Seriously, F**K YOU STEAM.

This. People report you out of spite if you do not fall for their scam.

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He should blame steam they are providing the product, people will try to abuse rules no matter what the situation, Valve should have proper systems in place to weed out false claims. It is like telling users to blame the hackers after PSN got hacked and bank details got leaked, of course the hackers are in the wrong but Sony should also be responsible for a secure service that functions properly.

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Steam tries to deal with stuff in the easiest way possible.

The warning is automatic if you get enough reports, a trade ban is manual if they find proof of suspicious stuff.

Steam support is fail....
They didn't do any shit about the guy who scammed me....And I gave lots of proof.

No, i heard Gabe Newell himself checks every single report, and judges as he wants. So yeah, it is clearly Steam's fault.

That is correct, I once contacted them after having the same tag due to impersonators and they told me that they cannot remove the tag manually, it'll be automatically removed after 2 months assuming you haven't been flagged an X amount of times before the tag is removed.

Consider how many reports they would have to go through daily for that. Even if it were a manageable number, it would be difficult to investigate them.

Yes.

If someone gets pissed they'll just load up their alts and all report you.

You can try Support. They probably will ctrl+v some bullshit response, but it's worth a shot.

well they don't even have quality controle so what did you expect

Based on your attitude, I think you made some people angry.

Legit scammers...

Yet another reason GoG.com is superior to steam, their customer service is awesome and I strongly suggest that if people can get the game via GoG rather than Steam, to go ahead and do that.I even have some games on both services, having bought/won it on steam then getting it on gog later.

Steam is incredibly poorly run. Seems it's really only doing so well because it has a de facto monopoly. I can never understand why gamers sing Gaben's praises TODAY. He should be commended as a visionary and entrepreneur, but Valve as a whole has clearly grown beyond the man's ability to manage.

yep-comcast-style almost!

Yeah, well, they don't. It's an automated message.

In theory, it would, in actuality they prolly don't have the means to double check very many of the reports they receive.

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I got flagged by some beggar who wanted me to give him my CS:GO items. An automated system only works correctly if no one abuses it, which is never.

Are you that ignorant?

I am happy that steam is warning about scammers, and I don't understand the point of this thread.

I think you have not been doing much reading. Even innocent people like me gets marked as scammer just because some adolescent punk thinks his low ball offer shouldn't be rejected. And I reject literally dozens of offers a day.

Ever notice steam support can't seem to undo anything?

And people complain about the support on SteamGifts...

Why does Steam even allow random users who have had no contact with you to report your profile?

steam support is useless...i contacted them a few weeks ago and got a response completely unrelated to my question as well.

Same,i got another reports on few phisher bots and players,but they closed without response. Even the report against guy with fakerep(asking for it like gimme +rep and such)that you already know useless and means that user is lowballer.

This has gotten me scared for trading that I conduct. I'm fairly certain I've been labeled the same way because I deal with several people with terrible attitudes quite regularly.

The implication that you might be a scammer or someone who has violated the Steam subscriber agreement is completely ridiculous. It doesn't matter how nice you are or how rude, your reputation is out of your hands.

I got the same exact automated reply.

I don't even know how or should I even reply to those idiots.

Copy/paste bastards. Support is probably in some 3rd world country to save a buck, and they have reps who scan support mails for keywords, then check a list of things translated in their language, and then copy/paste back whatever pre-written reply by a native speaker that seems to fit most of the keywords.

Or are in fact just bots themselves.

Umm no, the report feature is not for lowballing or having a bad attitude. It's for rule breakers.

So you're saying even though I did not scam anyone, did not try to scam anyone, I am truly deserving of this? You don't even know how I trade so don't conjure your own story up.

I had that at some point because I wouldn't give my CS:GO items to a beggar who added me. He just rage reported me and probably had a few friends or alternate account do the same.

And sadly, people keep falling for stints like these even now.

Are you serious? What a scumbag.