You can do that here: https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences#CommunityContentPreferences

Like the Community Content Preferences that allow you to add words to always filter?
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Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

You can do that here: https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences#CommunityContentPreferences

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Like the Community Content Preferences that allow you to add words to always filter?
https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences

Does that actually automatically remove comments containing those words on your profile? Because I'm pretty sure it doesn't, and that's what OP is asking for. Censoring the words =/= removing the comments automatically.

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

You can do that here: https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences#CommunityContentPreferences

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Like the Community Content Preferences that allow you to add words to always filter?
https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences

Does that actually automatically remove comments containing those words on your profile? Because I'm pretty sure it doesn't, and that's what OP is asking for. Censoring the words =/= removing the comments automatically.

There's a serious problem around here of people not actually reading the threads before replying to them, or just outright not understanding what a suggestion is asking for. Of course, not to say that's a revelation, it's pretty known at this point too.

You can already block people. Not sure if creating a bubble is a healthy, and it also leads to the question of why you have so many people you need to block if you need an automatic block feature?

Not to be confrontational but shielding yourself from words only grant them more power over you.

Originally posted by Cantspel:

You can already block people. Not sure if creating a bubble is a healthy, and it also leads to the question of why you have so many people you need to block if you need an automatic block feature?

Not to be confrontational but shielding yourself from words only grant them more power over you.

This feature could be used for more than just creating a "bubble," so I disagree. If it existed, I certainly would make use of it to stop people from trying to solicit trades or inventory purchasing from me. I would find it pretty useful for that reason alone.

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

Originally posted by Cantspel:

You can already block people. Not sure if creating a bubble is a healthy, and it also leads to the question of why you have so many people you need to block if you need an automatic block feature?

Not to be confrontational but shielding yourself from words only grant them more power over you.

This feature could be used for more than just creating a "bubble," so I disagree. If it existed, I certainly would make use of it to stop people from trying to solicit trades or inventory purchasing from me. I would find it pretty useful for that reason alone.

This sounds more like an issue with the trading system itself then. I would support a feature to hide your inventory (I think there is already?) and a toggle to block trades. If people keep asking you after that then it's technically spam, and it's likely not just you they are messaging so report them.

Originally posted by Cantspel:

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

This feature could be used for more than just creating a "bubble," so I disagree. If it existed, I certainly would make use of it to stop people from trying to solicit trades or inventory purchasing from me. I would find it pretty useful for that reason alone.

This sounds more like an issue with the trading system itself then. I would support a feature to hide your inventory (I think there is already?) and a toggle to block trades. If people keep asking you after that then it's technically spam, and it's likely not just you they are messaging so report them.

I just don't think I should have to hide my inventory just because people want to interact with the trading feature. And it is not necessarily spam to solicit trades either (as long as you aren't trying to do real money trading which of course is against the ToS/guidelines).

Either way the suggestion would make self-curating your profile and your community interactions easier. Disagreeing just because you think someone is suggesting it because of their fee-fees, is a little silly and presumptive imo, and regardless you can already protect your fee-fees by blocking people manually, so it doesn't really make a difference.

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

Originally posted by Cantspel:

This sounds more like an issue with the trading system itself then. I would support a feature to hide your inventory (I think there is already?) and a toggle to block trades. If people keep asking you after that then it's technically spam, and it's likely not just you they are messaging so report them.

I just don't think I should have to hide my inventory just because people want to interact with the trading feature. And it is not necessarily spam to solicit trades either (as long as you aren't trying to do real money trading which of course is against the ToS/guidelines).

Either way the suggestion would make self-curating your profile and your community interactions easier. Disagreeing just because you think someone is suggesting it because of their fee-fees, is a little silly and presumptive imo, and regardless you can already protect your fee-fees by blocking people manually, so it doesn't really make a difference.

So you just want to be able to block trading but not hide inventory, I think a toggle button could work for that. Messaging multiple people rapidly unprompted for trades is spam by definition. It is likely automated via bots and should be reported.

Asking for a sledgehammer to nail in a finish nail is excessive, and leads to unintended issues. Unless of course the unintended issues is the point which is dishonest and leads to enshittification. If people are harassing you then you should report them. To need an automated feature to block comments makes me think the problem isn't entirely the fault of the people posting on the profile.

Originally posted by Cantspel:

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

I just don't think I should have to hide my inventory just because people want to interact with the trading feature. And it is not necessarily spam to solicit trades either (as long as you aren't trying to do real money trading which of course is against the ToS/guidelines).

Either way the suggestion would make self-curating your profile and your community interactions easier. Disagreeing just because you think someone is suggesting it because of their fee-fees, is a little silly and presumptive imo, and regardless you can already protect your fee-fees by blocking people manually, so it doesn't really make a difference.

So you just want to be able to block trading but not hide inventory, I think a toggle button could work for that. Messaging multiple people rapidly unprompted for trades is spam by definition. It is likely automated via bots and should be reported.

Asking for a sledgehammer to nail in a finish nail is excessive, and leads to unintended issues. Unless of course the unintended issues is the point which is dishonest and leads to enshittification. If people are harassing you then you should report them. To need an automated feature to block comments makes me think the problem isn't entirely the fault of the people posting on the profile.

