Posted February 10, 2016
"Hello /r/Steam. I’m Victor - or \Victor, if you prefer - and I’m a translator and ex-moderator from the Spanish Steam Translation Server team (STS). For those who don’t know, the STS is a place where Steam relies heavily on community translators to make localizations for Steam and Valve games such as TF2, Dota 2, and CS:GO. I’m speaking on behalf of my team - though they’ll probably show up on this thread later - and I’m here to bring up a situation that affects a big part of the community: Valve employee Torsten Zabka, also known for being the Head Admin and creator of STS, has been harassing, lying, discrediting, creating an oppressive, intimidating environment, and overall doing questionable things that have finished with several mods being kicked, a strike of the whole Spanish team that’s still going, and another Valve employee being illegally fired for complaining about these unlawful activities. We would like to share the story with you."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/44yl24/how_a_whole_language_of_the_steam_translation/
"My name is Riccardo, known online as Oktober, and I used to be one of the moderators maintaining the Italian language on STS last year. In this message I'll be speaking on behalf of the rest of the language's members (Franco Franchetti, Bloody Skull, and Alixey) that received the same unfair treatment as I back in 2015. Upon reading this story, the Italian team and I felt encouraged to share our own experience with Mr. Torsten Zabka, that happened roughly half a year before theirs."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/44yl24/how_a_whole_language_of_the_steam_translation/cztw5id
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/44yl24/how_a_whole_language_of_the_steam_translation/
"My name is Riccardo, known online as Oktober, and I used to be one of the moderators maintaining the Italian language on STS last year. In this message I'll be speaking on behalf of the rest of the language's members (Franco Franchetti, Bloody Skull, and Alixey) that received the same unfair treatment as I back in 2015. Upon reading this story, the Italian team and I felt encouraged to share our own experience with Mr. Torsten Zabka, that happened roughly half a year before theirs."
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/44yl24/how_a_whole_language_of_the_steam_translation/cztw5id