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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yes, some are completely read only

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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.