Stuffing the Workshop?

[OldProf]

Some days, the combination of curiosity and boredom leads me into strange activities, such as prowling through the Steam Workshop list of scenarios for TS2013. Thus, I recently found myself selecting a "Most Recent" sort and clicking my way through pages of scenarios. This would have ended quickly, I think, had I not started to notice one peculiarity: scenarios named either "Güterzug nach Pasing" or "Freight Run to Pasing", both actually the same title. By the time I had glanced at the first 340-odd scenarios, each of these titles had occurred 10 times, each time with a different author's name and most times with a different screenshot image.

Given the information-overloaded era in which we live, having discovered this situation I felt compelled to make it public. So there!

[PapaXpress]

Are they clones of each other, or are they derived from the original with some change?

[peterhayes]

Some have different locos and rolling stock - and some are the same and have been "improved".
pH

[OldProf]

I knew there was something familiar about that title! I was just looking for a scenario to run and came across "Freight Run to Passing", which is included in the Munich to Augsburg route DLC. Although I'm not about to subscribe to and check every one of the Steam Workshop scenarios of the same title (English or German), the inevitable guess is that those who have submitted them have simply cloned and republished the DLC scenario, perhaps with minor changes, perhaps not. It's pretty evident that quality control is rare at Steam Workshop, if it exists at all. So it goes.

[Chacal]

There is no quality control at all.
There is a button for reporting a scenario, if it has a big problem like abusive language, etc.
Only then will someone from RSC investigate.

[buzz456]

What is you all's goal or problem? I don't understand. This is a freebie area. Deal with it. Do you think RSC is supposed to spend a bunch of time watching the goofs that put stuff here?

[g_nash]

Do you think RSC is supposed to spend a bunch of time watching the goofs that put stuff here?

Some sort of control,whether quality,or,in this case,maybe a weekly check for ( perceived ? ) duplication,should be maintained.
Lets not forget that the "Workshop" is a marketing tool,if you're going to allow these things,you had best be sure that it reflects positively on the brand.

[buzz456]

Caveat emptor. Oh that's right it's free.

[OldProf]

Yes, downloading from Steam Workshop is free, but nearly every new DLC announcement now touts "additional scenarios available from Steam Workshop," so yes, it is also a marketing tool and in a very real sense part of the product; since scenarios in some way sponsored or solicited by RSC to augment DLC packs look no different than any others available at SW, so some quality control certainly seems an appropriate use of company resources.