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.

What's the problem? I agree it's stupid but they're also very easy to ignore. Doesn't seem like a good use of anyone's resources to police these

Valve doesn't bother when it comes to this sorta thing. If they can't automate it, and it requires a human, they won't do it.
This leads to much worse consequences - the CS2 and DOTA2 communities are toxic cesspools. These games which actively require good communication are filled with the most vile racist sexist everything-phobic people (and kids!) you've ever seen. It's the wild west of the Internet, like 4 Chan. It's been like this for years, and it will continue like this because handling that isn't something they can automate, and hiring people costs money...

This made me curious if blocking a user on Steam will also block their content on Steam. It'll block them across games that use Steam's multiplayer services and from friends, for sure, but I've never thought to look if it also hides their screenshots, reviews, workshop uploads, etc.

I like funny guides, but the copy paste ones get old fast

Just joined into this /c/ because I'm annoyed by this issue.

Steam now has a system for "helpfulness" on reviews, to help float the reviews that actually analyze a game's pros/cons. I wonder if they could take anything they learned there and apply them to guides. I'm now realizing that for live-service competitive games, there would theoretically be a lot to cover for newer players, but they're instead getting flooded with "How 2 win" meme-style posts.

I also kind of admit: Sometimes these are worth a laugh, and I'm unsure about a system that completely deletes them, but players should still be able to filter/sort when looking for guides that actually help them play.

I think I might be the only one who likes reading these for the lulz then