Trolling and being racist, homophobic, and plain hateful thread isn't 'Freedom of Speech'. Add to the facts, they are breaking every Steam Rule, to begin with.
The trouble with that is the subjective nature of what those words actually mean. Some have a higher/lower bar of what breaks those thresholds. What is 'obviously hateful' to some is simply vulgar, mildly crude or somewhat offensive to others.
The Steam forums have lots of nonsense but I prefer that to simply clamping down on everything that some may deem inappropriate because, let's face it, in this day and age that can be pretty much anything. Besides, you can usually tell the silly posts by their title, without any need to click on them, so I don't see where the problem is. I find it's easy to scroll on down to topics I'm interested in while ignoring the rest.
