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There are guidelines on Steam that ban such content, and you can report people for violating them.
So no, Steam does not do "nothing" as you claim. A very basic Internet search can confirm that.
Even better, users can rate reviews as helpful or unhelpful. Which is great for a wider variety of reasons, but is also good for reviews that get into a grey area or use dog whistles to hide their true intentions.
as the article mentions, if you’d bothered to read it, steam rarely enforces their guidelines, which is the problem here
The article is behind a paywall. Do they have any statistics or evidence backing that sentiment or is it just vibes?
You can find articles and reddit posts claiming this same exact thing going back years, and yet personally when I go through the store and look through reviews it's really hard for me to come across hate speech, especially if you don't specifically look at reviews that have been downvoted to hell. It's never going to be perfect, but I encounter less hate speech on Steam than most other platforms.
i didn't have any paywall, maybe it's a regional thing? here's a version that shouldn't have it.
anyways, here's a screenshot of the Relooted review i talked about. if you check the game's negative reviews and sort by most pertinent, it's the 3rd one. it was here yesterday, and despite me reporting it, it's still here today, and in fact has been here since february 11th. as time of writing, it has 373 people who found it useful, and 115 who found it funny. some of the comments under that review are critical, but most just say "based" and the like.
CW: screenshot of a racist review, makes fun of George Floyd's death
it's an anecdotal evidence, but as you said, "you can find articles and reddit posts claiming this same exact thing going back years", doesn't that mean it's a recurring problem?
That's it? I kind of expected something worse with the whole stink your making about it.
It just your typical kiddie hater comment, not worth paying attention to and certainly not worthy of a moderator's time.