Why do we do what we do?
We do what we do because we love information, and making it accessible for the everyday Joe. Surprisingly enough, we rarely receive negative comments from developers. This is because all the information we display on this website, is gathered from the Steam network and websites using a normal Steam account.
We have had discussions with some developers though, which always end up in the developer being more careful in what they add to the Steam registry, as they often did not know it was public information. Some of you might think of this as a negative thing leading to less information in the Steam database.
We don't want to annoy developers with information shown on this site. We merely want to warn them that the information is indeed public, and Valve's system is far from fool-proof in regards to protecting their information. Even better, we notify Valve when we find new methods of gathering information before using said methods and publishing the results.
However, to this day we have not received a single response from Valve, and they only seem to patch our methods after we use them to make information public.
An example here is the Game Hub debacle from a while back. Or more recently: Game schemas of which we told Valve about on March 7th 2013, implemented March 19th, and Valve fixed it on March 20th.