Are those downvotes maybe coming from non-Lemmy instances?
As an admin you should be able to see the downvotes of the post that made it to your instance.
I'm wondering if some software might be broadcasting votes to all linked instances, while I believe Lemmy only sends them to the community instance and it's the community instance's responsibility to relay them.
fwiw, every week or so there is a scheduled task that permanently overwrites contents of deleted comments.
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The OEM version is working fine, as the drivers are embedded there. My point was that without this recovery partition you tend to run into issues on newer devices, as the MS bundled drivers get updated only infrequently.
even on Windows 10/11, I'm still frequently hearing about issues at work where the necessary ssd drivers are only included in the default windows installer (not the recovery shipped with the device) like half a year later. at least with Dell this seems to be a common theme.
I have a large library of games I've never played on stream. a couple months back I wanted to play a game I had installed a while ago and guess what, forced always online. not from steam, but from the shitty team behind doom (don't remember which version it was), which just happened to be at the time I had a multi hour internet outage.
afterwards I figured out I had to explicitly block some network traffic to stop it from trying to force me to sign up for an account with the developer.
while steam certainly has DRM options, they are configurable by developers and afaik can't enforce an always online requirement with just steam, only though custom logic in the game or third party DRM. developers are also free to not use steam DRM.
DRM, as usual, harms the legitimate buyers.
that being said, steam still does bring a lot of value, such as their hardware developments, their work on better Linux gaming support, the update distribution through a trusted source, and various others.
you're not getting banned from steam, you're generally getting banned from participating in anti cheat secured lobbies of a single game or a group of games.
single player experience is generally not affected.
having a 3 strike system before getting banned from multiplayer just means it's 66% cheaper for a cheater to get a new copy of the game.
this is also not new and has been the case for the current family sharing system as well.
how about "silly"? "stupid"?
unlike on reddit, you can edit your post title here on lemmy.
reporting absolutely helps. it increases visibility for content that slipped through automated moderation and having more reports for content indicates urgency.
here's also some more context and explanation about what's going on:
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psdqurvye
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psnooe6p1
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9pth6oh3xr
why not?
won't be the case for much longer, the next lemmy release is removing that.
i suggest you remove this quote and summarize it with fewer details if you need to have it there in the first place. you're effectively advertising for them now and undoing the moderator action of removing this advertisement.