A new feature has been deployed where profile and group coments, and rforum eplies from people you have on your blocked list, are automatically hidden.

Form what I can acertain it is going to help people ignore the trolls that are after them (hell, it has even stopped me from comenting to them...and most of this group knows what I am like in that regard).

The best guess I have concerning profile comments involving "reports" is that using the flag will hide a comment of a person and then sort it to a list that makes it easier for moderators to see should the offending perosn be reported by the report functiuon on their profile. What is confirmable is that it will hide them for you if you use it.

This novelty can also be used at artwork, screenshots, workshop items etc.. At a review i checked i could even hide & report the comment of a developer of that game.
What is the use if i can hide & report Spoopy's comments on her own items but she can not hide & report mine? If i don't like Spoopy i just don't visit comments pages on her items. And it;s not like i can block the items themselves from seeing them in f.e. the workshop, i can only hide/report the comments. I think it's bugged.

So i don't view this as an addition to not see blocked accounts as it goes per individual comment not per account and/or per comment section. Furthermore, reporting never needed a report per individual comment, reporting 1 or 2 and adding a phrase about other unwanted/suspicious comments would suffice.

Likewise with reporting accounts. Last month i reported a string of 1800+ stolen and newly created accounts (+ website and youtube video) and yesterday a string of 75 to perhaps 200 stolen accounts (+ website and youtube video). I don't have to know the exact number. With some 20+ examples Valve Security can take care of them all. And such usually includes adding site-adress to the linkfilter as well as removing youtube video's of scammer/phishing sites. I do not even need to report at Youtube, Valve/Steam will take care of removal there.

Are they hidden completely as if they didn't exist, or are they just hidden in such a way that there's a line saying there's a hidden post that you can click to view?

It shows the section where the comment was given and an empty avatar section next to it, both outlined with small white dots. There is an option to undo for me as the one who reported but

• i don't know yet how this all is vissible for the owner of the screenshot in this case. I'll ask her.
  
• i don't know how this is vissible for any-one else. Please see for yourself and report back here for i want to know how this looks for other Ppl as well.
  https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1460645253&tscn=1533142003
  

Originally posted by Quint the Slacking Angel:

Are they hidden completely as if they didn't exist, or are they just hidden in such a way that there's a line saying there's a hidden post that you can click to view?

There is a line saying something about the user being blocked by you. You have the option to show the line and report it in the forums. Others have to report comments of a person on profiles and group comments and other places in the community. It's a good thing IMO.

This is how it looks for me with a report from myself before the owner reported:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1461809884

And now i described the issue to this friend, i can imagine this feature is suited toward parents/guardians who don't want their kids to see offensive comments.

Originally posted by Bumbefly Sony Test םו:

And now i described the issue to this friend, i can imagine this feature is suited toward parents/guardians who don't want their kids to see offensive comments.

Well yes and no. BFST, you know of the people I speak when I say "trolls". It helps people ignore anyone who harasses them and allows them to continue ignoring their comments.

Originally posted by The Spoopy Kitteh:

Originally posted by Bumbefly Sony Test םו:

And now i described the issue to this friend, i can imagine this feature is suited toward parents/guardians who don't want their kids to see offensive comments.

Well yes and no. BFST, you know of the people I speak when I say "trolls". It helps people ignore anyone who harasses them and allows them to continue ignoring their comments.

Yes, if you as owner could report and delte/hide with the same button. But why can visitors while the owner can only delete?

Originally posted by Bumbefly Sony Test םו:

Originally posted by The Spoopy Kitteh:

Well yes and no. BFST, you know of the people I speak when I say "trolls". It helps people ignore anyone who harasses them and allows them to continue ignoring their comments.

Yes, if you as owner could report and delte/hide with the same button. But why can visitors while the owner can only delete?

Probably to prevent frivolous reports that would clog the system. Like it was stated by Budozero on TGO's profile, it "reports" comments from people by moving the offending comments to a deprate list so that moderators do not have to sift through hundreds of comments to discover the route cause of an issue.

If just any visitor can flag then there will be more frivolous reports if you'ld ask me. What/who better to get right to the source then an owner?

The Beta update from today 9th of Aug 2018 : https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements/detail/1706188320692569744

The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General
Added support for shipping different binaries to 64bit vs 32bit operating systems in Steam self-updater. This support is being added in preparation for future updates.

[Edit] at this point everything still in my x86 directory (Windows)

The friend where i reported one comment doesn't understand what i ask about it so i still don't have an answer from her. But now we can ask TGO as i reported and hid some comments from his profile as well. Ppl who follow TGO's profile comments will realize who i am talking about. Especially Budozero, you can do the same in stead of leaving TGO's wall.

Remember, walls give protection (wallhacks don't apply here do they?).

Again, everything still in my x86 directory :

Steam Client Beta - August 13th, 2018
The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General
Windows users on 64bit operating systems now get a 64bit steamwebhelper.exe process

Should be starting with the DOTA tournament in 2 days,
see https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-launches-streaming-website-steamtv/