Concerned about the recent integrity of Steamrep

UHC tags are appealable through MCT, but only if they have evidence to prove their innocence, no new evidence means no appeal, especially for people who have appealed before and were denied. Truth be told 99% of the people who have appealed UHC tags so far at MCT have lied about the terms of their ban (as we have information on a large number of old tags from databases preserved during the UHC/UTC transition and the merger for UTC to MCT) or they have flat out admitted to scamming. (we have been auditing a lot of bans and will always continue to do so to make sure any tag handled by MCT is proper)

I'll look into it later when I have time for it, but if you send me on a goose chase on whatever, I will personally put your custom status to something not nice.

is it a thread about Steamrep or another thread trying to shot down GoV people? I'm GoV admin and I dont think starting saying s✿✿✿s about other communities is a good thing. Am I talking shitty about penguin and his tf2shop (that i dont like for many reasons).
About the SR problem you are talking, Helen answered and I think she answered already about that a dozen times.

Now if you want to start a shitstorm about all admins of all trading communities (include SOP TS), no problem.
I just keep thinking that SR staff, Helen, and others are doing a great job, are humans and cant be as efficient as robots...
That's why the appealing section is up, every marked people are free to appeal if they have been marked by mistake...

yeap, she did, in a lot of places.

How would people who've been marked as a scammer for mic spamming on the UHC server get appealed then?

What does this even mean

I agree wholeheartedly with this ideology.

What you want when looking for an admin is someone who used to trade often. If you hire someone who is actively trading they are more prone to be abusing powers just to give themselves an advantage, plus they'll be spending more time on trading than actual administration work. Also, age 18+ or no-go. However:

Call me when SR gives out THEFT/EXPLOIT tags so we can just ban them from using automated services. Until then, don't give them SCAMMER tags, because it's completely misleading. They are ~two different things~.

TF2WH can accept responsibility for the amount of screwups they've done, why can't everyone else?

we have the complete sourcebans import so if the only reason listed is micspam their tag either has already been removed or will be once it discovered. We have not had a single appeal where this is the case though. Every appeal we have had is from someone who has legitimately deserved the tag and it is left in place. Most have so far been using the account accountability claim of "Oh it was my brother on here" or "I didnt know I couldnt rename a pistol to Big Kill and try to sell it" ..... Users have to realize even if they were not the one who did the act on the account they are still responsible for the actions on it.

With that said please keep the thread on topic. This is not about how MCT chooses to handle tags that we have taken responsibility for. Rather for the community to voice it's opinion on the current state of SR and receive feedback on said issue.

That settles it, then. Don't tag exploiting as scamming.

Well I dont claim to know the first thing about the inner workings of steamrep, but I can say this: In steamrep's earlier days, people were targeted and threatened by SR, in some cases. I have seen evidence of certain SR members blatantly attacking people for outrageous reasons. Because of this, the community I belong too had a strong disdain for steamrep. However, not too long ago we gave SR another try. We found that SR had a more diplomatic process, and that there were some who were willing to help us. We have been so pleased with the way SR was run, that we worked quite hard to put the past behind us and mend our relationship with SR. I am still very grateful to Helen and Mattie, who I have contacted the most, for all the help.

But there have also been times that have made me question how loyal I wanted to be with SR. Some affiliate communities have been questionable, and recently some (not long departed) SR admins have been rude, threatening, and otherwise discriminatory to members of my group -- all because they wear this tag.

However, I am realistic that it is not easy for one small group to watch over so many. Despite the discouraging actions some take, I still support steamrep because I believe they do more good than bad. Other communities may have flaws, and SR may fall short at times, but is that really any reason to jump ship? There will always be a bad seed here and there, as long as they are not allowed to continue, then I am satisfied. So thank you Diego, Mattie, You Are The One, daemon, Vintage Cobra, BlueDemon, Pretendeer, Thomas Matthias, CanadianInvasion, Noobinator, and all the Moderators at SR. Keep up the good work.

1. Share these works so we know what you are actively working on, and we can have our say.
2. I thought that was my point?
3. Not sure how it invalidates my other points, it's just another topic I brought up, maybe I should have made it clearer.

lol, you mean the ASBO / Map thing? Where that scammer admin of GHS was running around GHS with a alt. That reminds me, still no idea why the hell his accounts got untagged, he scammed, and afaik, he never repaid. And GHS let HIM be their spokeperson with a totally lunatic idea on copyright.

