Somebody doesn't like boob-smooshing. You can probably expect these issues to continue. When they come at my avatar for its sexy, skinny legs, there will be no one left to speak out. /s
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Kinda funny they're not allowing your pfp, but then allowing profile backgrounds like the one you have and worse. ...And also allowing every other game released to the store page be some sort of asset-flip AI hentai game. I don't care much for NSFW stuff, but their actions certainly don't seem very consistent to say the least.
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That's the point. I'm using this avatar only because it's similar to my background and I want to keep a single theme for my profile
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Well, they're making a ton of money on AI hentai asset flipware. They are not making money off boobies avatars... they have to maintain standards.
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Sciamano's Ahri?Good choice.
Hmm.Whoevers in charge of the banhammer is a DOTA fan thats playing whackamole with its competition,perhaps?
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Thank you and also happy cake day! Probably yes ahah
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Seen a friend who got a similar ban for their own avatars. Face only cropped 'art'. But still face only. They couldn't figure out how support had an issue with it.
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Could it be an automated ban caused by multiple complaints in a short time period? Like a Puritan Steam group targeting sexy pics?
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The flagging and ban is probably automated. Never heard this happened, but I think it's very possible if you have something offensive. A '?" as a profile picture is hilarious to me to hear you got it flagged.
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No wait, I had the same avatar that I have here on SG. When my avatar was removed, it only showed a question mark instead of the old image ahah
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Oh, you mean the one you have now? That's odd, but who knows man.
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It's because they have such family friendly content for sale.
Shame on you for tainting the Valve image 😑
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They only care when they don't make money. They have to draw a line in the sand you know... standards.
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The tides of truth shall prevail !
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Its famous american twisted catholic morality.
You can kill a person in the movie in milion different ways, but dont you dare to show a bit of tit in there.
Ban abortion but not guns. Ban tits but vote for ppl like trump who have no morality or respect for women etc.
murica they call it or sth like that
That steam avatar banning looks like selling tickets for a porn flick but keep your eyes closed xD
And there is no real age verification. Are you 18 ? Yes i am officer, i really am (wink wink).
A joke.
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I think you might be my spirit animal 😂
Very often I've wandered around my apartment, wearing nothing but my old-man-robe, muttering: People are damn crazy - Guts, gore, pus, blood.. fine and dandy. Nip slip - Drama news for weeks. Cancelations, church meetings and hate-trains.
Meanwhile there are millions of streamer girls out there wearing nothing but a string covering their bits - playing hardcore sex games on public gaming platforms 🤣
Our world is a funny place.
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It's very weird how steam avatars are the problem for them - even if it is an automated system - when I have seen on their own points shop highlighted, backgrounds 10000x worse than your pfp by just literally scrolling through the main page of the points shop.
And I'm not even counting the AI or non-AI NSFW games that get released on steam every other day, which is way worse than a pixelated image that doesn't even show anything...
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Anyone can report your avatar several times in short time, and if Steam Support deems it inappropiate they will issue a profile avatar ban. You cannot use custom avatars, but you can use Steam official avatars of the point shop or of certain games (Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead), Steam will never issue a ban over those avatars.
You'll have to battle with support if your avatar wasn't innapropiate for you, hence the ban was not fair.
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Anyone can report your avatar several times in short time
Nah it's automated AI moderation. I'm sure there are people who have nothing better to do but OP said they reuploaded the same avatar and it's already gone. One hour seems like a very short turnaround for someone to do it manually. Even if they have nothing better to do than report boobies avatar, I'd imagine they wouldn't check every page they flagged within an hour just to see if the ban has been reverted.
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yeah, but have you considered, oh, idk, maybe not posting smut as your avatar?
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What I think is happening with a lot of (really big) websites is that the humans running them are more and more losing control (or interest in keeping control) over them.
According to the quote you posted, you have explicit permission to use your avatar as is, tiddies and all. Yet it keeps getting taken down; I have little doubt that the entire process is automated. If they really have no interest in taking down your profile picture, the most obvious solution would be to stop the automated process from doing so; yet they won't... and I honestly believe they can't, at least not without having to extend more effort than they are willing to put in.
It's similar, and probably more extreme, with YouTube, where I've heard many stories like this. There's one that happened to the YouTube channel Video Game Animation Study around a year ago, although I can't find the video anymore (he might have removed it). Basically what happened (as far as I remember) is that he received an official warning from YouTube, and his Favorites playlist got deleted. When he reached out to YT staff, they told him he violated YT guidelines... but they wouldn't tell him what he did that allegedly violated their guidelines, claiming that doing so would allow him to find a workaround.
