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Valve tweak Steam Community Awards to deal with point farming and "attention-grabbing content" (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Along with an entirely new set of awards you can give out across Steam the changes should stop all the clown farming on reviews, guides, forum posts and more.

You've probably seen guides and forum posts that are just pure silly bait on Steam, as it has become a bit of a problem since people expected to get a bunch of clown awards โ€” and they did, it was everywhere. This should hopefully now be a thing of the past. In the Steam announcement Valve mentioned that Steam Awards no longer transfer points over, and they've retired the old awards in favour of a completely new set.

Now it's purely about showing appreciation, with all the awards costing the same amount of Steam Points too.

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[โ€“] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Glad to see it. So many discussions that were just anti woke spam or add lgbt flag bait posts.