Back when JAG got affiliated with SR I asked Helen about this. She said that all of these tags had been removed and that if any of them were seen to send them to her and that she would remove them. I'm not sure if that is still happening but I don't see anyone with a tag for panning/spamming. Do you have an example?

Scamming itself is already a "smaller" term then what we cover. For example a false chargeback is technically not a scam but a fraud. Scamming in itself is the "quick act":
- taking items or cash without paying in cash or items.
- quickswitch

While we tag for chargebacks, phishing, impersonation, fake repping, etc, which aren't exactly a scam due time scale or type of action.

So the term "scammer" has a way broader definition here on SR. Defrauding a automated system for a profit, happens to fit the bill. And if tf2wh would report those to us, we will look into it.

Correct. In early days, any bans on associated comm's where given a "Caution tag". I did fight Diego about that rule for a long time (since start actually) but he stood by it (altho it was more heavily even early on with the caution tags, at start it was for any ban, later on only for bans of 2 weeks or longer, due my arguments with Diego). I didn't like them for they had nothing to do with trading and I knew some admins abused them. Only with the GHS story I could finally convince him to drop that rule. (Me banning all GHS admins from ASBO, and therefore all of them got a caution tag). With this, Diego had to concede..

Helen indeed has done a audit on various comm's to remove all those caution tags. If there still exist such, they can contact us to let it remove. but the condition is that the ban must not be trade related. So if the caution tag is part of a appeal ruling on a scammer tag, it stays. Examples that will get removed:
- Trolling
- Spamming
- dislike of avatar by admin
- panning
- etc

As part of that, the caution tags on GHS where also removed.

So changes do happen, altho some take way too long :S.

Ehy guys.
Uhm, I read everything and I tried to understund all the thread, maybe Aces guy said something right, but...

1) I donnow about abusing" a pricing error in the scrap.tf system, or abput the backpack.tf slaps a scammer tag on a fellow for "abusing" a pricing error in their trading card system. I m a bit outmarket from trading in last weeks and I didnt follow scrap.tf, cards market and not even the new effect/hats unusual.
So I cant talk about this.

2) I agree about the slow managment of reports and sometimes it takes months. I know everyone here works as much as he can, but maybe there are few persons for this job. In the past I already gave my availability to handle something in SR.

3) Now, the incomprehensible point : "For a lack of better terms, GoV is a f****** shitty community with admins who buy from scammers (proof below), and run by absolute morons (VenGanza, Tony) .." ?_? So, wtf here? Why we should be a "shitty community" and our admins buy from scammers and... Our "owner" is a moron ????
I will try to be most polite I could be, but I ask to the other admins if this kind of language is something fair here...
Acers, I ask u proof about your heavy and grave words.
Second thing, I really didnt understund why my name is in your post ("we have here Oggun and Fair Killer who have a very nice collection of OG duped items") when u didnt post anything about me above. About Oggun, all the link u posted are just outpost posts... I really dont get the point here.

If the problem is to own duped hats, well mate, maybe you are not so much into unusual trading, if not u perfectly knew that is shitty full of duped hats.
Almost ALL the higher hats are duped, nowaday, and almost any unusual trader (admins included) got some duped s✿✿✿s in his bp.

Someone really care about "clean" hats and dont want at all duped hats. Personally I dont care at all, especially if I wanna keep the hat for myselg, because the nly problem I can see about duped hats is the probably hard to resell.

Totally different thing is to buy from scammers hacked/scammed hats, knowingly (and this also including alt users with 0,1 hours played).
I m pretty sure about our community GoV is out from this behave. I could talk for sure about me, but also about Oggun and Tony that you named and accused in your post.

If you got any proof, please go on to report and mark us.
If the other guys admins here need any help from me, get screenshots history and stuffs, I m open to give u everything u need to defende my integrity.

But if the Aces problem is just a prejudice against GoV, I dont think I could do anything for that..

P.S. Btw your reputation said me that are atually YOU in businness with scammers : http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198000020384
-_-

Regards

the abused item was in reality like a couple cents, but buyprice was set to some like 9 dollar. He "sold" those items, and bought new ones on market, and sold those again to bp.tf for refined, until pb.tf was depleted on refined.