I just took a peak over at Steam and yeah, it is bad. There are some fruitful discussions about multiclassing and what character everyone will go with, but the most is really hateful and hurtful stuff. I guess the problem is, that the Steam forums are so big, while I was browsing, the thread I was reading, was already on page 2 and it was the newest thread a few minutes before. They would need a lot of moderators to keep up with that.
I can assure you it's a small group of bad actors who post prolifically. Which gives the false sense that they have larger numbers than they do. Statistically it's less than 1% but they can make up an outsize share of posts.
What is really dangerous about this is that it can make other people think that these attitudes are normal and so they may normalize that sort of speech. Later in life they end up getting fired a lot but never figure out why - and so they head to the forums to continue the cycle with all that spare time.
You ban them and it fixes the problem.
