Why would anyone want to use a public steam group anyway. Not defending this turd but if you can’t self-filter unmoderated spaces it’s best to just stay out of them, it’s not sustainable for every last corner of the internet to be actively and aggressively moderated in real time.
This line of reasoning consistently defends the offender by blaming the users for expecting a baseline of civility.
The choice isn’t between a ‘lawless wasteland’ and 'aggressive real-time moderation. It’s about whether an official platform should have basic, automated filters against the most blatant hate speech - the same way most games filter the worst slurs from usernames or in-game chat.
Arguing that it’s ‘unsustainable’ to stop racial slurs from flooding an official group chat is just arguing for the right to be a bigot without consequence. What I was ‘expecting’ is for Valve to implement the bare minimum of community management on their own official platforms. The fact that this is seen as an unreasonable ask is the entire problem.
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Why would anyone want to use a public steam group anyway. Not defending this turd but if you can’t self-filter unmoderated spaces it’s best to just stay out of them, it’s not sustainable for every last corner of the internet to be actively and aggressively moderated in real time.
I’m not sure what you were expecting either way
This line of reasoning consistently defends the offender by blaming the users for expecting a baseline of civility.
The choice isn’t between a ‘lawless wasteland’ and 'aggressive real-time moderation. It’s about whether an official platform should have basic, automated filters against the most blatant hate speech - the same way most games filter the worst slurs from usernames or in-game chat.
Arguing that it’s ‘unsustainable’ to stop racial slurs from flooding an official group chat is just arguing for the right to be a bigot without consequence. What I was ‘expecting’ is for Valve to implement the bare minimum of community management on their own official platforms. The fact that this is seen as an unreasonable ask is the entire problem.