Guilty by Steam Group Association

This one’s kind of funny. I was playing Counter-Strike when a professional gamer accidentally shared a link in the public game chat instead of team chat. Of course, like any sane person, I clicked it as I recognized the site from way back. This guy was trying to figure out who was cheating idk.

The link was https://steamhistory.net. I entered my Steam ID, only to be surprised with a community-given ban. After taking a closer look, it turned out the ban was for lazypurple.com, whatever that is. Apparently, this means I won’t be able to play on their TF2 servers anymore.

Funny thing is, i haven't even played TF2 since 2024's spooktober

Taking an even closer look gives us the direct reason:

"Reason: Steam Community Group Ban (Slistingservice): Blatant bigotry; spreading conspiracy myths; general disingenuous and hostile attitude"

lol

So let me get this straight: being in a Steam group for game reviews gets you banned from TF2 community servers? And who even is LazyPurple? Apparently he’s a YouTuber with servers. Truly devastating news.

lol-v2

But back to the ShitListing Service group. I’ve always used their curation to see what they think of a game before buying it, mainly because they’re easily the most critical voice I’ve seen in a long time. I don’t really care what else they do.

That said, I remembered that I bought the slisting.com domain a while back with the idea of backing up their reviews for safekeeping. Valve isn’t exactly known for being strict, but losing 900+ game reviews because… what, politics? would be pretty sad.

So after noticing this ban with it's ridicules reason, I went back to the slisting.com project and actually finished it.

So here it is:

With backups of the Steam group announcements and even the Blogspot posts, all kept neatly in sync. Purely for safekeeping. Purely for reference. If something ever happens to the group.

p.s. seems like other users noticed too:

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