It was used for scammers to act like they were sending steam cash. Good ridiance to the /me command, if you want to roleplay (lol) do it another way.

Since you missed it somehow: http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/0/864956554551356679/

No way. Scammers were abusing stupid people with it. So go complain to the scammers.

Originally posted by Hashbrick:

It was used for scammers to act like they were sending steam cash. Good ridiance to the /me command, if you want to roleplay (lol) do it another way.

Then Valve should somehow warn people through Steam about scammers like that. We already have a pop-up on pressing the first link, why not make a first warning when someone adds you that you have no friend in common with?

People should be aware of scammers and Valve shouldn't just remove one thing that removes the colon after your name and makes your text colored.

EDIT: Besides, if you think this is the way to go to get rid of people being scammed, you might as well remove names and avatars.

They did what they needed to. Probebly as a temporary fix untill something else can be done.

They have been trying to tell people. but people jsut don't listen and still blame Steam for it. Removing the /me command is a good way to fix the issue.

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Removing the /me command is a good way to fix the issue.

I wouldn't really say it was a good way, but more of a cheap and easy way. Why not make a toggle/checkable box in the settings to turn it on and leave it off as default? Just another suggestion in the suggestions thread.

It was a little documented, almost hidden feature, known by few, used by little, and fairly prone to abuse. And it's removal causes no hamper to Steam chat functionality.

Following your logic, Valve should get rid too of the 'Never tell your password to anyone' message on the chat, since 'People should be aware of the scammers'

/Me is gone and is not going back. Go complain to the scammers who missused it, as it's their fault.

Originally posted by Tito Shivan:

It was a little documented, almost hidden feature, known by few, used by little, and fairly prone to abuse. And it's removal causes no hamper to Steam chat functionality.

Following your logic, Valve should get rid too of the 'Never tell your password to anyone' message on the chat, since 'People should be aware of the scammers'

/Me is gone and is not going back. Go complain to the scammers who missused it, as it's their fault.

Hidden feature? I know a lot of people who know this command. Even huge communities. Only new people to Steam will not know this command.

And I'm not saying in any way that the "never tell your password to anyone" message on the top of the chat log should be removed. I already got scammed and got my account hacked, long time ago, by one of these scammers and they weren't even using /me.

I realize account security is a very high priority for Valve and they have done a pretty great job on the Steam guard system, but I don't think removing one command that a lot of people know from Steam will help a lot in this situation. I already said in a previous post that it may be a good idea for a notification to pop up when someone who you have no friends in common adds you.

If you mean by a "lot" of people as 5% of the Steam population then yes a "lot" of people know the command. It's not documented and a lot of Steam veterans didn't even know it existed. The problem with the me command is the scammer went into a game used the /me, the text is now colored green and they made it look like a prompt Steam would make saying, x amount of steam wallet cash will be added after transaction completes. Then the idiot would give them whatever they were selling and logout. Getting rid of it stops that scam altogether. Anyone can see this is a good thing.

And that pop-up will get ignored.

The command was removed, and rightly so. It was being abused. Unfortunetly it only takes a few to ruin it for the many.

Originally posted by Hashbrick:

If you mean by a "lot" of people as 5% of the Steam population then yes a "lot" of people know the command. It's not documented and a lot of Steam veterans didn't even know it existed. The problem with the me command is the scammer went into a game used the /me, the text is now colored green and they made it look like a prompt Steam would make saying, x amount of steam wallet cash will be added after transaction completes. Then the idiot would give them whatever they were selling and logout. Getting rid of it stops that scam altogether. Anyone can see this is a good thing.

I don't see this as a good thing. It's just removing one thing and it is nothing informative. Read my previous posts. We need a notification for when being added by someone who you have no friends in common.

And I'm pretty sure more than 5% people on steam know the /me command.

Uh...This is a silly thing to remove when there are still a lot of bugs out there. That and this won't even do anything to the scammers. They'll just find another way it's not hard to scam stupid people and those people who did actually fall for the /me scam crap are idiots in general so they will probably keep falling for it again. I have no clue how you can even be scammed by that. It doesn't stop anything at all. It's a lie that rare few knew about it because EVERYONE I know knows about it. Even people who have only used steam for a few days and nobody told them. /me is a command used in a lot of programs to do with chat. Not just steam. The only way that I can see someone scamming you legitimatly with it is if you are new to the internet or some crap. Other wise you're an idiot for falling for such a thing since Valve employees are obvious to identify and how they even tell you not to give out your password to anyone.

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

And that pop-up will get ignored.

Then that's not Valve's problem. You ignore the obvious window warning you of something, that's your problem.

It's the harsh truth, sadly.

Originally posted by dirrtygsharp:

No way. Scammers were abusing stupid people with it. So go complain to the scammers.

If you legitimatly fall for this then you deserve to get scammed. Sorry. If people are this stupid then it will just keep happening until they learn.

Originally posted by The Anti-Fun Ran:

Uh...This is a silly thing to remove when there are still a lot of bugs out there. That and this won't even do anything to the scammers. They'll just find another way it's not hard to scam stupid people and those people who did actually fall for the /me scam crap are idiots in general so they will probably keep falling for it again. I have no clue how you can even be scammed by that. It doesn't stop anything at all. It's a lie that rare few knew about it because EVERYONE I know knows about it. Even people who have only used steam for a few days and nobody told them. /me is a command used in a lot of programs to do with chat. Not just steam. The only way that I can see someone scamming you legitimatly with it is if you are new to the internet or some crap. Other wise you're an idiot for falling for such a thing since Valve employees are obvious to identify and how they even tell you not to give out your password to anyone.

They're called line breaks and paragraphs. Look them up. Instead of spewing your rubbish, try to make a few points, back them up with facts or arguments, and then we can talk.

Vomiting in this thread only ensures your point (if you even had one) is lost or ignored.

Originally posted by The Anti-Fun Ran:

Originally posted by dirrtygsharp:

No way. Scammers were abusing stupid people with it. So go complain to the scammers.

If you legitimatly fall for this then you deserve to get scammed. Sorry. If people are this stupid then it will just keep happening until they learn.

Look, I'm all for letting people sink or swim...but Valve has a vested interest in helping protect their users from scammers. A direct cost would be the multiple support tickets and manhours involved in helping a noob get their hijacked account or scammed items back. An indirect cost is that a noob will be LESS likely to buy more games using Steam if they keep getting scammed.

Dropping /me isn't the ultimate solution to fighting scammers. However, it IS one more hurdle that scammers will have to hurtle.

If you are so addicted to /me, go fire up an IRC client.