Thread 717966628

The science has determined that due to lax moderation Steam is a breeding ground for dangerous extremist ideologies.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1586566/full

Only policy interventions can save us from extremism.

>Valve rarely comments on its content moderation practices and, when it has, it has historically defended a light approach to content moderation (Valve Corporation, 2018). This has led to significant backlash and criticism from developers and targeted users, who have argued that Steam is becoming a sanctuary for bad actors.
publishers/devs deploy their own forum janitors and have done so for eons. how many threads do we have here daily because somebody was forum banned for shouting gamer words and how many people were banned from ass creed origin forums for posting WE.

what?

not science lol

>>717966628 (OP)
Why do they give a shit? If they want to discuss games without "chuds" ruining their fun, why don't they go to discord or reddit? Every single game on the planet has either a discord or a subreddit which are more left-leaning.

>>717966628 (OP)
The funny thing is that they don't realize it's ALL fake. Like, literally, ALL disingenuous. It's ALL clown farmers EVERYWHERE they just want CLOWN AWARDS FOR POSTING THE MOST INANE SHIT and it's getting pegged as chud extremism

>>717968534
this lol

>>717968534
Yeah awards ruined steam forums for me. It is literally impossible for me to take anything seriously or get baited on there now because I just think they're trying to farm clowns.

>>717966628 (OP)
This "study" is bunk. Theres 8 billion people out there, 6 billion with net access and has 25 milllion steam users. Apparently they are worried about groups that comprise less than 5 million users. You need 20% of a countries population, both low and upper class individuals to cause societal change. Yet they are worried of what appears to be less than 1% of population in most respective countries. They are worried about 'extremeist' ideoloy forming in this gaming social network. What a load of hogwash. Nah this is a bunk study that governments, competitors will try to use to censor crap because people are not buying enough double-plus-good, hypnotic, cybernetic, slave, button mashers.

>>717968710
they aren't truly worried or interested bro
it's part of the hustle in academia
you gotta write shit like that so you can feed yourself
it's not genuine intellectual curiosity and exploration
yes it's a clown world

If you are so afraid of extremism, then track down the extremists, take them to a desert in bumfuck nowhere Nevada, and chop their bodies until they are sub atomic and spread them thin.

>>717966628 (OP)
>>717968534
>out-of-touch faggots can't realize VALVe enabled bad trolling years ago and think it's some end-times horseshit
I can't wait for boomers to fucking die.

>"Stop killing children"
is being extremist according to them.

>>717966628 (OP)
Oh no, not the science, by the experts. My apologies, I will send all my money to Israel and supportive Collective Shout.

>>717968354
They just want to get politicians and public institutions involved through moral panics so that they could get further taxpayer paid grants for more extremism research.

>>717966628 (OP)
>game forum
>faggots can't talk about games
>faggots have to scream about real world politics
Sounds like /v/.

look up rachel kowert's other articles if you want to go down a rabbit hole of idiocy, personally i'd rather spare myself for now

These, "extremists". Are they in the thread with us.

>ecofascist group with 170 members and a large overlap with other groups
>meanwhile the anime tiddies or Girl und Panzer group has like 10k
Truly worrying

>>717969620
The thing is, if you put in the effort, you can make any discussion page or Steam group as left wing as possible so that xirs can do what they want. Look at Space Station 14's discussion page.

>>717966628 (OP)
when you see greentexting in steam forums you know it was already fucking over,you dumbasses cant keep anything in their proper place

>>717972390
I'm a bit surprised no mainstream outlet or activist group has discovered and highlighted the lolifags that flock to gacha and games with little girls on Steam yet. They really love screaming I AM A PEDOPHILE AND THIS IS A PEDOPHILE GAME FOR PEDOPHILES LIKE ME in the Steam discussions and reviews. Even if it is "ironic pedophilia" for memes and gatekeeping purposes, the nornamfags are going to see it as Steam harboring genuine pedophiles, and conservative boomers are going to throw a fit in alliance with feminist SJWs.

>>717972905
>the nornamfags are going to see it as Steam harboring genuine pedophiles, and conservative boomers are going to throw a fit in alliance with feminist SJWs.
that's exactly what they want, it's exactly the kind of all-encompassing blissfully stupid drama they live for and can play victim over

>>717974893
White Supremacy has a games platform? Wheres the download?

What these leftoids and conservative groups don't realize that gamers when pushed to the brink are far more dangerous than your average incel school shooter.

>>717966628 (OP)
>extremist
is this what they call wrongthink now?
anyway, everyone knows mainstream media is just a propaganda platform for corpos and the government

>>717966703
>This performative infighting inclues extensive use of neo-fascist imagery, promotion of antisemitic content, and frequent slurs, insults, harassment, and other toxic behaviors
>we argue that such performative infighting provides an extremist milieu with an increased marketing reach, resilience to moderation, and the ability to more clearly define in-groups and out-groups
no real human being could write something like this to describe playing pretend for fun
imagine if a parent hanged his toddler by the neck for daring to play a pirate and telling another kid to "walk the plank landlubber" or something like that.
what kind of detached mentally deranged drone would write a (((study))) villifying interactions with other people like this? who's even financing this?

>>717974893
jej

>>717974893
What did they mean this?

>>717968710
>tfw there were just over 2 million users in 2012
Thems were the good times.

>>717966628 (OP)
Having to interact with Russians and Chinese "people" on Steam turned me into a mega-racist

>>717966628 (OP)
>Women and Payment Processors go out of their way to destroy everything men enjoy for seemingly no reason
>Suddenly for no reason at all extremist ideologies against them appear on Steam
How could this happen?

>>717976061
Stop noticing the patterns bro.

>>717975505
You wont do shit

>>717966628 (OP)
I don't create it, I just exemplify it.