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I had a person tell me in game they hate black people, then left a comment on my profile referring to black people as black monkeys. I reported them. About five times. Steam does nothing. Their comment would be still up if I haven't removed it manually after one of many reports resulting in nothing. Their profile is full of proof of it being a long term continuous effort. Their account has a high level, which makes me think it may be why Steam seems to be protecting them. I reported people in the past and stuff was done about it. It's my first time dealing with blatant racism AND no moderation effort from Steam. I even ended up messaging steam support about my concerns and got a generic response which amounted to nothing.

I see people speaking up about poor moderation on other platforms, so I chose to speak up about Steam's as I'm really tired of this bullshit.

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[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're gonna protect their whales. It's like Facebook, I report outright calls to violence, doing, and hate speech all the time to be told it "doesn't violate TOS" but I make one comment that "hiding behind Christianity to justify your hate is bullshit" got me a hate speech ding on my account in under 5 minutes.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No idea how high their level is, but $20 and a handful of games is roughly what it takes to get an account to lvl 25 or so.

Do you mean putting $20 in your steam wallet? I know someone with 197 games whose only lvl 11.