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+0Valve Explains How It Decides Who's a 'Straight Up Troll' Publishing Video Games On Steam (vice.com) null/SLASHDOT/0102640946 70\r
+i Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (BeauHD)\r
+i from the behind-the-scenes dept.\r
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+i An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard:\r
+i Wednesday, Valve, the company that operates the huge online\r
+i video game store Steam, shared more details about how it plans\r
+i to control and moderate the ever-increasing number of games\r
+i published on its platform. In the post published Wednesday,\r
+i Valve shared more details about how it determines what it\r
+i considers "outright trolling." "It is vague and we'll tell you\r
+i why," Valve wrote. "You're a denizen of the internet so you\r
+i know that trolls come in all forms. On Steam, some are simply\r
+i trying to rile people up with something we call 'a game shaped\r
+i object' (ie: a crudely made piece of software that technically\r
+i and just barely passes our bar as a functioning video game but\r
+i isn't what 99.9% of folks would say is "good.") Valve goes on\r
+i to explain that some trolls are trying to scam folks out of\r
+i their Steam inventory items (digital items that can be traded\r
+i for real money), while others are trying to generate a small\r
+i amount of money through a variety of schemes that have to do\r
+i with how developers use keys to unlock Steam games, while\r
+i others are trying to "incite and sow discord." "Trolls are\r
+i figuring out new ways to be loathsome as we write this," Valve\r
+i said. "But the thing these folks have in common is that they\r
+i aren't actually interested in good faith efforts to make and\r
+i sell games to you or anyone. When a developer's motives aren't\r
+i that, they're probably a troll." One interesting observation\r
+i Valve shares in the blog post is that it rarely bans\r
+i individual games from Steam, and more often bans developers\r
+i and/or publishers entirely. [...] Valve said that its review\r
+i process for determining that something may be a "troll game"\r
+i is a "deep assessment" that involves investigating who the\r
+i developer is, what they've done in the past, their behavior on\r
+i Steam as a developer, as a customer, their banking\r
+i information, developers they associate with, and more.\r
+i\r