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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3dzvw/steam-is-full-nazi-racist-groups
What follows is a fairly detailed exploration of various groups that seem to be organized around racism and/or hate speech that are present on the Steam platform and even promoted as curators to other users.
It seems to be yet another example of why Valve and many other platforms for that matter need to hire moderators and curators of their own instead of relying on algorithms and the wisdom of the crowd.
To promote this feature and introduce Steam users to new curators they might enjoy, Steam now features six curators on the front page of its store. On Tuesday, Joe Parlock, editor-in-chief of games website Let's Play Video Games, posted a screenshot that showed Steam was featuring a Curator on its front page named "dank memes for faggots."
I've reached out to Valve asking how this Curator ended up on the front page of the Steam Store, but have not heard back.
That the largest digital video game store in the world and the platform that has largely come to define the way video games are played on PCs put a homophobic slur on its front page is obviously not a great look, but perhaps inevitable given the size of Steam's user base, the amount of content users can create on Steam, and Valve's notoriously hands-off approach when it comes to moderation.
What follows is a fairly detailed exploration of various groups that seem to be organized around racism and/or hate speech that are present on the Steam platform and even promoted as curators to other users.
It seems to be yet another example of why Valve and many other platforms for that matter need to hire moderators and curators of their own instead of relying on algorithms and the wisdom of the crowd.