Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

[Klassic]

Literally every workshop page sadly

[Vorontsov]

hello check out my new site staemcommunism.ru

[cashed]

 I tried to reduce as much spam as possible from my submissions, but its non-stop. Valve needs to really get things sorted out. It's not enjoyable to contribute when the system can be rigged and you just get endless spam.

Edited July 25, 2016 by cashed

[Squad]

The workshop manipulation issue is now on Reddit too.

And 3kliksphilip made a video about it as well.

 

[Harry Godden]

4 hours ago, cashed said:

 I tried to reduce as much spam as possible from my submissions, but its non-stop. Valve needs to really get things sorted out. It's not enjoyable to contribute when the system can be rigged and you just get endless spam.

I guess half of the issue is being dealt with, seeing as they are sending out the letters to the gambling sites telling them to seize their activity with steam, then the "Use my codes on this site for free coins" comments will stop.

Shutting down the gambling sites will probably also remove the whole csbets.net (when they send the notice to them) manipulation issue, since the the sites will be gone there will be no need to manipulate in order to gain advertisement.

But yeah they should also add some form of filter to the steam workshop, its not hard to make something that will spot the same link being posted over and over, in a short space of time. The workshop spam should have been dealt with loooong time ago though :\

[Guest]

I hope Valve pull their finger out and get to the bottom of the vote manipulation, and of course the spam on pages. Maybe ban persistent spammers from posting comments?

 

On a lighter note, does anyone miss player sprays from previous CS games?

[Bastion]

One thing that disturbs me is that in the 3kliksphillip video, he mentioned some of the map spammers do not even have hours in the sdk, the first thing that popped into my mind is that they're also stealing other people's maps to use in their workshop spamming.

[will2k]

2 hours ago, Squad said:

The workshop manipulation issue is now on Reddit too.

And 3kliksphilip made a video about it as well.

This is good but I doubt Valve will do anything about it. If they were serious or cared about the workshop, they would have immediately acted upon this issue on day one.

As I mentioned on my map's page, I also posted in the official CSGO group to draw the attention of Matt, Magnar and the other Valve guys but so far nothing.

It's really sad and frustrating to see your hard work getting massively downvoted in 100+ downvotes within a matter of minutes, and the map sliding into the back of the workshop, denying new people from even discovering the map and playing it. My map "Forlorn" was literally forlorn in less than 24 hrs on the workshop.

The hard truth is that as long Valve/steam are a monopoly, they can get away with anything without any real consequence on their bottom line

[leplubodeslapin]

10 hours ago, Klassic said:

Literally every workshop page sadly

Even if i haven't submitted a map for a while, i still have this frequently. It's insane.

I delete everyone of them, and then i block the steam users who spam stupid shit like this. I believe it's working, i used to have 10-15 of them per day (on old maps), now i barely have one every 2-3 days.

I don't want to speak to these guys anyway, so i don't mind banning them from interacting with me in any way.

Nice video from 3kliksphilip !

[Geno]

I have been reporting all the comment spammers (the ones posting ad links) on my map. I delete all such comments. And one such guy then commented on my profile "report me and ask your friends as well to report". They know nothing's gonna happen.

And even I got an offer for my map Bikinibottom, but I blocked the guy. I don't feel right about endorsing gambling sites.

Edit:- Something happened? My map now has 1 lesser downvote. The upvotes are constant. And also, all the maps with gambling ads are not featuring on the front page anymore.

Edited July 25, 2016 by GenoCide
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[DrywallDreams]

This is just a symptom of Valve's "fuck you, we're rich" community policy.  The only time they do shit is when they're in legal trouble over something.  People have literally used Steam curation to harass developers, they still haven't done anything about it.  You can literally report someone with a slur for a name, nothing will be done about it.  In this case, I can almost guarantee nothing will be done.  Steam's "community" is a shithole, so much so that even Valve gave up.

It's ridiculous how deep gambling made it into CS's culture before Valve "noticed" (lmao) it.  They literally sponsored events that Valve attended, yet only now do they notify them that they're going against the Steam Subscriber Agreement.  

[Sprony]

Steam is like the Wild West. Sure, there are rules but without anyone to actually enforce them, they mean nothing. It's a lawless place and a refuge for the scum of the world. Valve should hire me to bring order to the chaos because.....

[Vaya]

1 hour ago, Sprony said:

Steam is like the Wild West. Sure, there are rules but without anyone to actually enforce them, they mean nothing. It's a lawless place and a refuge for the scum of the world. Valve should hire me to bring order to the chaos because.....

that's what you think:

[blackdog]

What's happening is really really outraging… because of course us, the good citizens feel powerless. What's the alternative, is not like we are gonna build a CS clone that strips this shit…

I have a little bit of trust that Valve will fix this, although as its been pointed out, their priority is low because this milks money for them, more than an Operation I guess(?).

[Radix]

Big thanks @3kliksphilip once again

Edited July 27, 2016 by Radix