You’ll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming
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Valve have made changes to Steam’s community awards system to discourage people from posting daft and angry posts in order to farm Steam points. You will, in fact, no longer be able to receive Steam points from other users when they give you awards. Adding insult to injury, there’s a new set of award designs […]