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How to improve /r/Steam? (self.Steam)

submitted ago* by ReinigerWE DID IT!!!![M]

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Hey everybody,

We just want to say hey to our every growing reader base here and we love how much support and feedback that you give each other all the time. It’s selfless and really makes /r/steam one of the best subreddits on reddit. That being said, there is always room from improvement. We have upgraded /r/Steam with various types of flair, updated the FAQs in the sidebar for quick reference and gave a shout out to other related subreddits. All of these things help to improve the community as a whole. Now this post has a point, we are looking for more feedback from you. As we keep growing (almost at 11k subs) we need to make sure we are meeting the needs of the people here. We ask that you guys give us feedback on what we can do better, what features you would like (including ideas for flair) or just general comments about how things are run.

Thanks again for being such a great community.

Sincerely, Mods of /r/Steam

EDIT 1:Awesome guys, such a good response and alot of what you all brought up are great ideas. Keep them coming and in the meantime we mods will work on getting what we can implemented.

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[–]darkarchon11http://steamcommunity.com/id/rootdarkarchon 47 points48 points ago

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Link to Steam profile in flair.

[–]ReinigerWE DID IT!!!![S,M] 15 points16 points ago

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This seems like a winner

[–]fxer 1 point2 points ago

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I remember /r/starcraft running into a size limit problem with the .css file when they tried each individual account have a different flair. I might be mistaken, but just a heads up.

[–]i_have_a_name 1 point2 points ago

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I think that was before the new flair was introduced.

[–]Kuiper 0 points1 point ago

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This is correct. The current flair implementation is actually built into the platform; it's no longer necessary to use a CSS hack.

[–]darkarchon11http://steamcommunity.com/id/rootdarkarchon 0 points1 point ago

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Yay :)

[–]Scalarmotiondoto 1 point2 points ago

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this should be really easy since /r/tf2trade already does it

[–]Antrikshy 1 point2 points ago

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Also /r/SteamGameSwap.

[–]bpwnz 18 points19 points ago

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pin something in the sidebar with the answer to the question "hi guys, just got steam, what games should I buy with an $11 budget?"

[–]Nathan_Sexplosion 6 points7 points ago

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yeah we need this. i'm sick of seeing these. and we should have a link to steam support so we don't have to see "problem opening steam" or "problem opening [steam game]"

[–]glod 11 points12 points ago

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Maybe a thing on the sidebar that lists the Deal of the Day and whatever midweek or weekend sale is happening at the time? I stay logged out of Steam unless I'm actually using it while I'm at college because my internet is bad, so that could be a nice quick way for me to check each day.

[–]TheCommieDuckPrincess Flutterslut 6 points7 points ago

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I use /r/gamedeals.

[–]wildeye 4 points5 points ago

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Also, and more specifically, /r/steamdeals

[–]glod 2 points3 points ago

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Following these both now! Thank you for the recommendations.

[–]Havermere 0 points1 point ago

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I think improving this into discussion about the games on sale? Or some daily/weekly post where there's list of the games on sale and discussion about is it any good and what kind of game we have here?

I personally love for example the hero posts in /r/dota2. It pretty much gives people an option to join ongoing discussion in daily/weekly manner. Or something like game of the day on steam discussion.

[–]glod 0 points1 point ago

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That's a good idea! It's really easy to find out what games are on sale on Steam, but less easy to find out if they're any good. And I trust Reddit's taste in games most of the time.

[–]lazydictionary 4 points5 points ago

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Removal of image posts. We get it, Steam had a pricing mistake.

This subreddit has no reason to allow image posts. If you need to post a picture, it can be done with an introduction and conclusion without linking directly to it. Emphasize the discussion.

[–]TheEpicSalad 1 point2 points ago

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Have a /r/steamhelp for people asking questions, and people go there to help.

Also servers. There should be servers.

[–]JohnStrangerGalt 1 point2 points ago

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Remove posts which are blatant circlejerks. Yes we all know steam is good, no we don't need to be told against why EA sucks.

[–]RJacksonm1 1 point2 points ago

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Perhaps some link flairs people can use to quickly identify to others what their post is. E.g. "Question", "Deal", "Announcement" (steam downtimes). It's only a minor thing, but would make it a lot easier to distinguish content at a glance. The current user flair icons are a bit...botched together right now too, I'll add a to-do note to myself to try make some cleaner ones for you all at the weekend. ;3

Do you mods or /r/steam in general hang out in any IRC channels anywhere? I'd like to stalk you.

[–]ReinigerWE DID IT!!!![S,M] -1 points0 points ago

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We have tossed the idea around about having an irc for for /r/steam. Is that something you all would want?

[–]counterplex 2 points3 points ago

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I think having an irc channel might cannibalize the sub-reddit community.

[–]RJacksonm1 0 points1 point ago

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If I'm interpreting you correctly - you mean an IRC channel would turn into the 'home' of the community and the subreddit would drop in activity as a result? While the two offer very different means of discussion (the subreddit supporting concurrent discussions a lot better, of course) I do think in-practise that may indeed occur.

For clarity, I didn't intend to suggest we start up an IRC channel for the community; my intention was to find out where people hung out so I could both extend my participation in the communities around Valve & Steam and get to know those involved in those communities, thus becoming a more involved and better community member myself. I can be found in #tfwiki and #dota2wiki channels on Freenode.net, I idle some others but those are the channels that have a reasonable level of activity on their own and that I tend to be most active in.

[–]bpwnz 1 point2 points ago

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buttttttttt steam already has group chat. maybe we just encourage people to start using the chat for the larger reddit steam group?

[–]jdb12 0 points1 point ago

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What about having game events in popular games: TF2, CS:S, DoD:S, L4D2, etc?

[–]Bainato 0 points1 point ago

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Beyond profiles as flair, I could said allow you to add a pick to the post title. Have about 5 icons according to the type of post being made, Bugs/Client Problems, Scammers, Sales, Players.

[–]resik307 -1 points0 points ago

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Add a link to the steam reddit group please