I feel like it should be up to valve to fix this no? It feels like it should be possible to require an email for everyone that wants to start a server and then boot all of the ones that cannot be bothered to reply to your messages to stop spamming the server browser.

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shaokind 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As someone pointed out (and I should’ve mentioned earlier in the article): yes, Valve have a system for registering servers with Steam IDs.

But there’s two problems: they haven’t done any enforcement action ever, and server owners have access to massive amounts of burner accounts.

edit: I've now updated the article to mention that in the main body of the text.

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Aeolun 17 hours ago | parent [-]

If they start banning everyone that does it even those operators will rapidly run out of burner accounts. Can’t keep justifying $30 for every CS purchase if it’s going to be banned a day later.

	▲	shaokind 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed. With that being said, the price isn't $30 for the spam creators, they're buying shady accounts for far cheaper.

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leftyspook a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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tomhow a day ago | parent | next [-]

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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firesteelrain a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To be fair it’s a footnote and the article is a little difficult to follow

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shaokind 19 hours ago | parent [-]

All feedback on the latter point appreciated :).

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gchamonlive 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe op isn't familiar with counterstrike servers as they were back in the day. For me it was a very easy read.

	▲	shaokind 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Glad to hear it was an easy read for you! I did do some refactoring of the article based on the feedback here, so that might have also helped.

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gchamonlive a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> Unfortunately a steam account is required to run a server, and that burner accounts are no problem for server operators, which was mentioned at the end of the article, so the strategy you suggested wouldn't work

FTFY