Yes, Valve is taking the wrong stand here. They are censoring pro-Ukrainian content on Steam based on "no-politics" rules, while allowing russian propaganda, Z symbols and descriptions about Ukrainians being an inferior race. This has no place on such a platform and I am ashamed to have spent so much money there. It definitely ends now.
Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
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Re: Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
#12What's with all these fresh accounts going "Hmmm, yes, I think this is very true, I agree 100%"? Is this an attempt to manufacture controversy? On topic, though, Steam's community moderators are not paid by Valve, they are volunteers elected from active users of the community. Active users of the community tend to be terrible moderators, so I can absolutely see a Russian nationalist sneaking in and abusing his power.…
It was posted on reddit, that's why me and many others got redirected to this page.
Re: Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
#13What's with all these fresh accounts going "Hmmm, yes, I think this is very true, I agree 100%"? Is this an attempt to manufacture controversy? On topic, though, Steam's community moderators are not paid by Valve, they are volunteers elected from active users of the community. Active users of the community tend to be terrible moderators, so I can absolutely see a Russian nationalist sneaking in and abusing his power.…
(source if you want)
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/does_valve_...
Re: Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
#14Early on in the war, I wondered why Valve didn't completely block russian users - no one was interested in listening. I'm disappointed in Valve.
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#15I can't facepalm enough on the subject. At high risk of getting palm blisters.
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#16Yes, Valve is taking the wrong stand here. They are censoring pro-Ukrainian content on Steam based on "no-politics" rules, while allowing russian propaganda, Z symbols and descriptions about Ukrainians being an inferior race. This has no place on such a platform and I am ashamed to have spent so much money there. It definitely ends now.
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Re: Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
#17While I strongly disagree with Valve’s stance here, Hacker News isn’t meant to be used like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/does_valve_...
> Post this on hackernews. … It will almost certain cause a stir. I've even seen people that have disappeared into googles customer service black hole get a response due to posting here.
Fair enough, but:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/does_valve_...
> Don't forget folks, go sign in and vote it up.
Content is supposed to receive organic upvotes because it’s legitimately intriguing, not because a group of people got together and decided to upvote it. Organized voting detracts from the legitimacy of the content and leads HN readers to expend more of their effort questioning the content rather than the issue you’re trying to raise.
Even if you’re raising a legitimate point, combined with all the new accounts commenting, that’s likely to get the post flagged into oblivion.
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#18Valve needs some attention on this. I would like to see a run ban
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#19how do you effectively ban a region these days? Won't those users just utilize a vpn they likely already have? I mean preventing purchase of new content using the Ruble makes sense. But I am not sure you could ban users from logging in to steam really.
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