely.

People are idiots for purchasing games on early access and complaining they have been ripped off.

Originally posted by Shreddy:

Yeah that sounds like a game forum and game devs can ban for whatever reason they like. It’s best to stick to steam discussions and stay away from game forums entirely.

People are idiots for purchasing games on early access and complaining they have been ripped off.

Nope. It's Steam moderators, not devs.

9 week ban across ALL steam communities even reviews.

This place is a joke.

Originally posted by Hariho:

Originally posted by Shreddy:

Yeah that sounds like a game forum and game devs can ban for whatever reason they like. It’s best to stick to steam discussions and stay away from game forums entirely.

People are idiots for purchasing games on early access and complaining they have been ripped off.

Nope. It's Steam moderators, not devs.

9 week ban across ALL steam communities even reviews.

This place is a joke.

That's a community ban, so there's gotta be more to the story than just this.

If Steam mods are giving a community ban, then your brother has a pretty bad history with moderation. If it was given automatically, then he's been banned from multiple game hubs in a short period of time.

Something doesn't add up with your story

No one is getting a 9 week ban for saying that.

You're not telling us the whole story or maybe your brother isn't telling you the whole story. Either way, what you're claiming just doesn't happen for a single incident, or even likely multiple non-severe incidents.

People need to ask themselves if what they're about to post is actually productive or not before doing so. Posting on the Steam community is a privilege and people are expected to maintain a level of civility when doing so.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6862-8119-C23E-EA7B

Maybe it's not the word "idiot" they had a problem with?
Perhaps they wanted to tell you that nobody has been "ripped off." Because that's a serious accusation. Considering those people received what they paid for, namely, a game that was not yet finished, and they weren't "ripped off." At least, not according to the definition of the word, because it just says that on the store page that it wasn't complete. And suggesting that they were "ripped off" is not correct.

Who's to say they didn't ban you for using the word "ripped off" instead?
I wonder what would've happened if your brother typed: "...they have the feeling they were ripped off," instead.
Because then you do not turn it into an accusation by claiming they've been ripped off, instead you refer to their feelings of being ripped off, without claming it as an actual fact that they've been ripped off, because they weren't.

It could very well be that it was an insult. I wasn't there. I haven't seen what he responded to, and if the people who were called idiots were actually there?
If he was responding to a discussion made by someone giving feedback about the game, it might very well have been taken as an insult, because such a person is trying to help by giving feedback.. And telling him or her that he or she acts as an idiot for doing that, smuthers any discussion you could be having about the game.