Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship
from Pro@programming.dev to games@lemmy.world on 28 Jul 20:51
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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip on 28 Jul 21:51 next collapse

Yeah…

Assuming that was true, (presumably) OOP was just wasting their own time AND hurting the CSRs’ statistics because that is going to be the same “someone complained about X” in the logs/reports.

SheeEttin@lemmy.zip on 28 Jul 22:05 next collapse

It’s how the policy got implemented in the first place, so clearly it works.

NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip on 28 Jul 22:28 next collapse

Complaining, yes.

Weirdly bragging about wasting half an hour complaining?

SheeEttin@lemmy.zip on 28 Jul 23:49 collapse

And instead we’re both here wasting our time commenting. Is that more productive to you?

Zorque@lemmy.world on 28 Jul 22:41 collapse

Nah, pretty sure the policy got implemented in the first place because the deep pockets of the ideological lobbyist group.

Fredselfish@lemmy.world on 28 Jul 23:17 collapse

Yes by buying thousands of chirstfascist to call and email and complain. We shouldn’t have to pay to do the same fucking same in reverse. There are millions of us. We should have the power to break them. Get to calling. I have.

Zorque@lemmy.world on 29 Jul 01:13 collapse

I doubt it was phonebanking that did it, that was just the ground level cover. Guarantee they made a direct financial threat against shareholders.

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world on 29 Jul 00:10 collapse

hurting the CSRs’ statistics

Clogging the pipes. Taking up resources. Costing them money and time.

My last company outsourced call centers and paid per ticket. I promise you this sort of campaign would get noticed and hit the bottom line.

moody@lemmings.world on 29 Jul 01:45 next collapse

Clogging the pipes. Taking up resources. Costing them money and time.

Meh, not really though. The employees are paid whether or not you call. They’re not going to hire more people just to deal with complaints, they’ll just make the wait times longer.

The number of complaints they receive is going to have a bigger impact than a few people wasting time on the phone.

spankmonkey@lemmy.world on 29 Jul 14:29 collapse

“This thing we did because some whiny group was wasting our time is costing us more time from the complaints.” is a business reason to reverse a decision.

NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip on 29 Jul 03:43 collapse

And would just lead to outsourcing even more or encouraging a shift toward “AI” instead.

There are different dimensions here. For the purpose of “hey, maybe don’t glaze the christofacists” it is number of complaints. For the purposes of “Hey, maybe there is a better way than paying these CSRs” it is metrics such as calls resolved per hour and average time per call.

jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works on 29 Jul 13:42 collapse

outsourcing is almost always the better option for companies because poorer populations will work for less

VitoRobles@lemmy.today on 28 Jul 23:29 next collapse

Working at big major companies, email/harassment campaigns work.

Some psychopath got the news journalists on my company because we didn’t have a giant American flag in our campus. We were getting hundreds of emails from randos, were getting review bombed online, and they were even sending letters to the CEO.

We called it flag gate internally. And after a month, there’s that stupid flag.

MotoAsh@lemmy.world on 28 Jul 23:41 next collapse

Did this really have to be a ton of screenshots?

Stovetop@lemmy.world on 29 Jul 12:48 collapse

Smartwatch-sized screenshots too for some reason?

iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works on 28 Jul 23:52 next collapse

Gamers rise up

somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Jul 18:06 collapse

You know what? I’m gonna act as dumb and confused as possible, do the same things as the OOP, on multiple phones.

chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Jul 00:03 next collapse

Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/Steam.

Hmmm

TeoTwawki@lemmy.world on 29 Jul 14:18 collapse

I think it is also worth making the point that this far right-wing group masquerading as feminists is often dishonest about what content is in the media that they are targeting in order to effect its removal (and generate support from clueless individuals on social media). Just because they told the payment processor the platform was full of visual depictions of vile filth doesn’t mean that is what they were really targetting in their removal demands to steam, resulting in removal of things that indirectly referenced events of a sexual nature, not just hentai games. Dipshits on reddit keep framing this as defending rape.