Suggestion- Reduce the backlog.

Although a message saying "Go report to our partner communities" would be great at removing some of the backlog from SR it would cause many problems. Like Mattie said, partner communities don't have the resources to handle anywhere near the amount of reports that SR handles (for instance FoG only has 2 people who handle the scam reports) and if you look at D2T, it's proof that even great communities can't handle anywhere near the reports SR handles.

Also about your idea to promote some mods, there are multiple issues with this including the fact that they might not even want to be an admin in the first place (I know Nero chinki didn't want to be one when he was a mod here)

tbh, I feel like SR could go down the route of not taking reports at all. Forward ALL reports to partner communities and spend your time vetting new communities and the bans all your partner communities make. Where does it say that steamrep is obliged to take reports? It's a requirement of entry to the partner system that partner communities are to take reports and process appeals for tags applied so they already have systems in place for this. Most SR admins are also admins of partner communities anyway so if there's any concern about quality go out the window as long as they pay the same attention to detail.

You don't have to look far to find that the current model is not sustainable at all and unless something extreme is done, there will be no change. Either that or you could continue to eliminate scam types you accept (ala phishers) until SR is so niche that there's no point in checking it anymore.

At the current rate, it wont be much longer until I stop checking sr at all. Profiles are 1-2 years out of date (no matter the reputation on it) and it's a lot to expect people to read report after report in order to find out if someone is a scammer, an unlucky victim of a fake report or whatever other potential scenario there is for their tag (or lack of). Out of date information isn't useful to me and I'm sure it's not useful to anyone else either.

Don't get me wrong, I used to be part of SR and I know it's nobodies fault. I want to see SR do well without me and I know all the admins are awesome!

Something needs to change for it to remain relevant though.

I actually suggested this as well back in my old thread where I pushed the idea for the "pending tags" to be created. I still feel like this could be a good idea, but lately I feel it less and less so.

I didn't mean to sound as if I'm having a dig. I really don't mean it like that. I do believe in SR and I believe in all the staff. I don't believe in the current model as I understand it though - I could be (and most likely am) wrong.

I don't see an issue with the pending reports being there, when there is a falsely filed report. The whole point is that it is a notification, to a user looking at someone's SR status, to let them know they may have committed fraud. There is a button right there allowing them to read the report. If a user is too lazy to check the legitimacy of a report, I know I wouldn't want to be trading with them to begin with.

I feel kind of bad for those users that did a tiny scam or scam attempt like 6 years ago, changed their ways, but are still marked as a scammer.
Some scammers start out as 12 year olds, but they grow up, but are still treated like a scammer if they're marked.

This is hardly an issue and I don't believe in second chances anyway. The issue at hand is the already huge backlog the SR staff has to go face-to-face with eventually. Plus 2014-6=2008. Pretty sure trading was non-existent in 2008 haha.

The biggest crucible right now is that Steamrep is becoming more irrelevant by the minute. The more scammers slip by due to the severe queue SR has built up, the less relevant such system becomes. I really hope we as community, and especially us partner communities, will be integrated into a system where we can help the SR staff fix these issues and finally make the scammer tag mean something again.

stay tuned mattie said?! It has been 2 months yet no changes has been made I recently got marked and payed back about a week ago and I am stil not unmarked. I have spoken to You are the one and he said that it wud take around 6-18 months for me to be unmarked. I have no faith in this website. One can easily get unmarked as easily as he gets marked. The number of people that get marked each day is unequal to the number of appeals that get accepted every week. All you hv to do is just read the evidence given and accept the damn appeal, is it that hard? The backlog MUST be cleared before accepting any more reports, this is just unfair I can get marked 1 day after the report is made but i hv to wait 1 year to get my appeal accepted? this is just stupid, plain stupid

There will always be a backlog, and the time before a appeal will be handled does serve a purpose for us as well. Sure its a bit longer then we want to now, but it will never be handled as soon as the appeal is made, it will always be at least between 3-8 months. Some exceptions will there, but in general that is the minimum.

Don't scam in the first f✿✿✿✿✿✿ place and you would not have this problem now, would you?

The appeal backlog is definitely ridiculous, a large percentage of them probably are irrelevant now as they have just abandoned those accounts entirely, and if they haven't, it isn't likely they are checking here daily for someone to get around to handling their appeal.

Hello @CSGOLounge - ImRainy,

Read this topic: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/appeal-tips.66354/
And please pay special note to the following point(s):
#4: Watch your appeal thread

no need to come back daily.