Eventually, the channel creator found out that one of the videos in his Favorites playlist apparently violated child safety guidelines. Note that a) he didn't make the video, only favourited it, and b) the video itself was still available on YouTube even after all that.
Yet he got a warning for it and got his entire Favorites playlist deleted.
Now, I'm not privy to the exact conversation he had with the YouTube staff member, but the feeling I often get with these stories is that what they really are saying is, "We don't know what's going on, either, the algorithm is doing all this stuff, we can't really keep up, and the best we can hope for is that you give up and stop complaining".
It reminded me a lot of the South Park episode with the manatees - they spent years cultivating this automated process that made them a whole lot of money, and now they've reached a point where they can't gain any control over it anymore without breaking the entire system, which is, of course, not in their interest.
... Anyways, that's my conspiracy theory for today.
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I think you got everything right. They sent me a new message few minutes ago with everything you said.
The content was removed by our staff based on an investigation of reports from other Steam users. After reviewing the decision, I can confirm that it isn't a good fit for Steam. I encourage you to read our Community Avatars & Profile Names article, which explains content removal in greater detail. I have gone ahead and removed the ban. Please feel free to update the account as long as it abides by Rules and Guidelines For Steam.
This means there's an automated check and they are saying they're tired of replying to my requests.
The system sees my avatar as something explicit and automatically removes it.
Probably this system isn't working well so they prefer to 'invite' me to change the avatar instead of checking what's going on with the algorithm.
Probably if I'll reupload the same image I'll get a new ban and they won't help the next time. Time to get a new avatar :/
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Hilarious hipocracy, indeed. Gotta check if I change my avatar for something of Genital Jousting xD
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Maybe you can trick the algorithm by taking a nice screenshot of some detail of your tasteful profile boobyground and use that as your profile pic ;-)
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You know what? I'll also change the background. It's time to edit my profile :P
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What’s the most scandalous avatar you can get on the points shop?
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wtf tho?! there are backgrounds and avatars you can get from certain games in the pointshop and they remove this? wow big fail from valve, either dont allow "nsfw" which this isnt even it (seen people using naked people and hentai for years, thats nsfw) or make a toggle like in the store that you want to see nsfw but a profile toggle indicating you use nsfw stuff. this just baffles me
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After the first couple of times, Support should have flagged your avatar as unreportable and let it be. I had a character on the RP server of LotRO with an appropriate name, but it was reported by the name nazis and changed by a GM. When I appealed the decision (explaining the source of the character name, the GM responded, "What was I thinking?". I got my name restored and flagged as unreportable so the trolls' subsequent reports went straight to the void.
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That could be a real solution of this problem. Anyway I don't think Valve will ever try to do something like that
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Just had an idea. Ask the devs of that game to add that avatar to the Points Shop. ;)
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Well, it's hard to tell Riot Games to post an avatar of a game from their launcher to another platform ahah
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So uploading your own boob pic as an avatar is crossing the line, but if you equip one from the Points Shop it's A-okay... Got it =_='
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i hope so, but only cuz im a counter strike player and im tired of seeing players have moving profile pictures in game. and they use them to troll. like most hackers will have the spinning toilet as their avatar. just annoying
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Moving profile pictures? Can you upload gif? Really?
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I want to share a little story with you that occurred yesterday on Steam.
Yesterday I logged on my Steam profile and something was missing. My avatar. Where did it go? I only had the sample '?' avatar.
I tried to edit my profile, went to the section 'avatar' and you know what?
I got a 6-days ban for using an avatar that was deemed inappropriate. It's the same I have here on SG btw.
The question is: Why are you removing this image today while I uploaded it like 3 years ago?
I asked for help to the support team and received an answer after 30 minutes.
The message said:
I reuploaded the same avatar and went to sleep.
Everything has a happy ending, right?
Nope. Today I joined Steam and the '?' avatar was again there.
Tried to edit the profile again and what? I can't change it for 7 weeks now.
Valve? Are you ok? I can't be the only one with this problem. Any of you had it in the past? What did you do?
I'll write here if something will change :/
Update 2025-02-20 - 18:00
Update 2025-02-20 - 18:10
I reuploaded the same avatar. Wanna see the highest days ban I can get
Update 2025-02-20 - 20:50
Removed again. Now I received a ban for 3 months. Time to write again to the Steam support
Update 2025-02-20 - 21:40
Time to find a new avatar then :c
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