I just registered an account here to plead with Bethesda to place some moderators on the Steam forums for Fallout 4. The situation there has gone beyond ridiculous. Spoilers are being posted constantly and it a very malicious manner, with the title of the post being the spoiler so that the act of just going to the forum will lead users to seeing spoilers. People are being harassed and in some case even threatened. The Steam moderators refuse to do anything themselves, because they don't want to see the spoilers either. I personally know several people who were going to purchase the game but now no longer intend to do so because A. the game has been spoiled for them and B. their experience in those forums has been the complete opposite of what it should have been.

If it's a matter of being short on volunteers, I will volunteer right here and now to be a moderator on your steam forums.

Please, if you have any kind of regard and respect for your Steam users, please do something about those forums.

Bethesda has no control over the Steam forums, they can't just 'place' moderators there. Those forums are purely the domain of Valve and it's Steam admins. They make the decision on moderators, not Bethesda.

Advice? Avoid the forums there for a few more days.

I've been staying away from any forum and youtube/game site comments feed.

(except this group which is well moderated)

It's the internet.

It would seem asshats live there.

Steam's pretty notorious for considering moderation on their forums as being a dirty word.

You don't have to look very hard at all to have the entire game completely spoiled for you, if you choose to do so - so much for the "embargo", which anyone with half a brain would have recognized as an exercise in futility from the get-go.

Welcome to the internet

There is no reason ever to go to the Steam Forums they serve no other purpose then as a breeding ground for trolls.

Just stay here, we've got cookies.

And I was told the exact opposite in the Steam Community Forums. It's a lose-lose game here. Steam says it's the game creator/ publisher's responsibility and when I come here I'm told it's Steam's responsibility. I give up. I don't even know why I tried.

Seriously? Lawd.

There's an old saying - three can keep a secret if two of them are dead. People like to blabber about things they know, whether they do it out of malice, for personal profit, or just to be the center of attention at a party.

The only way to have a chance to avoid spoilers pre-release is for game publishers to not hand out any pre-release copies for review - the reviewers get the game at the same time the players do. And even that is not completely foolproof - how do you deal with publisher/developer staff members leaking information to the media, even smuggling out unauthorized copies of the game files? And once it hits the 'tubes, it's there for everyone in the whole wide world to see.

Or as has happened for some, stores giving out the game a week ahead of the release date.Not just shipping them early, but actively selling them to people who go in through the door.

Bethesda does not own or operate Steam forums. And they don't allow cross forum bashing here. So if you don't like the place, just don't go there and don't bash them here.