Valve bans users behind Steam Greenlight fakes

Valve has issued one-week bans to Steam users who soured the launch last week of indie game initiative Steam Greenlight by posting fake projects.
As we reported on Friday, the launch of Greenlight - which lets developers submit their games for possible release on Steam, with the community voting for the projects in which they are most interested - didn't go quite as planned.
In addition to fake entries for real games like Mass Effect 3, Half-Life 3 and Battlefield 3, some entries pushed the boundaries of taste. One, spotted by Eurogamer, was a 9/11-themed game calledBest WTC Plane Simulator.
While Valve has been commendably quick to act on these early problems, the fake entries show no sign of stopping. At the time of writing the very first result on the Greenlight page is Team Fortress 2, the Valve-developed multiplayer shooter which has, of course, been on Steam for years.
As we suggested on Friday, the danger here to Valve is that asking the community to help it overcome a major problem - identifying Steam-worthy games from the thousands of potential candidates - it has in fact created extra work for itself. Where once it struggled to find the best games from the thousands of submissions it receives, now it has to sort through the same number in order to find and remove the fakes.

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