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[FEATURE REQUEST] Please limit abuse of tutorial language labels #1460

Open int-ua opened 2 years ago

int-ua commented 2 years ago

Current Behavior (if any)

Currently AS allows selecting many languages while creating a tutorial.

Desired Behavior

Limit number of languages to some reasonable number like 2 or 3.

Motivation / Use Case for Changing the Behavior

It allows users to abuse mislabeling tutorials in languages they are not in. It hinders searching for content in desired language. I believe this can be interpreted as violation of Steam Online Conduct rules:

Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying Steam services, software or other content.
candela97 commented 2 years ago

I guess this is a case of too much freedom. Of course we can limit the selection, but this is enabled relatively easily (by making some changes to the DOM), so I kinda think this is ultimately Steam's issue to fix.

int-ua commented 2 years ago

this is enabled relatively easily

Most of your users don't know that. You could help someone use Steam with more comfort but you would rather blame Steam. Do you know any language besides English? I will try to come up with examples for you to see for yourself.

candela97 commented 1 year ago

Most of your users don't know that.

I've seen people provide solutions on Reddit and Steam forums, all of which are "simple" by means of skill required. No doubt there're user scripts too.

I understand that this can be abused; thing is, people who abuse language tags aren't going to stop at that, the guide itself is most likely off topic and should be removed regardless. I've reported tons of meme guides in the past as well but they seldom get dealt with AFAICT.

The reason why I think this is Steam's responsibility to fix is because Steam's "fix" for this issue they applied a few years back was incomplete. They should have enforced this limitation (only one language tag allowed) server side, but instead they made some lazy changes to the DOM that can easily be reversed.

I wasn't the one who authored this feature, but I believe multi-language guides is a thing so there's still a legitimate use case for this. If Steam officially disallows this practice or makes it difficult to workaround, I'll rally behind removing this feature.