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Me, in a ticket to Steam Support:
"Hello, I think the Steam client should hide all content from a user you block, such as reviews, which aren't hidden, rather than just some of it, like forum posts and review replies, which are hidden." (Paraphrasing there, because what I put in the actual ticket was somewhat more elaborate.)
Steam Support, copy/pasted exact words:
"I'd be glad to provide information about this.
"Please note that once you've blocked a user, they can no longer communicate with you using the Steam Chat.
"But you will still see the User Generated Contents that they have made."
(Kind of shocked that they didn't start with "I understand..." like they typically do.)
Me, to myself (and, now, here on Dreamwidth), because I'm not going to bother escalating this on Steam itself:
"No shit, Sherlock, I already know that. That's why I'm making a support ticket about it in the first place, you dim bulb.
"Also, besides, what you said there is not even a true statement, because as I pointed out in my support ticket to which you are responding, some 'User Generated Contents,' such as forum posts and replies to reviews and the like, are hidden from view. Reviews aren't, however, which is what I think is the problem and is why I opened the ticket."
Also Steam Support, exact words (the remainder of the reply):
"We value feedback from the Steam community. If you wish to share an opinion, suggestion, or idea with the community as well, please visit the Suggestions/Ideas section of the Steam Discussion forums.
"This forum is regularly read by Valve's development team.
Steam Support
<name redacted>"
Me, to myself, because it was such a waste of time to contact Steam Support in the first place, as it always is:
"Implying that Valve devs don't 'regularly read' (or ever see) support tickets? Probably because tech support drones like you were hired for the express purpose of filtering support tickets so that actual Valve devs don't have to pay attention to them? If anything, Valve devs should pay more attention to the Steam Support tickets than to the goddamned forum, considering how many hoops one has to jump through just to be able to even fucking create a support ticket to begin with.
"Also, if I wanted to post to the fucking public suggestion forum that everyone in the world can see, rather than creating a (presumably) private support ticket that everyone in the world (presumably) can't see, I would have done that in the first place, you fucking dipshit, especially considering it's invariably the same damn thing you drones always, invariably, say to do, after giving a similarly worthless, banal, braindead reply to every other Steam Support ticket I've ever created. I'd rather get a single worthless, banal, braindead reply from a single tech support drone than dozens of worthless, banal, braindead replies from fucking randos on the forums. Because I peeked into the 'suggestions' forum and very rarely, if ever, does a Valve dev reply, compared to random assholes derailing the thread or arguing about moronic dumbshit or making ad hominem attacks against the thread's OP or what-the-fuck-ever, even for the rare few actually good suggestions made there.
"Really, what is even the point of Steam Support at all? Not sure why I keep bothering to try to contact them about shit like this, as if the result is ever going to be anything other than me ending up writing a pissy-ranty Dreamwidth post about it."
Just to note, horseshit like this is what I'm tired of seeing. Honestly, I'd rather see the single word "reviews" or the "Here is a cat, pet it and give it thumbs up to make yourself feel better about yourself" ASCII "art" "reviews" or the "Nobody reads reviews so I will write that I am gay" "reviews" or any of the other copypasta crap than that ANNOYING CROW dogshit.
I'm not even sure what it is, specifically, about that ANNOYING CROW asshat that bothers me so much, even when compared to all the other, typical, "This game is wOkE gArBaGe and I am a hateful dickweed who is going to write ten thousand words in this 'review' here telling you why I hate SjWs and FeMaLeS and nIg-I mean BlAcK pEoPlE so much"-type of "reviews" or other such shit, but it does. Maybe it's just because they're so fucking consistent with their egregiously unfunny shtick, even when they're not using thinly veiled transphobic, homophobic, and/or misogynistic slurs, like they so often do. I mean, the stupid fucker certainly lives up to the "ANNOYING" part of their username, that's for goddamn sure.
Anyway, yeah, this is why I think Steam should hide reviews from blocked users for those who blocked said users. I blocked ANNOYING CROW explicitly because of their reviews, and their reviews are basically the one thing that doesn't get hidden. Well, aside from all the disgusting, misogynistic, transphobic, homophobic shit they post on their profile page... but then, you have to actively seek out that particular bullshit, which I don't, not after the first time when I went to their profile page to futilely block their dumb ass (well, and again, when I went there just now to get a link to their so-called "reviews").
