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Our recent report detailed the ways in which players are fighting back while complaints to Valve have gone unheard, some players have created ‘Bot Extermination Services’ - creating bots with the sole purpose of taking out other bots and letting the genuine players enjoy the game as it was meant to be enjoyed. Screenshots recently obtained by TheGamer from one of TF2’s legitimate players reveal that the bots are also infecting the game with racial slurs, offering to sell bots (or bot immunity), and even posting links to alleged child pornography. TF2’s bots go way beyond creating a nuisance for players, derailing games, or sabotaging the in-game market in order to make a profit. We ran a story with this exact headline a week ago, but since then, further damning details have emerged revealing the depths of the problem.
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Before resigning in June, former chief executive officer Ellen Pao admitted that the company had “screwed up” by not delivering on promises to users and promised that the site would improve.Team Fortress 2 is overrun by bots, and Valve doesn't seem to care.
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The company has been under fire over the past few months for moves like the firing of Ask Me Anything coordinator Victoria Taylor, which led to a revolt by some of Reddit’s most heavily-trafficked subreddits. Nixing shadowbans and implementing a more transparent system of dealing with people who violate the site’s content policy may help ameliorate complaints by longtime users that Reddit, which launched in 2005, is ignoring the needs of its core community as seeks mainstream growth through initiatives like Upvoted, a news site that draws on popular posts for content. This may (ironically) lead to an influx of spam, though Reddit may add that feature. For example, suspended moderators can’t modmail or manage their subreddits. As user u/Viking83 notes, this is important because it prevents admins from erasing posts they disagree with.Īccount suspensions are a huge improvement over shadowbans, but the current system still has several drawbacks. Their accounts are still visible in read-only mode, and they can continue to delete or edit past posts and comments. Suspended users can’t post, vote, comment, or send private messages. Suspensions can be permanent or temporary, with users told how long they won’t be able to post to Reddit (most bans will last about three to five days). They can appeal by replying to the PM, instead of having to figure out over days or even weeks if they have been shadowbanned. The biggest change with account suspensions is that users will be notified instantly by private message and a site notification. A subreddit, r/shadowban, was even created to let users know if they have been shadowbanned.Īccount suspensions can currently only be applied by admins (who are Reddit staffers), not subreddit moderators. The system also made it difficult for shadowbanned users to appeal to moderators in order to save their accounts.