I've seen whole threads in game forums dedicated to Nazism, and I myself have been called a "groomer" and the t-slur because people knew be as a boy before I transitioned. Legitimately horrible place, they absolutely need to take more action against this.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Sorry to hear about your experience. Are the forums moderated at all? All I see is people being terrible to each other. I also saw someone requesting a Brazilian Portuguese translation for a game and people calling them a fucking idiot and telling them to learn english.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's up to each game dev to police their forums, AFAIK.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Can they disable their steam forums if they don't want to moderate them?

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

That's a good question. I would hope so!

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yes, some are completely read only

[–] Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online 2 points 2 days ago

There's almost no moderation on Steam at all. Sometimes threads advocating violence get removed, or threads with a lot of hate get locked but it's almost always long after the damage has been done and often times the ones doing nasty shit don't end up getting banned.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I don't use steam forums. But I have questions. Do the steam forums have any moderation at all? Is there a report button? Can you report comments or forum threads?

I want to know because I feel like a lot of social media has the same problem as steam forums and these tools exist on the majority of those. They rely on the moderation of fellow users.

I also question whether or not steam actually has an automod or anything like that. Or human moderators.

Please keep in mind that I don't use the forums so I really have no idea. This is the first time I'm hearing about this, and I'm interested in knowing more.