So a steam community ban ..how it works

[76561198122531442]

to my understanding someone with community ban they cant buy/sell/trade marketable items
cant add friends or delete friends "can still accept friend requests"

They can still buy steam games right ?
can you still gift them games ? or the new steam wallet transfer feature after being friends for 3 days?

[The Emperor Of Mankind]

I dont even think you can do that. I believe , correct me if im wrong that you're only able to play the games you have and cant make further purchases. Im not 100% sure on that though so I will do a little digging. Edit : so , i did some digging and found a guide. If it is accurate is that the above mentioned where you cant buy trade gift etc happens when one violates the SSA.

[Cathulhu]

Depends, a community ban will not keep you from adding friends or buying games. An account suspension on the other hand will.

[76561198122531442]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Cathulhu:

Depends, a community ban will not keep you from adding friends or buying games. An account suspension on the other hand will.

As far as I know its a community ban

and the message on his profile is

Your Steam Community privileges have been suspended for 2 weeks because of multiple bans across several Steam Community Hubs.
Trading, inviting, editing your profile, uploading content, commenting and otherwise interacting with the Steam Community will not be available.

And he wants to add funds to buy games and gift wallet but doesn't want to risk adding it if wont be able to buy

[ploppo]

Someone made a cool guide to all of the bans, etc:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=961168214

[Matt]

To me it seems the most common sense approach to this particular situation is to just wait out the 2 weeks, if that's how long the community ban.

[76561198122531442]

Thanks for the guide but it wasnt 100% crystal clear

2. Steam Community Bans

The Steam Community is a union of all Steam users.
You can find new people with the help of the Steam Community, whom you can befriend, chat with in groups, share screenshots, read news and watch broadcasts. Users who violate the Community Rules and Guidelines will receive bans according to their actions.

So I think they were trying to say that a steam community ban effects all aspects of {LINK USUNIĘTY}steamcommunity.com but has 0 effects on {LINK USUNIĘTY}steampowered.com ? Cuz by its name that would make sense
...also why did i get "Extreme gore/nudity" warning when viewing this guide XD

Początkowo opublikowane przez Matt:

To me it seems the most common sense approach to this particular situation is to just wait out the 2 weeks, if that's how long the community ban.

he sort of wants to buy current hot sale games lol

also to be fair the reason why he was banned is 100% unfair, a guy was trying to buy a game "Portal Knights" and he was trying to help him buy it, but the guy was unsure since the game had an early access exclusive dlc and didnt want to miss out on the game so my friend convinced him the DLC is just a cosmetic island and 0 value to the game and told him to "Download a free demo or free gog version if you know what I mean" so he test it and then buy the game, my friend owns the game, he hates piracy, he doesn't support it at all and has over 1250+ games on steam that he bought, he was just trying to help the guy understand how good the game is in order to buy it "Which seemed to work since he ended up buying it " But then admin gave him perma community ban on that forum and 2 weeks ban

meanwhile I am seeing a lot of people claiming they'll pirate a game or already did and advocate for that low act and none of them gets banned, it really feels very excessive to give him a 2 weeks community ban for that knowing that 1 year ago he received one 24 community ban for trading insults with some salty dota player and that ban was justified though, but shouldn't it go 24 hours and then 1 week ? not 24 hours and instantly for 2 even though its full 1 year difference ....

obviously im not gonna try to get him unbanned or argue about it here cuz I know it wont work, he even contacted steam support and they said the ban was justified but I still think its bs

[h00q]

after lifting ban from community. how many days can i trade?

[Nanami]

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