Sorry but can't wait until this whole AI situation finds a proper balance.

But can we please remember that there is a huge huge difference between being asked to provide it optionally, to being required to provide it.

Yes, it says that they want a bigger cut of the sales when those items are sold. Not sad this hits the trading sites as that will also likely mean fewer will get scammed as they will stay in valves market, but saying valve is doing this for the users is crap, they do it for the profits, and maybe to stay under the radar of additional lawsuits regarding gambling laws around the world.

I'm willing to bet a lot of the young people struggling with gambing addictions started with loot boxes like the ones valve make a ton of money on.

A progress bar that never seems to finish loading, and restarts whenever you go back to the page, and then suddenly after navigating around and going back to the same page, I get a slow loading html table without any progress indication.

What a great way to really piss off users.

Also, it's not immediately clear that the input box on the frontpage is just for searching, I bet a lot of people enter something and click create, only to have to enter the topic again. You could pass that value to the create page and prefill it.