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Post by Hook on Mar 8, 2018 19:48:03 GMT -6
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Post by Jigoku on Mar 8, 2018 19:56:32 GMT -6
I'm on Steam and I'm glad I never saw that crap... D:
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Post by Hook on Mar 8, 2018 19:59:09 GMT -6
I have always had a bad feeling about Steam. Maybe that was why. Never touched that place.
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Post by Jigoku on Mar 8, 2018 20:05:20 GMT -6
I've never really liked Steam even though I still use it, mainly cause I have to if I want to play certain games like Garry's Mod and other Steam exclusives.
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Post by Lotica on Jun 29, 2018 18:55:46 GMT -6
I know this is old, but I felt that as a person who has been on Steam for close to ten years, I needed to say this.
I have my fair share of issues with Steam, such as the quality control and the cluttered design of the site and client, but the problems that the article addressed could be applied to any social site these days. Besides, look at the number of members on those first three groups the article shows. Notice something? Not a lot of people are on them, because, of course, NO ONE sane wants their profile plastered with Nazi imagery for that long unless they're an edgy 15-year-old who just discovered 4chan for the first time.
This is coming from a guy who switched his profile on Steam to "act" as Donald Trump, and of course, I had people that probably were akin to the person who wrote that article and thought I was a Nazi. No joke. I had a person call me a Nazi because of me wearing a profile picture of Donald Trump and saying in my profile that I was from Arkansas. Yeah, that's logical.
Just take things like this with a grain of salt. It has always been like this. It's just things such as social media have made it more apparent that it's happening. Trust me.
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Post by MajorTom on Jun 29, 2018 19:00:22 GMT -6
Most of that is just dumb kids trying to be edgy. Besides, this is Huffington Post-- not exactly a paragon of reliable news. All I see are a click-bait title, a few cherry-picked images, and a text wall just long enough for most people to not read peppered with fear-mongering language and the author's own personal agenda. The top image doesn't even have any context; there's nothing mentioning the search terms they used, what page they're on, or the fact that only a handful of people are in any of the three groups in a pic that could easily be stitched together in MSPaint. The second image is a screencap of an actual neo-Nazi dude's profile, but since most people will just skim the article, they may not see that and assume that's how everyone on Steam is.
They say "HuffPost identified thousands of accounts and user groups on Steam in which users claim to be Nazis, defend school shooters, and spout racist and violent bile" yet the only "proof" of any of it is the a screencap of three such groups.
FWIW, I tried all three of the search terms they list at the bottom of the article (and various other forms of them) and didn't find any of those types of groups (unless they're buried farther down than a few pages, in which case you'd basically have to be looking for them anyway).
Facebook and Reddit are far worse than Steam. Any social media platform is going to have its share of legit neo-Nazis and racists among a much more vast population of trolls and edgy idiots, among an even more vast population of normal, average people. The HuffPost article basically said just that. But those final two words-- "Should it?"-- make you forget all about that part. That just tells me that the author has some kind of agenda against Steam, or gamers, or who-knows-what.
I usually don't get worked up over this kind of stuff but I'm so sick of seeing this junk spread.
/rant
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