"Hello, I think the Steam client should hide all content from a user you block, such as reviews, which aren't hidden, rather than just some of it, like forum posts and review replies, which are hidden." (Paraphrasing there, because what I put in the actual ticket was somewhat more elaborate.)
Steam Support, copy/pasted exact words:
"I'd be glad to provide information about this.
"Please note that once you've blocked a user, they can no longer communicate with you using the Steam Chat.
"But you will still see the User Generated Contents that they have made."
(Kind of shocked that they didn't start with "I understand..." like they typically do.)
Me, to myself (and, now, here on Dreamwidth), because I'm not going to bother escalating this on Steam itself:
"No shit, Sherlock, I already know that. That's why I'm making a support ticket about it in the first place, you dim bulb.
"Also, besides, what you said there is not even a true statement, because as I pointed out in my support ticket to which you are responding, some 'User Generated Contents,' such as forum posts and replies to reviews and the like, are hidden from view. Reviews aren't, however, which is what I think is the problem and is why I opened the ticket."
Also Steam Support, exact words (the remainder of the reply):
"We value feedback from the Steam community. If you wish to share an opinion, suggestion, or idea with the community as well, please visit the Suggestions/Ideas section of the Steam Discussion forums.
"This forum is regularly read by Valve's development team.
Steam Support
<name redacted>"
Me, to myself, because it was such a waste of time to contact Steam Support in the first place, as it always is:
"Implying that Valve devs don't 'regularly read' (or ever see) support tickets? Probably because tech support drones like you were hired for the express purpose of filtering support tickets so that actual Valve devs don't have to pay attention to them? If anything, Valve devs should pay more attention to the Steam Support tickets than to the goddamned forum, considering how many hoops one has to jump through just to be able to even fucking create a support ticket to begin with.
"Also, if I wanted to post to the fucking public suggestion forum that everyone in the world can see, rather than creating a (presumably) private support ticket that everyone in the world (presumably) can't see, I would have done that in the first place, you fucking dipshit, especially considering it's invariably the same damn thing you drones always, invariably, say to do, after giving a similarly worthless, banal, braindead reply to every other Steam Support ticket I've ever created. I'd rather get a single worthless, banal, braindead reply from a single tech support drone than dozens of worthless, banal, braindead replies from fucking randos on the forums. Because I peeked into the 'suggestions' forum and very rarely, if ever, does a Valve dev reply, compared to random assholes derailing the thread or arguing about moronic dumbshit or making ad hominem attacks against the thread's OP or what-the-fuck-ever, even for the rare few actually good suggestions made there.
"Really, what is even the point of Steam Support at all? Not sure why I keep bothering to try to contact them about shit like this, as if the result is ever going to be anything other than me ending up writing a pissy-ranty Dreamwidth post about it."
Just to note, horseshit like this is what I'm tired of seeing. Honestly, I'd rather see the single word "reviews" or the "Here is a cat, pet it and give it thumbs up to make yourself feel better about yourself" ASCII "art" "reviews" or the "Nobody reads reviews so I will write that I am gay" "reviews" or any of the other copypasta crap than that ANNOYING CROW dogshit.
I'm not even sure what it is, specifically, about that ANNOYING CROW asshat that bothers me so much, even when compared to all the other, typical, "This game is wOkE gArBaGe and I am a hateful dickweed who is going to write ten thousand words in this 'review' here telling you why I hate SjWs and FeMaLeS and nIg-I mean BlAcK pEoPlE so much"-type of "reviews" or other such shit, but it does. Maybe it's just because they're so fucking consistent with their egregiously unfunny shtick, even when they're not using thinly veiled transphobic, homophobic, and/or misogynistic slurs, like they so often do. I mean, the stupid fucker certainly lives up to the "ANNOYING" part of their username, that's for goddamn sure.
Anyway, yeah, this is why I think Steam should hide reviews from blocked users for those who blocked said users. I blocked ANNOYING CROW explicitly because of their reviews, and their reviews are basically the one thing that doesn't get hidden. Well, aside from all the disgusting, misogynistic, transphobic, homophobic shit they post on their profile page... but then, you have to actively seek out that particular bullshit, which I don't, not after the first time when I went to their profile page to futilely block their dumb ass (well, and again, when I went there just now to get a link to their so-called "reviews").
