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posted by martyb on Wednesday June 17 2020, @06:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the Valve-Implementing-New-Steam-Comment-Moderation-Bot dept.

The folks over at at TechRaptor bring us word (recently updated) that Valve Implementing New Steam Comment Moderation Bot:

Steam's forums are an enjoyable place to be when you are discussing the latest happening in the gaming world. It is common to run into internet trolls and the likes, but there is nothing like keeping up with the spam comments giving people unsafe links to click through. Some of those links directed to Counter Strike: Global Offensive skin trading and gambling sites, and other non-safe places where they ask you for sensitive and personal information.

Recently, Steam users went to Reddit to report a new message that appeared to them for a few seconds whenever they comment in forum threads. Not only that, it apparently shows for users as well who are posting reviews of their recently played games.

Reportedly, the following message normally only shows for a few seconds before your comment gets approved, which means the comment moderation bot is only looking for links or any harmful content.

"This comment is awaiting analysis by our automated content check system. It will be temporarily hidden until we verify that it does not contain harmful content (e.g. links to websites that attempt to steal information)."

Valve later got back to TechRaptor with the following message:

Yes, we are scanning the forums and hiding posts that contain links to malicious sites attempting to steal user’s Steam information. We are always looking for ways to improve with new updates, fixes, and features.

Apolitical? Check. Narrowly-scoped? Check. No ideological argument or stretching of the definition of "harm" necessary? Check. Botting like a boss, guys.

[Belated Note: SoylentNews does not use automated moderation. We stick you poor folks with the work instead. --TMB]


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  • (Score: 2) by Kalas on Thursday June 18 2020, @08:09PM (1 child)

    by Kalas (4247) on Thursday June 18 2020, @08:09PM (#1009703)

    Look at reviews for SCP: Secret Laboratory to get an idea what I mean.

    Oh God why did I do that? I love the hell out of the SCP Foundation but almost every review I skimmed is about as far as possible from the quality of comments I'm accustomed to on the actual wiki.
    It's a real shame because the concept sounds great but I can't stand to play with loudmouthed dumbass kids. Maybe if they put any price other than free on it they could've filtered out most of the annoying children.

    scaM 35.5 hrs
    POSTED: JUNE 18
    very scp kill yes game enjoy play

    I wish I could hate you to death, scaM.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday June 18 2020, @08:38PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday June 18 2020, @08:38PM (#1009716) Journal

    Steam's reviews were actually useful once upon a time. Now, it's almost better to just look at the videos and give it your best guess, for yourself. As opposed to trying to find decent reviews on the game.

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