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  > Why does this imply that they're "abusive"

It doesn't. You read wrong.

  > While I've also fallen into the trap of thinking "I'm so special because I work in computing" before

I'm not saying scaling is unique to CS, you did.

You said that the demographic is so small that Steam shouldn't care about the abuse. That it is an acceptable level.

I said it is a mistake to think that a small percentage is a small number and to focus on the actual number. Instead of asking yourself if 0.01% is an acceptable level of abuse, ask yourself if 3k people is an acceptable number of people being abused.