Yes, I agree that when it comes to people who are automating their solicitation, that is spam. Not going to argue otherwise. But that isn't always the case, sometimes people just do so manually, especially if they're looking for a particular item you own (and it's easy to find the profile of someone who owns particular items through third party tools). That is generally not what I would call spam, and either way I'm not going to go through the trouble of investigating someone's profile and their activity on other people's profiles to confirm that. Putting aside that is extremely difficult to do on my end anyway.

Someone commenting to ask if I would like to trade also does not equate to harassment either, so there is no need for me to report them unless they're repeatedly spamming those comments on my profile and won't stop. And because it is not inherently against the rules, it's also not likely to result in action against their account either, again unless they are actually genuinely spamming (and doing so across multiple profiles).

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

Yes, I agree that when it comes to people who are automating their solicitation, that is spam. Not going to argue otherwise. But that isn't always the case, sometimes people just do so manually, especially if they're looking for a particular item you own (and it's easy to find the profile of someone who owns particular items through third party tools). That is generally not what I would call spam, and either way I'm not going to go through the trouble of investigating someone's profile and their activity on other people's profiles to confirm that. Putting aside that is extremely difficult to do on my end anyway.

Someone commenting to ask if I would like to trade also does not equate to harassment either, so there is no need for me to report them unless they're repeatedly spamming those comments on my profile and won't stop. And because it is not inherently against the rules, it's also not likely to result in action against their account either, again unless they are actually genuinely spamming (and doing so across multiple profiles).

Out of curiosity how often are people asking you for trades? What you are saying is reasonable, but I can't help but feel there is an easier way to block people from asking trades. Perhaps an option to hide yourself from the inventory API so people can't search you on 3rd party sites for items to trade, while still being able to show off your inventory to people who look at your profile. I'd imagine that alone would fix 99% of random trade requests.

Originally posted by Cantspel:

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

Yes, I agree that when it comes to people who are automating their solicitation, that is spam. Not going to argue otherwise. But that isn't always the case, sometimes people just do so manually, especially if they're looking for a particular item you own (and it's easy to find the profile of someone who owns particular items through third party tools). That is generally not what I would call spam, and either way I'm not going to go through the trouble of investigating someone's profile and their activity on other people's profiles to confirm that. Putting aside that is extremely difficult to do on my end anyway.

Someone commenting to ask if I would like to trade also does not equate to harassment either, so there is no need for me to report them unless they're repeatedly spamming those comments on my profile and won't stop. And because it is not inherently against the rules, it's also not likely to result in action against their account either, again unless they are actually genuinely spamming (and doing so across multiple profiles).

Out of curiosity how often are people asking you for trades? What you are saying is reasonable, but I can't help but feel there is an easier way to block people from asking trades. Perhaps an option to hide yourself from the inventory API so people can't search you on 3rd party sites for items to trade, while still being able to show off your inventory to people who look at your profile. I'd imagine that alone would fix 99% of random trade requests.

Not as often anymore, but that's mainly because I made my profile comments friends only a while ago. And doing so was specifically because of people soliciting for trades despite my info box stating I was no longer interested in trading. And sure, if there was a way to hide your inventory from 3rd party sites, I wouldn't be opposed to that option either. But again I see no issue with a feature to allow you to self-curate your profile comments more easily one way or another. There are more reasons to do that besides creating an echo chamber or because certain words bother you.

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

Not as often anymore, but that's mainly because I made my profile comments friends only a while ago. And doing so was specifically because of people soliciting for trades despite my info box stating I was no longer interested in trading. And sure, if there was a way to hide your inventory from 3rd party sites, I wouldn't be opposed to that option either. But again I see no issue with a feature to allow you to self-curate your profile comments more easily one way or another. There are more reasons to do that besides creating an echo chamber or because certain words bother you.

It just feels excessive to me as we already have methods to self-curate profiles with friends only and deleting comments. An automation feature even if can be used for other reasons (non which come to mind at the moment) will undoubtedly be used to create echo chambers.

One can argue that it's not steams responsibility to worry about such things, and I'll concede to that point. However in a meta sense it will only lead to complications down the road.

Automatically blocking individual comments based on a word list sounds like a great way to force people commenting on your profile to pull out a thesaurus, but not a great way to accomplish anything else.

Originally posted by Cantspel:

Originally posted by peppermint hollows:

Not as often anymore, but that's mainly because I made my profile comments friends only a while ago. And doing so was specifically because of people soliciting for trades despite my info box stating I was no longer interested in trading. And sure, if there was a way to hide your inventory from 3rd party sites, I wouldn't be opposed to that option either. But again I see no issue with a feature to allow you to self-curate your profile comments more easily one way or another. There are more reasons to do that besides creating an echo chamber or because certain words bother you.

It just feels excessive to me as we already have methods to self-curate profiles with friends only and deleting comments. An automation feature even if can be used for other reasons (non which come to mind at the moment) will undoubtedly be used to create echo chambers.

One can argue that it's not steams responsibility to worry about such things, and I'll concede to that point. However in a meta sense it will only lead to complications down the road.

What kind of complications do you foresee?