What are all those groups shown as options when I post a GA?

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On the new giveaway page, when I choose 'Whitelist / Steam Groups', I see a list which includes the like of:

group with no name (Members: 44,489)
Atavism MMO Creator (Members: 1,224)
Besiege (Members: 144,189)

and so on. Quite a large list that I have no idea about. Some of them are games I'm familiar with, but these aren't groups I'm on. There are 40 in total, but I'm only on 5 groups, and I was never on this number of groups, so even though I haven't synced in months, it can't be that I was on them.

What's the deal here?

9 years ago

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sappyMA

Hum, I have no idea, but I don't have such a problem.

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talgaby

If it is a game's title, then it means you are Following that game. In Steam, all games have a Community group. Following a game means you are following that group to receive news and announcements. This shows up as a normal Steam group through the API, so here as well.

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ET3D

Thanks. That's probably it. Now at least I have some idea what 'following' means. :)

That's pretty annoying though, having to scroll through these groups.

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Yirg

This is very annoying. The only workaround is to use this script to manually stick some groups to the top. Still, a better solution would be to only list groups one is a member of, not followed groups.

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foe

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Are you a wizard? I never seen a thread revived from the dead like this before. ;D

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Yirg

You haven't seen anything yet ;-)

8 years ago