So explain how they would change the text using /me? Because I assume it's
hard coded to use a certain color and font type/size. And, if any one is
stupid enough to think that's a Steam Support and just blindly hand over
their shit, that's on them.



On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:33 PM, N-Gon <[email protected]> wrote:

> it was taken out because too many people were tricking unsuspecting users
> by typing in /me's bold blue text and claiming to be Steam Support and then
> urging the victim to hand over their Steam Account credentials or TF2 items.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Derek Howard 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> /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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