Question regarding how SteamRep works

[whoa]

SteamRep is a anti fraudulent site that helps user to avoid certain persons that they marked and to help user to avoid getting scammed.

I have been marked as SR Banned on SteamRep, this has come to my attention when I was opening my Steam account on my browser which has the SteamRep Checker extension, upon opening my account a red warning welcomed me. (WARNING SCAMMER)

I was flustered and got angry why? my last trade was 2 weeks ago (and the last one was on July) and it was nothing big, not even close to $100. it was a few items from Dota 2 which I bought from a guy. I was an avid trader back then and I always and I mean ALWAYS check their SteamRep profile no matter how much the item value is. I even reported scammers attempting to scam me.

So I checked the forums and even SteamRep.com how they manage to ban me or such. They SR banned me for being an ALT ACCOUNT of someone. I was like #!$@!$!@# I have been using this account for almost 5 years now, I have no idea who the person was, and as I did my investigation, my "alternate" account has multiple alternate accounts linked to him. How am I even connected to these people? they aren't even in my friends list. and I haven't traded with a scammer EVER.

I filed an appeal to my case, and after several attempts an admin reviewed my case and marked my appeal as Under Investigation. Now, I wanna ask the community how long will it take? What are the process of it and how in the world did I ever got linked with an unknown impersonator.

I was celebrating the other day because my Dota 2 account reached its 5,000 hours and I was thinking of creating a small channel on YT and maybe stream, but I don't think its a good idea to stream or create content with a SR banned account.

How do they handle and accuse and tag such user? Do they have evidence? What are their grounds for tagging me? They instructed me to wait, and gave me their Appeal Guide Section 16. I am impatient and I want this to be resolved or at least given a time or a date simply because I didn't do anything and am innocent of all the charges and yet I have been marked. How? "Anti-Fraudulent"

[Zekiran]

Steam rep is not anything to do with Steam.

It's a bunch of people patting themselves on the back.

Pay them absolutely no mind.

[whoa]

Автор сообщения: Zekiran

Steam rep is not anything to do with Steam.

It's a bunch of people patting themselves on the back.

Pay them absolutely no mind.

thanks mate! but then, I can't join servers in TF2 like I did back then, because I have SR ban etc says the servers. .-.

[Zekiran]

Then make a new account and use it.

Steam's free. TF2 is free. I see no problem here. If people are inclined to read that idiotic site and claim that it's legit, that's their problem - why would you want to be playing on their server if that's what they look for?

[whoa]

I see no problems in your reply and maybe that's what I'm going to do, but upon making my new account few things would happen, my game hours and my friends list will be gone, and if i traded my items to my new account since i am marked as scammer on steamrep, due to bp.tf's policy i would be marked a scammer on my new account since I traded with my marked account :/ I have been trading since and trading with scammers or marked accounts are to be avoided due to these communities "policy"

[whoa]

I wanted this to be done as soon as possible but their timeframes and such man idk. not to mention the rank i have in dota 2 took me years to get to Ancient.

(Herald > Guardian > Crusader > Archon > Legend > Ancient > Divine > Immortal)

[Zekiran]

You don't have to abandon any prior account, I mean if all you want to do is fart around in tf2, make a new account or just... ignore their BS.

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Автор сообщения: Zekiran

Steam rep is not anything to do with Steam.

It's a bunch of people patting themselves on the back.

Pay them absolutely no mind.

bunch of people patting themselves on the back


yeaaah i dont wanna be rude but i hope you realise that those people take their free time just to help keeping the community as free from scammers and phishers as possible

SR isnt perfect and they are in painful need of more staff members but i feel its a bit unfair to downplay their importance or their work.

[ReBoot]

Relying on SteamRep is dumb for a couple reasons. First and foremost, it doesn't mean jack, when trading with someone with a good record there, it doesn't guarantee you won't get screwed over. Be it a hijacked account or a change of heart, "trustworthy" (according to SteamRep) traders scamming people happened in the past and will happen in future. So you have to practice safer trading with them.
Ok, when someone's got a bad record, you can deny trading for the prrinciple's sake, but you get notified of your trading partner possibly being a scammers by Steam anyway. That, and there's no downside in trading with scammers as long as you practice safer trading.

Ine way or another, safer trading is imperative. But that makes SteamRep absolutely pointless.

That, and there have been cases in the past (granted, no ideal whether they improved their judgment) of them not checking reports. Someone has the same name as you and is a scammers? Have some bad SteamRep cred because the guys & gals running it are incompetent.

Wait, I was wrong with the last one. The OP shows they're still the incompetent morons they were years ago. One more reason to ignore SteamRep entirely.

Come the ♥♥♥♥ on, how's blaming people without evidence not obviously evil?

[AmsterdamHeavy]

Автор сообщения: Zetikla

Автор сообщения: Zekiran

Steam rep is not anything to do with Steam.

It's a bunch of people patting themselves on the back.

Pay them absolutely no mind.

bunch of people patting themselves on the back


yeaaah i dont wanna be rude but i hope you realise that those people take their free time just to help keeping the community as free from scammers and phishers as possible

SR isnt perfect and they are in painful need of more staff members but i feel its a bit unfair to downplay their importance or their work.

If they ban people purely on association, then they are a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ "service". Period. End of.

You cannot talk around that in any way.

[WolfEisberg]

What the Heck is SR Banned?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Автор сообщения: Eisberg

What the Heck is SR Banned?

Read the OP.

[Your Mom's Oshi]

I can't believe that people actually take that site seriously. It will probably be sold to some scammers by the end of the year.

[Aachen]

All that aside, why is this the place to ask about the policies amd methodology of some site not controlled or administered by Valve here? Don’t they have forums .... social media .... people in the know to interview over the phone? Something?

[Your Mom's Oshi]

Автор сообщения: Aachen

All that aside, why is this the place to ask about the policies amd methodology of some site not controlled or administered by Valve here? Don’t they have forums .... social media .... people in the know to interview over the phone? Something?

You want to be looking at their site for that stuff. Asking here is pointless since it really has nothing to do with Steam besides being fake police that nobody asked for.

[Aachen]

Автор сообщения: idontexist

You want to be looking at their site for that stuff. Asking here is pointless since it really has nothing to do with Steam besides being fake police that nobody asked for.

I really don’t, but the OP probably should.