This reply in Steam got me banned from your Steam forum.
I ask this question, because Russians are openly bragging in Steam about their deeds in Ukraine.
Step it up, get in control.
You were banned by a member of Steam Support.
Reason: "This post is not related to the thread that it was posted in. This type of content is not allowed on the Steam Community. "
What are sanctions doing?
Why are you complaining here about Steam’s actions?
Your topic is not related to the forum that it was posted in.
Yes the connection is:
FunCom is renting Steam goons to provide Russians celebrating deeds worth sanctioning with customer support. And mug me for pointing it out.
Your tin foil hat is screwed on a bit tight.
While I sympathize with your issue, you should be complaining to Steam forum moderators, not here.
p.s. You also have the ability to report the people causing the problem, just saying.
No, I cannot address Steam moderation. It’s the other way around: this is not my first ban for mentioning sanctions. Support for Russia’s genocide appears to have critical mass in Steam moderation.
In the past I’ve also reported the in game Bazaar selling world wide in Russian Rubles only. This got addressed. But the question remains: how on earth did the situation come to be?
The positive note is:
Losing another Steam account means little compared to what was lost to have sanctions imposed.
I think you’re missing the point here. The moderation for Steam is not entirely staffed by Russians and their sympathizers, there are people from multiple countries and most of them are not going to be Russian sympathizers.
Therefore, you file a complaint (or multiple complaints) stating that you were banned by a Russian-sympathizer moderator and at some point your complaint(s) will get reviewed by someone who sees that their moderation was applied unfairly.
You will probably have to be persistent and file multiple complaints. For example, I once wanted a refund for a game that was an asset-flip scam, which I figured out after playing for abour 3 hours. I filed 14 complaints before I finally got a moderator who was willing to ignore Steam’s 2-hour policy and refund the game and my complaint didn’t even involve politics. Be persistent.
It is guaranteed that FC can’t (or won’t) do anything at all about your problem on Steam, the only place you can possibly get this fixed is on Steam. Period.
How/why? Because corporations will always to try to get away with whatever they can until someone make an issue out of it. They were hoping no one would notice the Bazaar was selling using Rubles and only took action after someone showed them it was getting noticed. Corporations are (almost) never pro-active, they don’t care about doing the right thing, especially if doing the right thing costs them money. What they care about is presenting the fake appearance of doing the right thing.
If it’s that important to you, and I completely respect if it is, then you need to be more persistent and keep filing reports (and keep reporting people on the forums) so the issue gets the attention it deserves. If you want the world to be a better place the first place to start is with yourself - if you’re not willing to do the work to make things better then why should anyone else? Put your effort where your feelings are, and do the work of pushing for what you think is right.