Steam Users' Forums
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The Steam Users' Forums, previously Steam Powered User Forums, is the official Steam Community message board hosted by Valve that holds the official forum for Team Fortress 2 among many other official forums for other Steam games.
Logging into the forum requires users to register a new account or log in using an already existing account. Steam accounts are not tied to the forum account in any way.
The number of Team Fortress 2 players that frequent and use the Steam User Forums accounts for approximately 3% of the entire playerbase. [citation needed]
Contents
Layout
The main forum mainly consists of threads for discussions about the Steam platform and other related issues. In the main forum there are many subforums for the many Steam games sold.
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 has its own official forum on the Steam Users' Forums. The topics can range from detailed looks into game design, reports of Team Fortress 2 related media, bug lists, specific Team Fortress 2 announcements and more. There are also several other subforums within the forum to filter the sheer amount of threads posted.
New Users/Training
With the introduction of the Mac Update this forum was implemented for new players to post queries concerning gameplay or anything else, which experienced forum members could attempt to answer. This allows new players to specifically post questions in a place where they are more likely to get answered. It also provides access to gameplay guides, videos and other resources.
Trading
Anybody trading items makes their threads here. The subforum was added prior to the Mann-Conomy Update in anticipation for trading and is now put into full use. There are constantly people trading and it is one of the most active Team Fortress 2 subforums.
Classes and Balance Discussion
This subforum is used for class balance discussions. In this subforum there are nine subforums, one for each class and is used to give suggestions or comments towards the current classes and their relative balance.
Server Feedback
Any discussion on servers goes to server feedback. Discussions can range from plug-ins, player count, or any other setting relevant to servers.
Bot Feedback
Feedback on bots is restricted to here, be it about bugs and glitches, suggestions, or questions about how they work.
Meet the Team
This subforum is primarily to discuss anything about the Meet the Team videos. This includes any suggestions, questions and comments about existing or possible future Meet the Team videos
Community Content / Contribution Project
All discussions about community contributions or otherwise generally go here. There are also many resources to help budding contributors such as guides to hat making, skinning, video making and more. This forum as three subforums: Art/Video, Other, and TF2 Maps
Special Subforums
Occasionally Valve makes special subforums for special things, such as the TF2 Hat Describing Contest. Some of these subforums are not shown as subforums on the Team Fortress 2 main forum, but exist.
Suggestions
It is frequently cited by Valve that they read the posts on the forums, and users are encouraged to post and discuss various aspects of the game. They are interested in the problems that players come across and working towards fixing them; suggestions and solutions to certain mechanics are less helpful, as they do not provide as much focus on the root problem.
Various members of the forums, upon sending an email to the developer Robin Walker or other developers, may post the reply and their various takes on it on the forum.
There have also been several accounts of hoax emails on Steam Users' Forums. Robin Walker has even replied to one of these hoax emails about the Golden Wrench.
