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This is developers who don't like criticism whining. Yes, there is some bigotry and such in the market, but it's not as big as they're making it sound.
These people want Steam to step into a role of world gaming police, even though Steam have provided the necessary tools for users on the platform to vote incorrect information down into oblivion. Going further than that is asking for censorship and is as effective as paid reviews.
If you can't cope with your product taking criticism, valid or otherwise, don't waste your time peddling what you've made. We've seen time and time again that games find their audience, even with BS 'criticisms'. Those who are interested will look further than the basic complaints. If there's only those complaints, maybe you just didn't make a very good game.
There’s a big difference between allowing people to comment and allowing people to be openly racist, sexist, and homophobic. Steam reviews, forums, and curator pages are absolutely full of the latter because of Valve’s hands-off ‘not my problem’ attitude, and it often goes hand in hand with doxxing and harassment campaigns.
Are they full, or is there a small subsection that has them and we're giving them undue attention? I rarely come across such things myself, though that's obviously anecdotal, I feel that at least means there's plenty of space that isn't dominated by what you speak of.
They are full. Are you joking or are you one of them? You can’t name a single game whose community page isn’t littered with nazis and/or incels