I hate these stupid guides so much. They inevitably get up voted and clutter out the more useful guides.
Unfortunately, the Steam community rewards this garbage. This spammer got shitload of Steam points by merely copy-and-pasting a “joke” guide.
How about the ones that teach you “how to cheat” in [insert game here] by giving you uninstallation instructions? Or, some of them even go so far as to try making you do damage to your OS installation.
I’m sure that joke was funny for like, all of two weeks in 2008, but the Steam community guides have clearly not moved on to a new joke since, and it’s… kind of sad? Surely people can make better gag guides than this, but I haven’t seen an original one in ages. And it’s not like this is even effective at hindering actual cheaters, either, as long as they know how to use Google. It’s just lame and unfunny.
Honestly I’m finding the guides to be less useful over time. Between these spam guides and the guides that are nothing more than YouTube videos (which I could’ve just went to YouTube if I wanted that), I have to go through several pages of guides before I find one that actually contains the information I’m looking for. It’s a bit annoying.
Have you tried pressing the report button? Idk if there’s an explicit rule against it but maybe if these are reported often enough someone at Valve will begin to care. Kinda like how they eventually banned games using a new update or prize as their primary banner image and tagline on the store page.
Edit: If nothing else the one here is definitely dishonest in the category and language tags. That’s probably grounds for removal.
I’ve reported hundreds of these stupid things because I use guides somewhat regularly. I think they’ve deleted like four? They do notify you when they take action, but it’s incredibly uncommon.
I used to in the past but I don’t believe there are any rules against it and I haven’t seen any taken down.
