![]() Generally advertising refers to a commercial product or at the very least something being montetized. The only one it could fall under is advertising. I think you could make a strong argument that a piece of free software on github doesn't fall under any of those. "Soliciting, begging, auctioning, raffling, selling, advertising, referrals". If you really want to get technical though, the rules don't say anything specifically about "self promotion". I don't think discussion of alcohol is very strongly enforced either. Eg, posting copyrighted material could be enforced extremely broadly to mean any youtube link with music or video game footage. Plenty of the rules are clearly enforced in this manner. Hard disagree, context and intention matters and is often plainly obvious. If someone wants to make helpful programs and apps for Steam, there are already proper places and ways to do so - which don't include the forums. It has to be a universal stance, which is why it states in the rules specifically that there is to be no advertising on the forums, otherwise you'll end up with every scammer under the sun advertising their poisoned links and websites. Hopefully moderators are able to appreciate the distinction between something like this and someone trying to promote their crappy Youtube channel. This kind of thing gets asked about quite often and would be useful to a lot of people. Though this is likely going to get moved or deleted regardless because it's not the proper forum. Open source stuff directly related to the platform is kind of a grey area from what I've seen.
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