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TIL you can follow only 100 developers and curators combined (feddit.org)
submitted 20 hours ago by Kissaki@feddit.org to c/steam@lemmy.ml
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Why is a developer or publisher follow a curator follow? And why is there a limit of only 100? This is stupid.

Now I unfollowed some curators without any curations, but now I have to notice that unfollows their developer homepage.

On My Curators you can see who you follow.

To check the developer homepage, you have to Curator logo link -> About -> View Group -> Associated Game -> developer homepage. Easy. Very obvious.

How many "curators" do you follow? How empty is that "my curators" list for you?

So, what do I do now? Unfollow some devs and curators I want to follow?

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[–] Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I only know of the limit on how many curators you can ignore, which is also capped at 100, and I've been at that limit for a very long time.

I think over time Steam has pushed curators less and less, so now I rarely see this basically useless feature. Or maybe Augmented Steam has an option to block/hide them in general, and I just don't remember.

For some reason Steam Hardware is set as a curator, which I followed after the announcement of the Controller, Frame and Machine. Since I don't use this anyway, I just unfollowed, and now the list is empty again.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

In the past, I've hit a block limit in an online game I played for a long time. Pretty stupid when you can't block toxic people anymore. Removing very old blocks was possible, but not very convenient. It also kinda defeats the purpose of blocking.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Overwatch (1, the real first game) let you block only up to 5 or 7 people or so. Not only that, the block lasted only 1 week or so and will be lifted automatically. The idea is, that you block only in very specific cases where you don't like the person or they don't like you for whatever reason, but still follow the rules. And sometimes people change after they had a bad day and should get a second chance (I noticed that with other players and its true). Because if the person is constantly toxic or does not follow any other rules, the person should be removed from match making and be reported instead just blocking. This helps everyone, not just you. And it makes match making search and find better matches, because there are less blocked people.

That was in Overwatch 1 back then, no idea how its handled now.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Overwatch had "avoid as teammate" as well as blocking. Are you sure you're thinking of blocking and not avoiding?

Avoid had a low limit. I don't remember such a thing for blocking.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

You are right. I think blocking had a limit, but I don't remember details anymore. Edit: The Avoid as Team Member-functionality was added later, presumably because lot of players asked to have a bigger block list. I remember vaguely about such discussions back then.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Following Curators makes sense to cap, because that is more complex algorithm than just listing news. The Curator recommendations is an algorithm. But, I don't understand why developers and publisher count in the same limit. Maybe Steam wants you to think about what you follow, so that each follow has a meaning (for their algorithm and for you). I mean regardless of any artificial limit, this is true anyway, so you are advised to limit yourself if there is none.

I do follow 44 in total. And weirdly 4 Curators have empty pages now, plus 1 publisher page which I unfollow now (plus 1 Steam Hardware that is empty too, why doesn't it list all Steam Hardware at least?). I assume they deleted all entries, but no idea why that happened. Maybe they migrated to the Steam News page https://store.steampowered.com/news/ , as those Curators with empty page are mostly news outlets: The Verge, Ars Techinca News, Game Informer Magazine, IndieGames. But that is not the same, because their recommendations will not appear anymore.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Following Curators makes sense to cap, because that is more complex algorithm than just listing news

Do you have a reason to say this?

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 hours ago

Yes.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"What do I do now?"

Go outside

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

Unfortunately running away from problems won't solve them.

[–] Edges@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I've never enjoyed the feature so I think my list is empty.

Do you really find it that useful? And curators you'd recommend?

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 2 points 19 hours ago

I only follow a very small set of curators. Most of my follows seem to be developers and stuff.

I stumbled upon Sentinels of the Store, which hosts a few curators that seem useful. Like pointing out [reason for] review bombing, paid positive reviews, pointing out charity donation style, etc. There are more curators like that that are mainly about information rather than "reviews".

Scrolling through "My Curators", it seems to me like Steam Groups are also in there? Maybe if they set up a curator? Otherwise, it must have been a long time ago that I followed them. Possible.

I also see 100% Free Games, Peaceful Adventures and Stories, and maybe there are a few (very few) where I found reviews consistently valuable. It's not exactly easy to assess them from this list…

I was surprised and confused about how I reached 100. If 50 are from my groups I joined and maybe 10 actual curators I followed and 40 are followed developers and publishers, that seems plausible to me.