Over 100 invites from bots in less than 24 hours.

[[ACE] Dimaleth]

Are you ♥♥♥♥ing kidding me, Steam?!

So I wasn't selling anything on the market except some trading cards for like the last 2-3 months and I only got maybe 5 invites in that time. Yesterday I've put a CS:GO knife on the market and I already got over 100 invites from bots and multiple comments on my profile containing dangerous links in less than 24 hours!

[wuddih]

Publicado originalmente por Ernest Shaves Christmas:

Not sure if anyone brought it up yet, but making your profile friends only doesn't fix it. The bots still get you.

I'm thinking they have a database of words corrosponding with the items so the bots can find and add anyone who has that item.

they simply use the picture, which is still there, to locate your profile.

so the only solution is to completely hide the seller.

[Misha]

You should at least lock the comments to friends only to dodge the annoying spam and the rest is up to you.

[Sparse Dunes]

Pretty much what Misha said. If someone came into your profile with the incentive to trade let them use the trade offer.

[[ACE] Dimaleth]

Publicado originalmente por Misha:

You should at least lock the comments to friends only to dodge the annoying spam and the rest is up to you.

Publicado originalmente por Sparse Dunes:

Pretty much what Misha said. If someone came into your profile with the incentive to trade let them use the trade offer.

Why won't I also ask Steam support to delete my account just to be sure.

It shouldn't be up to us. With the amount of money Steam makes it is mind boggling and offensive to me as a consumer that they simply ignore this problem. One would think that happy consumer is an important part of successful business. I guess Gabe disagrees. With such anticonsumer attitude Valve eventually will start to loose customers. I personally looking forward to see how GOG'g upcoming client will turn out. And I hope EA will make a lot of much needed improvements to Origin as soon as possible. Those two companies, as much as you might hate EA, are far more consumer friendly than Steam.

[Doug Dimmadome ツ]

this isnt steams problem . its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ man kind. if we werent so greedy and stubborn nothing would be like this. its all the greedy bastards who want everyones stuff that take the time to make these things to suck up peoples inventories and steal their items. humans are peices of ♥♥♥♥

[imelman]

Nethier,private/friends only or not,bots will target you anyway.
But i noticed that people block private/friends only profiles just because you don't like bots.
Oh well,and people going really weird with privacy and who block and who don't.
But,bots will mostly target you if you own expensive items like knifes,or just you high type person.
Then people say lvl 10+ or be blocked...Somewhat understandable,somewhat not.

[The Longest Rose]

Valve has profiles showing in "recent activity" for items still.

[Ineffable Anathema]

Publicado originalmente por Cannoneer_D:

Are you kidding me?! I don't get paid by Valve to work on this issue, and even I can come up with a few ways to fight this problem off the top of my head. Like disabling the ability to add people for at least level 0 profiles and profiles with 0 games.

There are these things called indie bundles, which are bundles of games (often with Steam keys) which can be purchased for almost nothing and often even farmed for cards to boot, giving any scammer/hijacker plenty of leveling and games on each account they don't really care about for very little investment.

[supertrooper225]

Publicado originalmente por Cannoneer_D:

Publicado originalmente por Misha:

You should at least lock the comments to friends only to dodge the annoying spam and the rest is up to you.

Publicado originalmente por Sparse Dunes:

Pretty much what Misha said. If someone came into your profile with the incentive to trade let them use the trade offer.

Why won't I also ask Steam support to delete my account just to be sure.

It shouldn't be up to us. With the amount of money Steam makes it is mind boggling and offensive to me as a consumer that they simply ignore this problem. One would think that happy consumer is an important part of successful business. I guess Gabe disagrees. With such anticonsumer attitude Valve eventually will start to loose customers. I personally looking forward to see how GOG'g upcoming client will turn out. And I hope EA will make a lot of much needed improvements to Origin as soon as possible. Those two companies, as much as you might hate EA, are far more consumer friendly than Steam.

Steam cannot do anything about the bots or scammers. You ban them and they come right back. This is nothing new. I can tell you one method that has worked for me. Stay away from all multiplayer games with items and make your profile private. Since I know you don't want to do that, you will have to put up some effort to keep them away. If EA gets multiplayer games with items like these MOBA games or CS... they will also have the bots. And if they have 7 million customers...that live chat line they brag about will cease to be live from the same stuff.

What people need to do is stop getting scammed. Then this would never have become an issue. Valve is not anti-consumer because you can't stand being inconvenienced by people on the internet. And that will ALWAYS happen. Learn to live with it or avoid those games like I do. If it isn't scammers or bots it is trolls. People are the problem there, not Steam.

[[ACE] Dimaleth]

I noticed an interesting pattern. I only get invites when my cs:go knife on the market is the first on the list. My knife wasn't the first on the list for about 15 hours now, and I didn't get any invites.

[Paintbrush Poltergeist]

Don't worry, I get tons too. They also try and add people in my friends list and scam them aswell.

[wuddih]

Publicado originalmente por Cannoneer_D:

I noticed an interesting pattern. I only get invites when my cs:go knife on the market is the first on the list. My knife wasn't the first on the list for about 15 hours now, and I didn't get any invites.

well, bots are bots.