This ^^^^^^
Today I saw posts from a person with a new Steam account who started participating in the forum less than 24 hours ago and in many discussions he publishes some strange posts, baits (i.e. I'll give something for free) just to attract attention and has already managed to collect a dozen or so Steam rewards just for nothing

ive been seeing lots of ai generated game reviews on here lately

Yup, been saying this for a while.
Only allow awards for reviews, artworks, screenshots and so on.
NOT for forum posts. That was the worst idea Steam ever had and has turned nearly the entire forums, be it the official ones or the game subforums into toxic cesspools.

At least we can make point farming for workshop items, it would be fair
But it's definitely malicious feature in Discussions

ignore, report for spam, block, move on.

引用自 kash：

ive been seeing lots of ai generated game reviews on here lately

Not to mention whole wall-of-AI-text topics right here.

Also the problem of people just keep giving out their points for no reason . Remember that you have to buy something to get those points , of course you don't have to if you are a rage baiter but there is totally no reason for said rage baiter to give his points to someone else .

引用自 pckirk：

ignore, report for spam, block, move on.

Doesn't seem to be working, unfortunately. I guess you have to get enough people onboard with that though for long enough to get farmers to give up. A logistical nightmare to get such level of coordination here, AFAIK.

With the fact that some trolls will spam some people with jesters, I am glad that they are worth something. Free points from aggressors is a good thing, to be honest...

How about giving the option to withhold the points?
A simple radio button like this:

Naturally, the "shut up and take my points" award should be exempted from this.

It will do what I said before. Trolls will never gift points because their intention is to cause mass chaos without rewards. An option would only advantage trolls. Welp.

Every stories have two sides, though. On one side, you have aggressors with awards and then we have jester farmers. There is no way to win without bad impact...

But really the issue with the award system is twofold:
1. It provides a venue for harassment. Currently via the jester award, but another award could take its place if that one were removed.

2. It provides an incentive to misbehave, by rewarding misbehavior with points and higher visibility.

An option to withhold points would be addressing the latter but it would also be enabling the former.

Maybe the better option would be to do away with award badges and make the system purely about gifting points, so that it's unambiguously positive.

Another option: give award recipients the ability to hide any award types they don't like from their posts.

引用自 Major Gnuisance：

Maybe the better option would be to do away with award badges and make the system purely about gifting points, so that it's unambiguously positive.

I know nobody will agree but if we want to be rational here, this is the solution to this issue on both sides. By choosing to gift points yourself, you stop trolls AND farmers.

引用自 Major Gnuisance：

Another option: give award recipients the ability to hide any award types they don't like from their posts.

This is also another good idea. Hide awards from posts and profile. If they're supposed to be a positive thing only, there's no bad sides to choose which we want to show.

引用自 pckirk：

ignore, report for spam, block, move on.

Does that really help?
It really feels like moderation only acts after a user has been reported dozens of times. The new point system seems to have opened the floodgates for all sorts of problematic behavior, and it’s worrying how much goes unchecked.

Steam was a better place before they introduced those awards.
I mean you could still use Steam points for cosmetic stuff but just remove all awards.
Nobody needs them.