/me on Steam Chat was taken out months ago, and that's a very good thing.

/me on game server chat has never (?) existed without the use of some sort
of third-party plugin/extension. Generally,
this<https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?p=665771>is the
plugin that I see providing the command (on TF2 servers).



On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Bruno Garcia <[email protected]>wrote:

> It was used for scamming, and phishing.
> People used it to personate "Steam admins" by changing the color of their
> text, appearing it was a different "rank".
>
> I'm glad it was taken down.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Travis Brown <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I have a pretty good guess why. the /me is a irc action. My theory is
>> that each chat created a new irc channel and held the conversations. I
>> think they updated to a whole new system when they brought out the
>> emoticons. I could be completely wrong but this is my theory.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Albert Davis <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Why was this taken out? Can we get it back? :/
>>>
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