My appeal has been pending for over two years. Something about steamrep needs to change.

http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/76561198001608479-sr-caution.23028/

If there is truly a two year backlog on reports and appeals, then steamrep is completely failing to keep steam trading safe and fair. I still get harassing comments on my profile and on reddit due to my erroneous tag. If it takes admins two years to even touch an appeal, then tags should no longer be given out, because there is no way that they can be kept fair.

I literally just made a post about this, check under you friend. I'm with you.

Love that it's coming from two marked users. Complaints like this were addressed in SR's reddit AMA. Suggest you read up on it.

@DreadPirateFury is marked for having a hijacked account

The other guy, trading with a scammer, that's his fault lol,

That's not what happened. I've never traded with anyone marked. But regardless, no matter the situation, it's sickening that an appeal has been pending for two years with no attention.

fair enoughh

I do believe that steamrep could do more to quickly tag the clear cut scammers - impersonators, invoice senders, and successful scams. (which is why I've been helping in reports, and applied to be a mod)

In general though, steamrep does quite well in notifying users when someone is potentially a scammer. Lots of scammers tagged, and those not yet tagged often have reports against them. I see so, so many people getting scammed by scammers that already have reports against them, it's not that steamrep isn't doing their part, it's that too few people check steamrep.

As you've said and I totally agree with you, self-awareness is the most important thing in safe trading.

A "tip of the day" would go incredibly far in helping to quickly educate traders and help them avoid scams. I think that if steamrep provided the tools & asked the trading communities to participate they could vastly cut down on the number of successful scams and hence reports being made. Messages such as “Invoices aren’t a payment!”, “Profile +reps don’t mean anything!” and “The only way to check an impersonator is with steamid64 & SteamRep!” (with links to more detailed information) would help stop all these scams that rely on users being naive - which is nearly all of them.