Do NOT Delete Steam Events!
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 - 9:37am
A few Steam events have been deleted and the group history shows who did it. Steam events are not specific to your personal display, if you delete one it's gone for everybody. Events posted in the Steam community show up on the left side of the page, so don't touch them!
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
But I can't help touching things! I must!
JUST PUZZLED YOUR ASS UP, SON! -Mr Crinkle
You'll go blind...
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Considering that one of the culprits only has one post on the forum, I don't think he'll see this thread...
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I say put up a Wanted Poster.
Out the Offenders and place Steam in-game bounties on their heads!
This didn't affect me in the least, BUT I demand blood for the Blood God.
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Crap.. I went to let the dogs out. My son must of hit delete on the event I had open. He was closing things down to start his own game when I got back.
There has to be a way to write protect the events so only admins can delete them.
Sorry Certis and everyone else.
When you blink and a 5 year old jumps behind the keyboard look out..
What's your son's name? Let's add it to the Wanted List!
(just kidding of course
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I wish! There's not way to protect events near as I can tell, so we'll just have to keep an eye on our kids
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
Our kids? You said we wouldn't talk about that in public!
[alternate answer]
Our kids? No, we just need to keep on Ineil's kids; they're the troublemakers!
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I didn't even know you could delete them...
Now I'm curious...
"We prefer to be called the swarm of his dark lord, the thief in the night Boogle." - Boogle
What?! Who's talking?
JUST PUZZLED YOUR ASS UP, SON! -Mr Crinkle
I feel like the kid being told not to touch the plate of fresh hot cookies. Now that I know I can the temptation is overwhelming!
Good thing I have SOME form of decency
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No, you can't delete the kids!
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Oh, how long can trusty Cadet Stimpy hold out?
How can he possibly resist the diabolical urge to push the button that could erase his very existence?
Will his tortured mind give in to it's uncontrollable desires?
Can he withstand the temptation to push the button, that even now, beckons him ever closer?
Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history, at the mere push of a single button?
The beautiful shiny button!
The jolly candy-like button!
Will he hold out, folks?
Can he hold out?
Actually, I may be accidentally guilty here too. I saw something for COD4 in my Steam account and a tag beside it saying delete. So I clicked it since I don't play COD4.
If that is what you are referring to Certis then I apologize to all of those affected. I honestly thought it only affected MY calendar.
I promise it won't happen again.
Grenn wrote:
Try and stop me! Bwahahaha! Consider them deleted.
"We prefer to be called the swarm of his dark lord, the thief in the night Boogle." - Boogle
Right before they disappeared, I had edited a couple of them, fixing a couple of typos and stuff. I wondered if I had done something wrong when they disappeared, especially when I saw the title of this thread! But it wasn't me, yay!
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I didn't pay attention to them, NOW I want to delete them
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*shudders
Certis, order me around some more.
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I'm pretty positive that i've done this at one point or another. Theres soooooo many damn events in the GWJ group that I got tired of seeing one pop up every 10 minutes so I tried deleting one, only to realize that it deletes it period. Is there any way to block event pop-ups?
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The evil fun I could have with this.
McChuck wrote:
Now I have to log in to Steam and see if I did the dirty deed....nope. Or at least, I didn't see one that had |First to Die|Mateo next to it.
I looked back through 10 or so pages of history, and there are basically 3 people adding and deleting events at will...that can't be a good thing.
I love that we are using STEAM for all game events - reminds me! - still they can be a pain with so many...
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Double dog dare ya!
I think we need a few more smart asses. Everytime there is a post like this, everybody seems to want to put in there 2 cents worth. So here is mine.
"Sure. Blame it on the 5 year old."
Give 'em Hell !!!
"Forgiveness is between them and God. It is my job to arrange the meeting." - John Creasy
Another Coffee Grinder wiped out a series of events.
It is possible to limit creating and editing events to "Owners + Officers". The people who create events tend to be part of our community's relatively small (compared to the size of the whole Steam community) core group. Perhaps these people should be elevated to Officers, and have the event creation/editing be limited to Owner & Officers.
I realize this runs counter to the open spirit of the game calendar, but I'd look at it as a temporary fix, until Valve adds some more robust control to the Communities. It's too easy for one random Coffee Grinder to wipe out our slate of events, and force them to be re-created.
Of course, there's always the Operation: Zero Tolerance approach, in which case I beg to be made officer and allowed to do the dirty work.
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I, for one, like the idea of making Legion do everything himself.
McChuck wrote:
Nope. Anyone can make or remove them and there's no way to limit that.
The offending party in this case has been sacked. We'll see if that gets his attention.
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
I still like the idea of blaming the five year old. I believe in a past forum topic we tested how many of them we could each individually slaughter in a fight and I scored a deadly 28. Lets stick to the topic here people- it's five year olds with poking fingers and a very low center of gravity aiming for somewhere between your crotch line.
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