"Accused was banned"

The user is flagged as banned on SteamRep. This not only flags their profile for anyone who looks them up before a risky trade (which you should always do), but it also bans them from community sites/servers that use the banlist. This would be sites like tf2outpost, dota2lounge, csgolonge, etc, etc. A large number of community-oriented trade sites leverage our API and ban list in some way.

No.

Although the majority, if not all, the sites with banners on https://steamrep.com/ use it.

Dota2Lounge is listed there- they are owned by the same people and its basically the same site.

1. D2L is bigger.
2. Any community or server that uses SteamRep's public API may restrict users from accessing or using their servers or their sites based on information that SteamRep provides, which includes whether a user has been marked or not by SteamRep or a partner community.

Go on both sites and click on their respective social media followers. Granted that csgol performs slightly better on Twitter and VK, the platform with the most followers, Facebook, tracks CSGOL at 246,000~ likes and D2L at 736,000~ likes.

No actual forms of measurement unless @n33dweed can come around and help clarify.

And since both sites are under the same brand, we'll probably just stick with what the site owners signed up with in the first place.

Thanks for spotting that, I've changed it!