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    11 days ago

    Steam has … basically, emojis that you can give people, as… basically ‘awards’.

    There’s a whole system of ‘points’ that you get when you buy a game or get an in game achievememt, you can spend those points on various flair for your steam profile…

    Or, give silly awards to people.

    So… I would guess that ‘clown farming’ would be intentionally trying to get as many clown-moji awards as possible.

    Why do they do this?

    … To be the funniest clown, I suppose.

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        11 days ago

        I mean… its not the worst way of essentially reviewing users.

        Its also not the best, lol.

        I… don’t actually know that there is like… when you view another user’s profile, I don’t think it like, forces you to display your cumulative given ‘award’ counts, or is made such that anyone can always see them.

        I think… a user can choose to emphasize certain awards by picking one of… basically, their kind of ‘display cabinets’ on their profile, and then showcasing it in that.

        … Its kind of … incredibly convoluted, how everything that does, or can go into a steam profile page… how that actually works.