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 3 weeks 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.

[–] paddirn 9 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

Steam is a game purchase platform and game running environment

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

[–] 9tr6gyp3 5 points 3 weeks ago

Community Forums

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago

cringe boomer take