I hate these stupid guides so much. They inevitably get up voted and clutter out the more useful guides.
Same with the stupid cat. Or here is how to bake a cake. Just shut the fuck up, it’s not even original, just copy paste spam garbage
Unfortunately, the Steam community rewards this garbage. This spammer got shitload of Steam points by merely copy-and-pasting a “joke” guide.
What are Steam points?
Points you can use to buy cosmetic stuff to customise your profile from a points shop for games that are on steam or to buy awards which are just about as useless.
Honestly I’m finding the guides to be less useful over time. Between these spam guides and the guides that are nothing more than YouTube videos (which I could’ve just went to YouTube if I wanted that), I have to go through several pages of guides before I find one that actually contains the information I’m looking for. It’s a bit annoying.
Have you tried pressing the report button? Idk if there’s an explicit rule against it but maybe if these are reported often enough someone at Valve will begin to care. Kinda like how they eventually banned games using a new update or prize as their primary banner image and tagline on the store page.
Edit: If nothing else the one here is definitely dishonest in the category and language tags. That’s probably grounds for removal.
I used to in the past but I don’t believe there are any rules against it and I haven’t seen any taken down.
Lying about category and language tags seems like decent justification for a report.
What’s the problem? I agree it’s stupid but they’re also very easy to ignore. Doesn’t seem like a good use of anyone’s resources to police these
It’s probably more about Steam lacking good ways to filter these things out.
You know, they added “funny” to their review upvote system, maybe they should do that for guides too. Then you can just omit them. :p
Valve doesn’t bother when it comes to this sorta thing. If they can’t automate it, and it requires a human, they won’t do it.
This leads to much worse consequences - the CS2 and DOTA2 communities are toxic cesspools. These games which actively require good communication are filled with the most vile racist sexist everything-phobic people (and kids!) you’ve ever seen. It’s the wild west of the Internet, like 4 Chan. It’s been like this for years, and it will continue like this because handling that isn’t something they can automate, and hiring people costs money…deleted by creator
It’s like a certain type of content pollution.
I like funny guides, but the copy paste ones get old fast
This made me curious if blocking a user on Steam will also block their content on Steam. It’ll block them across games that use Steam’s multiplayer services and from friends, for sure, but I’ve never thought to look if it also hides their screenshots, reviews, workshop uploads, etc.
I think I might be the only one who likes reading these for the lulz then
