Suggestion to make things a bit easier for SteamRep and community

I was scammed, like many other people. Unfortunately, being fairly new to trading and scamming through steam, I learned the hard way that it's ridiculously easy for a scammer to destroy evidence by simply un-friend you. I have also learned that this actually a common thing.

So here is my suggestions:
1) Ask Valve (they will listen to you far more than they will listen to me) to grant access to chat logs even if the other person un-friends you. They don't have to store them, just not block you from accessing what is already on your computer.
2) Have a side reputation system a la E-bay, where people can leave positive/negative trade feedback, which is much lower maintenance for you. In the system the user being accused has to fend for himself. While that is not perfect, it certainly helps. This makes it harder for a continuous scammer who know how to work the system to keep doing it to new people. This will not replace the work being done here, but it will make it lighter because scamming will be slowed down.

Someone might get negative feedback unjustified, they will certainly have positive feedback to compensate for it. Of course, if they have a lot of negative feedback, well there probably is a reason for this.

Well, that's my 2 cents.

How does defriending you destroy the evidence?
There's trade logs, steamrep also keeps track of your friend history(as long as you check steamrep while the friend was on your list)

Would be nice if there was a way to get logs, or at least confirm the log.
By confirm, you can copy and paste the text, and it will respond back "Yes this text exists at X time."
This way you know if someone faked text or not easily.

Good advice IMO. Valve still lacks some protections against trade scams. Of course many of this is due to inexperience, as opposed to a children's mental capacity, as an ironically childish admin in another thread stated. However, I still believe that Valve could improve upon their trader protections. JMO.

Not a huge fan of euphemisms...

There is no euphemism used. You just sound like a foolish idiot.

we where talking sop traders, running around on sop for rep and trades.... its a bit different vs noobs that got scammed from their precious items, that simply do not know.

Those traders are already familiar with a forum where trades are done, yet choose to ignore all the informational/rules/guides/etc threads on said forum.