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Bump, been almost 3 weeks - may I ask if you've spoken to Data yet?

he can't send me a PM on the forum...

also, as it persists, I'll have to refer you to Mattie!, for he does the technical maintenance of the site and forum.

With all sarcasm intended

What does it take to get a vouch from a staff member?

a)cookie
b)bribes
c)befriending them
d)having a cat whale as an avatar
e)a steam game gifted
f)all of the above

Datastorm is fond of catnip, furry plush toys and full cream milk!

Seriously, a vouch from Staff or Community Admins is not something you buy. You know very well reputation in this game is based on time and effort. Being visible on servers, helping others and contributing to the community is not something you can do in a weekend, and no one who is prominent in some way in this game gives out vouches like confetti

In all my time as Admin, I've only really vouched for 1 person, BlackOut Avenger, for I knew him from long before trading ever came out. The vouch was for him to become MM. If you check his Rep thread on SOP, you'll see my first reply there, and directly after a +rep for a ~200 keys MM.

Erm hi, i'm new, i just wanna report who i think might be a scammer. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198024823746/ <-- This guy added me cos i'm buying quicksell unusuals, he offered 3 buds for his hearts drill sergeant and 2 buds for his scorching coupe disaster, which are extreme quicksells. what's more he has 0 hours on any games and only 8 friends, but has the 3 years of service badge. He deleted me after I was afraid that he was a scammer and told him i didnt have enough buds. can you try and check on him? cos i'm afraid other's might be steam rep banned for trading with 'known scammers'. anyway shoutout to admins, great job you guys are doing

He added me too. This guy is kinda shady. I asked him to set his inventory to public...but he didnt agree...i'm almost 99% sure he's a scammer
19:16 - John Lennon: hi, interesting in hearts sergeans for 3 buds?
19:20 - John Lennon: or scorching coupe for 2
19:29 - John Lennon: u here?
19:30 - Krissh™: yep
19:30 - Krissh™: sec
19:36 - John Lennon: interesting in any or no?
19:39 - Krissh™: hearts surgeon?
19:39 - John Lennon: drill hat
19:40 - Krissh™: ur inventory is private...i cannot check ur hat

I've put him on hold for a while.....i told him to give me some time. I hope someone checks him out before he gets rid of those hats.

| steamname: John Lennon
| steamID32: STEAM_0:0:32279009
| steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198024823746
| customURL:
| steamrep: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198024823746

while suspicious, I cant really find any conclusive:

http://backpack.tf/id/76561198024823746?time=1369983600
http://backpack.tf/item/754807201 (notice scammers in history, but old)

"current owner" of the fro:
| steamname: Kaenas
| steamID32: STEAM_0:0:29024804
| steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198018315336
| customURL:
| steamrep: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198018315336

is banned on OP for phishing.

There is no history for the unusual Texas Tin Gallon yet: http://backpack.tf/item/1664066132

He is neither selling fro nor the texas. He's selling hearts drill and scorching coupe and he was quite hesitant about making his inventory pubilc when i asked him to.

his inventory doesn't indicate much of a real trader. My guess would be a (scammer/phisher) alt. Just cant positively prove it at this point

Howdy. I just registered so here is my first question. I checked my own rep and noticed several people on my friends list have these fancy little green titles next to their name like Moderator, Admin or Grand Poo-Baa of one server or another. I have a pretty flawless rep and I admin (and middleman) on numerous servers belonging to DARKLY, tf2Traders.com, Gamers UN, toj.cc and more...so what do I need to do to rate having those fancy little green titles added to my name which seem to indicate a level of extra trust? You can check with VenGanZa and a few others with those fancy green titles on my friends list and they might even be able to think of something good to say about me. BTW, don't get too comfortable...I have a lot more questions to ask coming soon. Thanks and God bless. -Bird

Bird the "green tags" are SR Associate tags. Contact Darkly Admins Bird.

* There are three people in this game I trust would trust my backpack and my life to: HelenAngel, Mudguts and Bird Of Pray.

for green tags you need to be a trade admin on one of the green tagged communities. We only give green tags to trade admins, trade head admins and owner. We do not tag junior admins however, new admins need to be shown around how to deal with stuff and show they've learned to for some time before they get a green tag.

Hey, Just a small question here. Do you get marked as a scammer for trading with marked people, or trading scammed items? A more specific example would be if i sold my unusual to a person marked for spycrab leaving, but the buds were clean, would i be marked as a scammer? Thanks

trading with a scammer will get you tagged caution for first time and scammer on second, with a 1-time appeal lowering it 1 level. A warning may be issued instead, but that may conclude in next such offense to straight to scammer status.

To clarify what Data said, the tags are handled on a case-by case basis.

The general breakdown for what happens is as follows:

Thanks for answering my question, i just had a friend marked for leaving a spycrab and we regularly trade items

one another small "clarification" is that SR is only looking at values of a bills and higher, any money (pp, webmoney, etc), and any unusual trading. so if doing only items below a value of a bills (total) its not really looked into, just only warned for. We just advice to not trade with scammers at all, to prevent whitewashing stolen items, or what they traded those for.

We just trade weapons and hats, i just didn't want to be marked for something as silly as that.