I reported them for harassment with the following statement:
The purpose of this group is to review bomb any game that has gay representation. Their discussion threads talk about using other platforms to discriminate against LGBTQ+ communities and individuals to circumvent Steam’s TOS policies. This type of behavior promotes discrimination, review brigading, and toxicity. It is surprising Steam is tolerating such open homophobia on this platform.
It wasn’t until I saw my first queer slice of life anime Yuri On Ice in my late 30s that made me realize how developmentally harmed I was not seeing representation in like normal realtionships. Seeing a queer romance blossom in a healthy manner just clicked.
“I understand why mom watches and gets so involved in those soap operas now.”
Then LUCA - still makes me gay aww tear up. Just in animation, story telling - the lack of it growing up hurt me developmentally. Lack of visibility and acceptance.
These know it and know exactly what they are doing harming queer people, but especially queer youth. They don’t want them to be healthy functional queer adults. If they had their way they’d slap open season on us.
I have “until then” I’m just finishing my current pile of books before I move onto another VN, good to know it’s probably going to be good as this loser hates it.
on the other hand it looks like a great way to find cool games with good representation and character creation options
Let them. Their just outting themselves as a bigot while promoting games. If anything follow them and thank them for promoting lgbtq friendly games if you want them to stop.
personally i’m with you lemmy.ml person, I think using their reviews to find the hottest and gayest games and thanking them for consuming all this queer content like they’ve done a service to the gay community is a p. funny route which would probably make them quite mad
not sure why all the hexbears only focused on “let them [be a bigot]” here especially when it sounds like Valve isn’t going to ban them so something like this is really the only practical recourse available other than stewing over the fact that this person should be thrown into a pit
This is fine but they often flood the community board with bigoted content and those aren’t removed by Valve either, and they show up on everyone’s dashboard depending on configuration.
sigh Of course they do. Yeah valve should probably do something about those bigots.
Unfortunately they don’t. I think after the Hatred game debacle, they released new policies saying people can post whatever they want as long as it’s genuine and not trolling, but I think this applies to games only. As for everything else, the company is extremely libertarian and hands off with leadership, development, and moderation. You can find hundreds of neo nazi grooming steam groups, and one of them was in the news a few years back for being where two canadian neo nazi murderers met
