Archisteamfarm: Automatic Steam discovery queue should be optional and disabled for non-bot accounts by default

[13xforever]

Suggestion

Purpose

While auto farming sale cards through discovery queue is appreciated, this will mess up with user's recommendations if they care about them. Thus it should be an option to enable this behavior for those who desire it, not forced upon everyone.

Bots are fine, I think. For non-bot accounts there should be at least an option to disable this, if you insist on forcing this by default.

How can ASF users benefit from this suggestion?

You won't fuck up their recommendations? Especially considering that sales are the only time people actually go through the discovery queues.

Why currently available solutions are not sufficient?

There isn't an option currently.

Does your suggestion fall into ASF scope?

I believe so, considering that you just added this functionality in experimental branch.

Is your suggestion abiding to Steam ToS?

More than current behavior, I think.

Additional info

I believe this should be in before releasing to stable.

[Ryzhehvost]

But going through discovery queue does not interfere with recommendations at all. It's basically just opening game pages, nothing more, it does neither add anything to wishlist nor press "don't interested".

[13xforever]

Going through game pages through Discovery Queue explicitly is not the same as opening the game page directly. We don't know how VALVe interprets the data (or not).

[Ryzhehvost]

So, you admit that you don't know it, but for some reason you believe that it will influence recommendations?

[Pandiora]

@13xforever You could've deactivated ASF's Auto-Update and checked for yourself whats new for latest release? Just install a pre-sale-version of ASF and wait at least until 6th July to get the next available ASF-Release.

[JustArchi]

@light444 It does not matter to me what is your legal stance on auto discovery queue. Your post is nothing more but spam totally unrelated to this issue or development, and I ask you to refrain from doing that. If you don't want to discuss the issue, then do not post.

[JustArchi]

As for the issue itself, I agree that this option should be possible to toggle, preferably with default value of being set to true.

However, I'm in the middle of porting ASF to V3, so most likely this will make it into ASF V3 stable and not V2 anymore. V2.3.2.4 will most likely be final V2 release, having stable of V2.3.2.0.

[Botan626]

Could you add a command to manually force ASF clearing discovery queue?

[JustArchi]

No.