I had a person tell me in game they hate black people, then left a comment on my profile referring to black people as black monkeys. I reported them. About five times. Steam does nothing. Their comment would be still up if I haven’t removed it manually after one of many reports resulting in nothing. Their profile is full of proof of it being a long term continuous effort. Their account has a high level, which makes me think it may be why Steam seems to be protecting them. I reported people in the past and stuff was done about it. It’s my first time dealing with blatant racism AND no moderation effort from Steam. I even ended up messaging steam support about my concerns and got a generic response which amounted to nothing.
I see people speaking up about poor moderation on other platforms, so I chose to speak up about Steam’s as I’m really tired of this bullshit.
Privileged? Wtf? More like been on the internet long enough to not let much bother me.
It’s a dilemma, if you give them the attention they continue. If you don’t appeal to authority they also will continue.
I will agree that Valve should stand behind their terms of service though. I just never see it as much of a community because I am only their to buy and play games.
If this was happening on my servers, my linux group, or my makerspace they would be out on their ass so fast…