GenXGamer wrote on Jun 25, 2024, 13:24:
I posted and shared this article on the War Thunder steam forurm.
came back the next day, the post was gone.
So i posted it again with the comment that my previous post disappeared and I don't know why. I wrote it off as a steam forum bug.
A minute later it was gone.
then I asked why are my posts disappearing when I referred to this article?
I then get banned for "contesting a moderator".
contesting what?
That article I think ruffled the feathers of those Gaijin moderators.
I appealed to steam after a steam moderator then gave me a global ban. For a ban by a developer who even steam support said makes their own rules.
It is crazy that Gaijin acts like they own the forums in steam and valve turns a blind eye to that. Its valve's platform and yet they are ok to let Gaijin make up thier own rules punishments to a user that affects them on all of steams community.
In short, that article hits the nail on the head.
Gaijin and Valve both benefit from the predatory tactics discussed in this article and they tried to silently hide my posts. And when I called them out for disregarding thier own rules to silence something they didn't 'like' they banned me.
It's my understanding that individual devs/publishers do in fact "own" comment sections for their games on Steam and have free reign to moderate them as they please. This has been a point of contention with gamers for years as inconvenient posts get deleted by diligent publishers trying to manage their PR. Of course Steam is going to side with the publishers against individual customers. They make a lot more money from them than they do from you. I suggest you try
Reddit.
And yes, Gaijin is the poster child for predatory tactics in gaming. They were among the first to add gambling mechanics, and their game is among the worst in regards to forcing the player to spend money on the game if they want to make any reasonable progress.
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