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The true beauty behind Valve's "hands-off" approach to moderating group chats [CW: Racism]
(crazypeople.online)
This CHUD has spent the whole weekend spamming this in the official Steam Deck group chat. Utter cesspit.
I have reported them several times, as I'm sure others have. The fact that you can see the spam continuing unabated is the clearest possible evidence of how prevalent Valve's moderation is in these chats.
The tool exists, but without the will to use it, the result is what we're seeing now.
So basically this guy started up late sunday and was still not banned by monday morning during a period that also had a massive tech fire across the industry with the cloudflare outage. Generally I found people were banned at most places within 24 hours so by this evening. I mean that is sorta a worse case timing example so im not sure im going to get all upset at lack of moderation quite yet. Honestly im not even sure if folks were banned in chats I have been in before as I only hear it second hand since I block shit I don't want to see. I usually can tell from other folks reaction to it in the chat.
A ban might eventually happen, but that misses the point. This started on Friday last week, it's been five days of this. Relying on a slow, reactive ban system after a racist spammer has already poisoned a chat for nearly a week is the failure.
Basic moderation is about maintaining a standard to prevent this. A ban now would just be cleaning up a mess that never should have been allowed to happen in the first place.
The situation is clear, and my position is too. I won't be debating this further