Dear Steam: What makes you think we want everyone to know what we're doing?

First: I mean a lot of girls who play games do so incognito. I guess if you haven't ran into one you wouldn't know what I'm talking about. The girls you'd notice might flaunt their femininity. Maybe they're transgendered, I don't know. But some people want to put their gender out there, some people don't.

Second: A lot of players who are 'openly female' (show their name, etc) have their profile on private. I'm not sure what you mean by that.

Third: The person in my specific example was related to someone I didn't want to lose as a friend. I was being too nice, and ultimately had to delete them both, in part because he was driving me fucking nuts on the application I use to relax. So, yes, there are situations where 'delete the person' isn't that easy. I've seen people post (which were also shut down with "omg you have a problem I don't!" replies) that players were being readded by the same players in-disguise, who reveal themselves sometime later as that very same person. Why should Steam enable people to get to that point in the first place? Not talking to anyone, not adding people in matchmaking, etc, is not the solution.

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