Quoting: liamdaweArticle updated to avoid confusion.

Did you add the statistics to the article as well or have I been blind an hour ago? X)

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Quoting: tuubiYou seem to be missing some of them, maybe due to your location. I see 16 games in the silver tier, 9 of which are available for Linux. Payday 2 not showing for you maybe?

Ah, that might totally be the case!
It's not Payday 2, but it might be Football Manager or violent (zombie?) stuff.

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A little statistic...

Of 12 "platin" games:
* all available for Windows
* 5 available for Mac
* 5 available for Linux

Of 12 "gold" games:
* all available for Windows
* 4 available for Mac
* 4 available for Linux

Of 15 "silver" games:
* all available for Windows
* 9 available for Mac
* 8 available for Linux

Of 58 "bronze" games:
* all available for Windows
* 27 available for Mac
* 23 available for Linux

(It seems to be more like a top 97 by the way, if I'm able to count.)

That's more than 40% of the biggest games on Steam. Better than I expected.

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Quoting: Kels"Don't feed the trolls" has NEVER worked, even back on USENET.

It's even less effective when what the "trolls" want is your silence.

What I did sometimes is talking about the trolls instead. They neither get real contact nor silence this way.

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Quoting: FeistA little frustrating but for the moment I don't feel that there's much available for me to buy.

A little frustrating but for the moment I don't feel that there's much time available for me to buy and play even more games then I've already got on the stack.

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Quoting: rick01457I may cause some ruffled feathers here but the only thing I see wrong here is this article. Why you are calling out a mod of a steam forum for enforcing rules is simply beyond me. The whole '+1' trend, like Liam mentions, is spam, and publicly questioning the moderation of those forums is a no-go and rightly so.

We've discussed this several times here. My opinion is that these post do not qualify as spam.
The rule is "Do not do any of the following: Post spam (i.e. +1, 10char, rickrolls)"
These are meant as examples of pure spam that is bloating forums with no content.
"+1" posts of people asking for a port is the opposite, IMHO.
It's potential customers, and thus it's potantially important information for developers and publishers.

So, if you just read the wording, yes, a pure "+1" post would be consideres spam.
If you care for the meaning of the rule, it cannot be considered spam in my opinion.
It's not like say rick-rolling at all.

Quoting: rick01457You mention meraco and accuse him of something you don't actually have any proof of (or at least provide any proof of here) and his response is far more reasonable than your characterisation of him.

When I first read about him in a Linux forum, I looked at his last posts and starting actually defending him. Then I went to such a thread and asked him some clear questions. His reactions were trollish. I read more from him over time. He's clearly toxic. He once proudly told that due to his poisoning, such a thread was shut down. Meraco is a troll.

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Quoting: Mountain ManActually, the very best way to ensure Linux support is to keep buying Linux games. Developers care a lot more about their wallets than they do their bellies.

Full wallets make full bellies. :o)

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Quoting: MaCroX95I just don't understand why Windows users have this urge to bombard us on forums...

I'd totally understand it if we would be capturing every thread, but man, one thread per game, just how unbearable can this be?

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I don't know aout this case, but there has been such a thread where Meraco ignited a discussion which resulted in the thread being closed. His poison does work sometimes. Poor him if that gives him any satisfaction.

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Quoting: ColomboIf you want to know how totalitarian society looks like, look at highly moderated place on internet.

If you want to know how anarchy, ridden by the loudest (and most stupid), looks like, look at an unmoderated place on internet.

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