Valve is about to start out moderating feedback throughout Steam’s game hubs. In a weblog publish launched final night time, the corporate introduced that its moderation workforce “will start reviewing reported discussion posts in all game hubs on Steam.”
Valve factors out that the moderation workforce has already been reviewing reported content material throughout a lot of Steam. That contains consumer opinions, screenshots, and posts in neighborhood teams, and motion has been taken towards these discovered to be in breach of the platform’s tips. Valve says, nonetheless, that till now it’s been “hesitant to get involved in the moderation of individual game discussions.”
As the blog post factors out although, “we’ve been hearing from more and more game developers that would actually prefer for us to take a more active role in discussion boards, at least to the extent of handling posts that are reported by other players.” If devs wish to deal with their very own neighborhood, they’ll choose out of Valve’s system, however for now, any studies can be added to a queue to be checked out by the moderation workforce.
Valve does say it gained’t be “actively perusing” feedback, but it surely’s an attention-grabbing step nonetheless, from an organization which has commented on its lack of need to average Steam previously. Earlier this yr, the corporate stated that it’ll permit any game on its platform so long as it’s not “illegal, or straight up trolling.”
Elsewhere, nonetheless, the corporate has been extra vigilant in policing a few of its fringe communities, deleting several hate groups from the platform again in March. The new moderation system will start, with an expanded workforce behind it, on September 25.
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