I hate these stupid guides so much. They inevitably get up voted and clutter out the more useful guides.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2024
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Same with the stupid cat. Or here is how to bake a cake. Just shut the fuck up, it's not even original, just copy paste spam garbage
Unfortunately, the Steam community rewards this garbage. This spammer got shitload of Steam points by merely copy-and-pasting a "joke" guide.
What are Steam points?
Points you can use to buy cosmetic stuff to customise your profile from a points shop for games that are on steam or to buy awards which are just about as useless.
How about the ones that teach you "how to cheat" in [insert game here] by giving you uninstallation instructions? Or, some of them even go so far as to try making you do damage to your OS installation.
I'm sure that joke was funny for like, all of two weeks in 2008, but the Steam community guides have clearly not moved on to a new joke since, and it's... kind of sad? Surely people can make better gag guides than this, but I haven't seen an original one in ages. And it's not like this is even effective at hindering actual cheaters, either, as long as they know how to use Google. It's just lame and unfunny.
To be fair, following the guide on deleting system32 has dramatically improved my desktop. Granted, it was an automated part of the process of switching to Linux, but I don’t how that could be relevant.
I'm not against people trying to cheat and getting their OS fucked instead 🤷♂️
Why is this such a problem? Are you guys just... browsing guides looking for something interesting?
Honestly I'm finding the guides to be less useful over time. Between these spam guides and the guides that are nothing more than YouTube videos (which I could've just went to YouTube if I wanted that), I have to go through several pages of guides before I find one that actually contains the information I'm looking for. It's a bit annoying.
Have you tried pressing the report button? Idk if there's an explicit rule against it but maybe if these are reported often enough someone at Valve will begin to care. Kinda like how they eventually banned games using a new update or prize as their primary banner image and tagline on the store page.
Edit: If nothing else the one here is definitely dishonest in the category and language tags. That's probably grounds for removal.
I've reported hundreds of these stupid things because I use guides somewhat regularly. I think they've deleted like four? They do notify you when they take action, but it's incredibly uncommon.
I think they've deleted like four?
I mean.... That's more than 0. Thank you for your service.
I used to in the past but I don't believe there are any rules against it and I haven't seen any taken down.
Lying about category and language tags seems like decent justification for a report.
What's the problem? I agree it's stupid but they're also very easy to ignore. Doesn't seem like a good use of anyone's resources to police these
It's probably more about Steam lacking good ways to filter these things out.
You know, they added "funny" to their review upvote system, maybe they should do that for guides too. Then you can just omit them. :p
Valve doesn't bother when it comes to this sorta thing. If they can't automate it, and it requires a human, they won't do it.
This leads to much worse consequences - the CS2 and DOTA2 communities are toxic cesspools. These games which actively require good communication are filled with the most vile racist sexist everything-phobic people (and kids!) you've ever seen. It's the wild west of the Internet, like 4 Chan. It's been like this for years, and it will continue like this because handling that isn't something they can automate, and hiring people costs money...
This made me curious if blocking a user on Steam will also block their content on Steam. It'll block them across games that use Steam's multiplayer services and from friends, for sure, but I've never thought to look if it also hides their screenshots, reviews, workshop uploads, etc.
I like funny guides, but the copy paste ones get old fast
Just joined into this /c/ because I'm annoyed by this issue.
Steam now has a system for "helpfulness" on reviews, to help float the reviews that actually analyze a game's pros/cons. I wonder if they could take anything they learned there and apply them to guides. I'm now realizing that for live-service competitive games, there would theoretically be a lot to cover for newer players, but they're instead getting flooded with "How 2 win" meme-style posts.
I also kind of admit: Sometimes these are worth a laugh, and I'm unsure about a system that completely deletes them, but players should still be able to filter/sort when looking for guides that actually help them play.
I think I might be the only one who likes reading these for the lulz then