Steam Discussions people-watching

[ben]

This kind of thread keeps getting made on every forum and I don't know if it's out of malice or out of naivety:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/ ... 425679464/

No, the moderators will not give you an itemized list of everything you can get banned for and then allow you to do anything that's not on the list no questions asked.

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Also, people keep suggesting this one and it's gotta be naivety because it's a laughably bad attempt if it is malice:

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/ ... 424913184/

No, the store cannot conjure $5 bills out of thin air for you to pay people with for free. You need to provide those yourself.

[ben]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/ ... 428410131/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/ ... 616374129/

Two separate threads from people who are furious that the term "Boomer Shooter" could refer to something people like. One goes so far as to recommend that Steam change the name of the tag to new old School Shooter, which, uh...

[ben]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/ ... 862628841/

Steam forum users discover the concept of "art". This upsets them greatly.

[ben]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/ ... 869033250/

Steam forum users are furious that when they buy a copy of a game they don't suddenly own the company that made the game.

[ben]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/disc ... 657770614/

The recurring refrain of "I was banned for not using cheats" as if that's supposed to convince anyone.

[ben]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/ ... 029009816/

"Steam's marketing department is personally assaulting me by putting games that are top sellers in my discovery queue despite the fact that I have blocked the tag "Top Seller" which zero games on the entire store are tagged with."

[ben]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/ ... 030959053/

"Steam should automatically delete my games at random because I want it to work more like a Microsoft product."

[ben]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/ ... 570072899/

Workshop items can only become unavailable for two reasons:

• The author (AKA copyright owner) deleted their own workshop item.
• The game developer banned the workshop item for violating rules.

So this thread is basically saying "Valve should break international copyright law so I can manage my mods easier".

[ben]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/ ... 824736643/

"Here is my idea for a foolproof anti-cheat: give me the ability to cheat at will and have my bullets automatically ban anyone I kill or don't kill with them for cheating."

[ben]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/ ... 826597163/

"Valve should incentivize people to abuse this feature by giving them money when they do!"