this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
310 points (91.9% liked)

Games

16822 readers
1406 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

PCGamer really hates doing journalism mhm ? You have to figure out which link goes back to the actual article about the mentioned report, and then find which link directly goes to the report : https://www.adl.org/resources/report/steam-powered-hate-top-gaming-site-rife-extremism-antisemitism

The full report actually provides a lot more information and answers some legitimate questions, and other ignorant comments raised in here, there's an entire appendix about their method and how they fine tuned an ai model to review 150+ million profile pictures / 600+ million comments

There's also interesting info about the customization of Steam profile, which I don't remember Steam publicly sharing :

At the time of data collection, Steam Community had 458.32 million users. Of these, 418.4 million were public profiles and 39.68 million were private profiles (even if a profile was private, there was certain related information that was publicly available).

Many of Steam Community’s 458.32 million users have not customized their accounts extensively. Only 7.4% of public profiles have a summary, Steam Community’s equivalent of a social media bio. 41.8% of profiles use Steam community’s default profile picture, making it the most common avatar on Steam, present on 191.2 million profiles.

Most Steam Community users are also not particularly active. One proxy for activity is player level, which users can increase by activities such as buying games or collecting trading cards while playing games on Steam. Among the 91.69% of Steam Community users who publicize their level, the average level is 2.8 and the median level is 0.0 (the maximum level observed was 5,001). Our detections should be interpreted with this context in mind.

[–] PoTayToes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Thank you for linking this.

SHIT TONS of smurf accounts for games like Dota, CSGO, and other stuff that I'd often see with no profile customization. Would make sense if tons of accounts are side accounts

[–] A_Filthy_Weeaboo@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know the article addresses it but... What about X'ter? Head of Twatter now has an official government position while his shitty company allows Neo Nazi, hate, homophobic, and misogynist behavior runs rampant!

What a fucking farce...

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wow this push against Valve kind of popped up quickly and suddenly didn't it?

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 23 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Yes, people say mean things on the internet. That's never going away. Teach your children how to deal with it.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (13 children)

People need to understand that the internet is a public space. Family PCs should be in a shared space like the living room and kids need to have parental controls enabled on their smart phone. Beyond that, yeah people need to get thicker skins when it comes to social media (including steam in this).

load more comments (13 replies)
load more comments (12 replies)
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

On Jan. 3rd, this will switch to a Republican senator saying the same thing, but the "extremist content" will be "woke."

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Literally turning america entirely into an unsafe place then threatening others for it. Are they trying to do a government take over of a shiny appealing money maker? It sure seems like they actually want the nazis everywhere else, I bet if they actually do anything they will keep the nazis if they actually exist in the first place.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] ChaoticEntropy 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Steam discussion forums on every game are a complete dumpster fire. Someone needs to do better, whether it is Steam themselves or moderators.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unsafe? Like is the game going to stab them?

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a great place to create extremists, there is basically no moderation and people say some fucking awful shit on Steam forums. I think this is a long time coming, honestly.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just see people in the discussions forums talking about how to get all the achievements in Stellaris

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You definitely aren't looking very hard

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

If one has to look very hard to find it then it is not everywhere.

And that's tea.

load more comments (9 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

they go after my hobbies and i will turn into extremist

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah let's suggest these kids spending their time somewhere way safer like Matt Gaetz's mansion.

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Churches and other pedophile centers

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

If we're pitching microtransactions as extremist content, I'm on board.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

What has Valve done right?

  • Proton
  • Steam
  • Steam deck
  • Steam market (the place to sell underpriced skins for small amounts of money) What has Valve done wrong?
  • Loot boxes
  • Moderation (it is impossible)
  • Their anti-cheat (Swiss cheese of anti-cheats, >!EAC and BattlEye are better!<)

Overall, I prefer Valve and Steam over a Chinese holding firm that almost has the monopoly over the gaming industry and the company with a black logo that has a close-minded CEO and Sweeney'd to Tencent.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not exactly on steam much, what tf are they taking about?

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The steam social/discussion stuff is a cesspit of racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc., has been for quite a while.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well, yeah, it's a place where gamers are allowed to speak. That's what happens.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›