I have not opened my Steam in a day or two and just noticed I got a Profile Award (?). I got a few awards before for some of my weird reviews, but they never showed up prominently on my profile page. I (yes, begin the third sentence in a row with an 'I', very good form 🙄) checked all my reviews and none of them have received this specific award.

So, can you actually give awards to profiles? Is this what happened? I thought you could only get awards for reviews, guides etc. and Jester awards for rage-baiting/glazing comments on the forums of course. From a quick Google search I noticed you can't find out who gave the award.

I'm thankful for the nice gesture of course, but would just like to know why. I haven't done anything extraordinary and my profile certainly isn't anything special either.
This is so weird. 🙃

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Profile awards are cool! I'm proud of my Jester award!

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So they are a thing. Ok.
Sorry for diminishing your Jester award. Be proud, Schmetti!

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To be honest, you forget about them very quick. I got Jester for posting giveaways in LGBTQ+ thread. That's what you get for being tolerant. Well, there are more important things to think about.

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I got Jester for posting giveaways in LGBTQ+ thread.

Yep, that should be a sure-fire way in this day and age. Sadly.

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Hey, now you got one too! It wasn't me (I was the one with the heart award). Welcome to the club. :D

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I reluctantly accept your invitation to the club. thank you for the heart, but you really shouldn't have 💜

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I am proud of my 3 jesters.

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Congratulations but the only which counts is the Jester 😂

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I think this award has lost all meaning. People are literally farming it. Otherwise a cool award, I agree.

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I was just jesting ;) you got a well deserved award =)

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well deserved

Debatable. But it seems I just have to accept the mysterious origin of this award and move on. :)

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Some people do tend to troll in certain games with certain topics to get jester awards yes.

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I got multiple Jesters, most likely because some "special people/one of my fans" thought i would have a bad mood because of it.
Only thing that i done were to not show the awards anymore in the profile and being happy about the free points :-DDDDD

So be happy about the points :o)

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I got 141.

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Ok ok. ;)
I'm clearly behind times since this was completely foreign to me.

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Ok guys. I'm glad you all are having fun spending your points on me, but this post wasn't meant to fish for compliments awards. Was just looking for an explanation for the ONE award I got. 😆
I understood the feature now. Please stop (and thank you :)). At least I got a Jester now. This seems to be a very important and mandatory award. Glad someone solved that problem for me.

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How do you understand the feature now? No message on this post indicates exactly what (the heck) they are?
Oh and congrats on your Jester (I suppose) !

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My confusion was with the profile getting an award while I only knew of reviews etc being able to get rewards. Might be obvious to most people, but I simply wasn't aware of it.
Some of the nice folks here answered my question by giving my profile more awards. Not exactly the way I expected my question to be answered, but an answer nonetheless.

I still don't know where the original award came from though. You are correct in that one.

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I never realised that was a thing myself and only now saw that I have a few of those myself. Never really noticed them (and probably never would have had you not mentioned them). 😋🙃

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Ah, finally some validation. Thank you, schmoan. Maybe I'm not old and out of the loop after all. Or maybe I am and you are too? Nah, surely not.

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Is it telling that most in the SG community refer to me as "gramps"? 👴😋

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This topic made my day :D

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Well, I'm glad my ignorance brightened someones day. 😏

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Do you want some more? That could be arranged :D

(and to avoid any misunderstanding; I'm the one who sent the treasure one ! )

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Please don't. Those 6 awards have just tripled my points total. This was not my intention with this thread and it makes me feel weird.
Thank you for the treasure though. I appreciate it. :)

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i take it you didn't stumble upon this thread :o it's been around for 3 years and bumped many times since

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/9u9sa/giving-away-steam-profile-awards-for-free-5th-event

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