Has steam moderation been absurd for anyone?

That is very unspecific topic for Steam. All the stats are available regarding what games are being played on Steam. And all kind of games are played on Steam... Probably mode considered it as a pure flame, if you haven't specified anything else inside of topic.

You can ask Steam Support why that happened, they'll answer you.

The ban is absurd but so was your topic. Everyone can see what people mostly play on Steam at any time after all.

I have never been banned (I think), but I know that's common for people to get absurd bans from Steam. I guess it was not the first time and will not be the last one, unfortunately.

I have been banned permanently by the Blizzard just because i did not recommend Diablo 4 on steam
https://imgur.com/a/o6x2grr

my theory is that someone working for valve/steam doesnt like fiat punto
maybe it gives them PTSD and as soon as he saw your profile he banned you lol

Yeah... Steam moderation is ridiculous. Had a review for a game get banned so it doesn't show up, and when I asked they couldn't tell me why it was banned. I asked repeatedly for them to quote what got it banned but they would just repeat that it broke the guidelines, and wouldn't elaborate on it. So more times than not they won't admit when they've done something wrong, or rather my guess is they can't. I'm guessing most of the support who answer tickets have no actual power beyond simple fixes. I've slowly learned that Steam has gone downhill... Yet our loyalty remains.

my best game forum ban was a sad snowman steam emoji, thats it.....
steam gives devs way too much power with no system in place to rein them in

was this post in an specific game forum? I think the devs ban post from their game there, not a steam mod..
I may be wrong, but that was like that last time I read something about bans on forums.

UPDATE: Steam support said it was a mistake,and unbanned me.
https://i.imgur.com/ASNfE35.jpg

All my experiences with Steam moderation and/or support have been absurd. Only once I knew I was talking to someone who was reading my words and writing a real answer. The rest, boilerplate text chosen from a list of "most probable replies for this subject". Damn, I hope they're not implementing some kind of stupid AI which will make things worse.

So they do nothing when a dev replaces a working game with an empty depot, but they auto-ban someone? No wonder, even if issues get solved eventually, Steam support has such bad rep.

You only get the month long community ban if you have a history of violating ToS in the forums repeatedly. Soooo....I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the full story hasn't been revealed here.

Yes. I sincerely doubt contacting steam will be helpful in any way as they talk like you're a fae, trying not to bind themselves in a contract.

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/tsH0T/account-ban-for-liking-a-review-on-steam-got-a-response-from-support

They most likely thought your question was provocative, followed by promotional messages:

• I love zzz game
• No, it sch! Play yyy game!
• No-no-no! vvv game is better!