Valve's new steam policy.

[Funyarinpa]

16 hours ago, sanahtlig said:

And again, the problem here is that any rigorous policy that tries to enforce moral principles and political correctness in fiction will end up excluding a large swath of content I happen to enjoy.  Cheesecake?  Offensive and demeaning to women.  Lolis?  Get that pedobait off here.  Inappropriate religious symbolism?  You're disrespecting someone's faith.

We have this culture of outrage and it's really tiresome.  I feel like the correct response to blatant trolling is to just ignore it.  It's attention-seeking behavior.  If you give them attention, they win.  Attempts to root them out will result in collateral damage that justifies their cause and rallies support for them.

That's the thing. Racism and sexism, even in the form of shitty asset flip games, isn't harmless trolling you can just ignore. They cultivate a culture that cares more about glorifying works (games) that gloat about needlessly offending people, to say the very fucking least. 

And I'm not calling for censoring fucking everything. And no, it doesn't have to be a slippery slope. Valve just needs to take a stance to say that bigotry is not welcome on their platform. That's not too much to ask. And that doesn't endanger your cheesecake. 

What I'm talking about isn't censorship. It's called deplatforming. 

Hate speech and bigotry adds nothing. Even if it'll just "extremize them even more" or something, not allowing bigotry in the public sphere keeps bigotry from becoming normalized. You know what happens when you handwave bigotry by calling it trolling? Racists who say racial slurs on stream have an audience with millions of impressionable children. 

And if your takeaway from that situation is to protect your lolis on Steam above all else, I don't have anything else to say. 

Edited June 11, 2018 by Funyarinpa

[TexasDice]

I don't know what you guys are doing with the steam store, but I have never been forced to look at or buy a shitty game. When I buy a shitty game on steam, it's because I typed it's name into the search bar.

[solidbatman]

I wish I could run a company, makes lots of money, and not do a damn thing to improve it because I have a (somewhat tenuous now) monopoly.

[sanahtlig]

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And again, the problem here is that any rigorous policy that tries to enforce moral principles and political correctness in fiction will end up excluding a large swath of content I happen to enjoy.  Cheesecake?  Offensive and demeaning to women.  Lolis?  Get that pedobait off here.  Inappropriate religious symbolism?  You're disrespecting someone's faith.

On 6/11/2018 at 8:20 AM, Funyarinpa said:

And I'm not calling for censoring fucking everything. And no, it doesn't have to be a slippery slope. Valve just needs to take a stance to say that bigotry is not welcome on their platform. That's not too much to ask. And that doesn't endanger your cheesecake.

I'll just leave this here.

 

Edited June 14, 2018 by sanahtlig