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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

It's like the pot calling the kettle black. The US Senate is nothing but an actual extremist content machine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, steam forums are a hot pile of garbage so the senator is correct in pointing that out at the very least

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He's an US senator, he's probably angry steam didn't yet banned all Russians, Chinese and muslims.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Apartheid Defense League has dropped a tactical "extremism" label. How do you respond?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Considering some of the community threads I've seen, they might actually have a point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What do I miss here? Steam is a game purchase platform and game running environment, how are they "normalizing hate and extremism in the gaming community"?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They provide a bunch of other services tied in, like the reviews, Workshop, and most infamous, guides and forums. While the reviews and Workshop tend to not be too bad (although still often not great) the forums and guides tend to be completely unmoderated and as a result, devolve into spam and extremism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

That must be why I have no idea what any of this is about. In the ~20 years I’ve used Steam, I almost never frequent the forums or use guides unless I have a game-stopping problem.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Today I learned ...

So I guess it was a good unintentional decision to not care about anything else except the games and the mods.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Steam is a game purchase platform and game running environment

You just left out part that it has extensive community features too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Community Forums

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Boomer Logic booming it up (edit: from +4 to -4 sus)

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago

cringe boomer take