Steam Punishes Thousands of Users for Upvoting Critical Reviews
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Thousands of Steam users were banned for marking a negative review of Warlander as helpful, which showed how to uninstall the game's anti-cheat software. Steam support claimed the review was "potentially dangerous" as it showed "how to cheat or describes how to tamper with anti-cheat systems". However, all bans have now been lifted, and Warlander's devs have issued a fix for a bug relating to the review.
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