Oprindeligt skrevet af MikiTheBerserkr:

Recently in a comment I used a name of a website that's used to sell 18+ content,

Oprindeligt skrevet af Amaterasu:

So you basically violated the Community guidelines, several times... and are surprised you got moderated and are now calling it censorship?

Oprindeligt skrevet af MikiTheBerserkr:

Censorship on steam

I find it quite annoying how steam will ban you for weird reasons and then just refer you to community guidelines, which don't explain the ban at all and refuse any further explanation.

Recently in a comment I used a name of a website that's used to sell 18+ content, commonly referred to with a shortcut "OF". I wasn't advertising anything, I wasn't posting any links, I just said the word.
My account got locked within a few minutes, a bunch of unrelated comments and posts got deleted.
Steam support's response? They claim I was "promoting external commercial services", and warned me not to do that again. However you can say the names of other commercial services, like youtube or ebay, and it won't happen.

One time I named a certain squre (located in china) and a certain date. This is frowned upon by the chinese government, but I didn't think any company outside of china would be listening to the chinese authorities, helping them with their propaganda efforts... I was wrong, steam support banned me...

Another time I made a thread about a pvp gamemode, and some dude came just to say how pvp is bad, and pve is superior, so I replied to him that some people are not noobs, and need a challenge which they can't have against brainless, predictable opponents (AI)... And I got banned for abuse.
Can't even respond to someone who came to talk ♥♥♥♥ in your own thread. Insane.

Oprindeligt skrevet af MikiTheBerserkr:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Amaterasu:

So you basically violated the Community guidelines, several times... and are surprised you got moderated and are now calling it censorship?

Nice ragebait. Too bad I am not falling for it.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't talk about the Square incident, period. This has nothing to do with anything on Steam.

Oprindeligt skrevet af Tito Shivan:

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't talk about the Square incident, period. This has nothing to do with anything on Steam.

Besides, 99.99% of the time that square is mentioned it's to troll.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Oprindeligt skrevet af MikiTheBerserkr:

Censorship on steam

I find it quite annoying how steam will ban you for weird reasons and then just refer you to community guidelines, which don't explain the ban at all and refuse any further explanation.

Recently in a comment I used a name of a website that's used to sell 18+ content, commonly referred to with a shortcut "OF". I wasn't advertising anything, I wasn't posting any links, I just said the word.
My account got locked within a few minutes, a bunch of unrelated comments and posts got deleted.
Steam support's response? They claim I was "promoting external commercial services", and warned me not to do that again. However you can say the names of other commercial services, like youtube or ebay, and it won't happen.

One time I named a certain squre (located in china) and a certain date. This is frowned upon by the chinese government, but I didn't think any company outside of china would be listening to the chinese authorities, helping them with their propaganda efforts... I was wrong, steam support banned me...

Another time I made a thread about a pvp gamemode, and some dude came just to say how pvp is bad, and pve is superior, so I replied to him that some people are not noobs, and need a challenge which they can't have against brainless, predictable opponents (AI)... And I got banned for abuse.
Can't even respond to someone who came to talk ♥♥♥♥ in your own thread. Insane.

Don't talk about adult sites on a platform for ages 13+.

Don't talk about the Square incident, period. This has nothing to do with anything on Steam. China does not dictate what is or is not allowed on the global client/forums nor do they impose anything on what is or is not allowed to be said here.

Do not call people names, like brainless.

:nkCool:

Oprindeligt skrevet af William Shakesman:

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't talk about adult sites on a platform for ages 13+.

Don't talk about the Square incident, period. This has nothing to do with anything on Steam. China does not dictate what is or is not allowed on the global client/forums nor do they impose anything on what is or is not allowed to be said here.

Do not call people names, like brainless.

Given that entire unpleasantness was a foreign intelligence operation, I have some sympathy for the Chinese being so prickly about it. But I also have some sympathy the other side as well.

The politics rule was removed though so there ought to be no rule specifically forbidding it.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't talk about adult sites on a platform for ages 13+.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't talk about the Square incident, period. This has nothing to do with anything on Steam.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Do not call people names, like brainless.

Oprindeligt skrevet af William Shakesman:

Valve takes a dim view of trash talk or any other sort of frank and direct discourse. It is a peculiar cultural choice and definitely a mismatch for the customer base of a site selling video games, whose culture quite obviously does not match such restrictions, but if one treats it as a game with its own rules to learn you can adapt the Steam preferred discourse with not too much trouble. Annoying to be sure but not insurmountable.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

It has nothing to do with Steam at all. It is also only used to incite arguments which is against the rules.

Oprindeligt skrevet af MikiTheBerserkr:

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't talk about adult sites on a platform for ages 13+.

Rules don't mention that. Steam sells adult games. So locking an account and mass deleting unrelated comments is an insane reaction to this.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't talk about the Square incident, period. This has nothing to do with anything on Steam.

This was related to the post I posted in.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Do not call people names, like brainless.

I clearly called AI brainless, because it literally is. Do you know what AI is? It's the thing you play against in PVE modes, as opposed to PVP when you play against real people with brains. I would guess steam support's reading comprehension is just as good as yours, except they refused to unban me, even after I pointed out to them, what my post meant.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Oprindeligt skrevet af William Shakesman:

Given that entire unpleasantness was a foreign intelligence operation, I have some sympathy for the Chinese being so prickly about it. But I also have some sympathy the other side as well.

The politics rule was removed though so there ought to be no rule specifically forbidding it.

It has nothing to do with Steam at all. It is also only used to incite arguments which is against the rules.

Valve tried to give the Chinese their own language sub-forum and China blocked the Steam Community back right after PUBG went 1.0, which meant the sub-forum was removed only days after it was added.

:nkCool:

Oprindeligt skrevet af MikiTheBerserkr:

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't talk about adult sites on a platform for ages 13+.

Rules don't mention that. Steam sells adult games. So locking an account and mass deleting unrelated comments is an insane reaction to this.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't talk about the Square incident, period. This has nothing to do with anything on Steam.

This was related to the post I posted in.

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Do not call people names, like brainless.

I clearly called AI brainless, because it literally is. Do you know what AI is? It's the thing you play against in PVE modes, as opposed to PVP when you play against real people with brains. I would guess steam support's reading comprehension is just as good as yours, except they refused to unban me, even after I pointed out to them, what my post meant.