Justified?
Did you use a script for the comments? Or maybe Valve just assumed it, if the comments were similar all the time.
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I have to admit, yes. I've been using a script that I wrote to automate the trade feedback process. Once I complete a trade on barter.vg it would automatically leave a comment on steamtrades and steam with trade feedback. That feedback message was similar for every user, but it was personalized with the trader's name and a link to the trade.
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Well, for me that's nothing bad. I was just curious about your comment after our trade, but in a positive way. Scripts/bots might be a reason for a such a ban. But as others already assumed, Valve probably only noticed this by reports of users, since the traffic/load itself shouldn't be noticeable for them. xD
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You're making a huge mistake though. Steam profile +rep may not be trustworthy, but it's not useless. There are many people that don't use steamtrades and will only check your profile +rep to decide if they'll trade with you. Anyway, I doubt that steam would ban you for this, although posting links to other people's profiles is not advised. Maybe someone reported you?
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Possible. I also sent reminder comments to people with pending trades on barter.vg. Maybe somebody got really annoyed by it and reported me. Actually, there is a lot of people that don't like me for reasons... So who know.
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You mean pending trades as in accepted or ones they simply didn't reply to?
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Doesn't make sense, unless maybe multiple users reported you? Are you sure the users to which you left a comment on their profile were okay with you doing this, or they were just random traders?
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Possible. I also sent reminder comments to people with pending trades on barter.vg. Maybe somebody got really annoyed by it and reported me. I've been using a script that I wrote to automate the trade feedback process. Once I complete a trade on barter.vg it would automatically leave a comment on steamtrades and steam with trade feedback. That feedback message was similar for every user, but it was personalized with the trader's name and a link to the trade.
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how the hell is your profile so empty without being private? i've never seen such a blank profile before like that.
but still otherwise, that is very strange. i've never heard of people actually being banned for spam before.
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In case people think I am trying to hide a different reason:
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no i believed you, i just went there to see if it was a public visible community ban similar to the way VAC is, and it seems it's not since it's only temporary. but i'd just never seen a profile empty like that without any "Recent Activity" or things like that.
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I think your page just didn't load properly, for me his profile looks just like a usual private one
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except it is not tagged with "Private Profile" anywhere. xD
seems it's just apart of the community ban to make public profiles appear as if they are private.
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Private profile, but you spam trade feedback? Bit weird imho.
Anyways, as your own support message shows, you're not banned for the feedback, but plainly for the amount of spam.
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it's not actually private profiled.. seems that is a side effect of the community ban.. i thought that was extremely weird too though.
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Private profile is only a result of the community ban. Yes, there was a large amount of trade feedback, since I did a lot of trades:
https://barter.vg/u/48e/o/?filter_by_status=completed
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You dont get a community ban for just spamming. You need to scam, spam, hack and insulting others to just get a forum ban. I never heard someone got a community ban never mind for just spamming.
EDIT: I still can send you a friend invite so it didnt looks like you have a community ban.
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except they did. ;)
there's a screenshot replied to me about it showing "Reason: Spam" xD
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Oh okay, thats wow. But I still think he did a bit more than just spamming.
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yeah, i think it had something do with the script he created to automate the +rep of others. steam sees anything automated like that as breaking TOS for some lame reason. i understand when it's genuinely spamming advertisements to people via some automated process, but i guess they just lumped this situation in with those anyways. kinda lame of steam there since it should be fairly apparent it's a valid +rep just done via automation.
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I honestly think added links to that message also contributed. Others are convinced it was caused by user reports, which I can't rule out.
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yeah, probably a combo of a couple of reports with the link honestly. i doubt just one or the other would of done it by itself, but the combo may have.
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Of course you can still send me a request. I am the one that can't send any request anymore. You don't believe I am community banned?
https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198042965266
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Steam being crap strikes again.
Oh well, I've also been permanently banned from the community. And support? They just cower over for the moderators. Little instable shit-tower.
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Damn, permanently? That really sucks. 1 Week is nothing, I am still lucky.
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On another account, or what? Your account looks 'normal'.
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You have been permanently banned from all discussions.
You were banned by a Steam Community Moderator.
Reason: "Insults / Ignoring Past Warnings"
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once i got banned with the reason "telling lies" :'D
most mods on steam are just retards, nothing more to say... :)
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it's gabens payback for removing group announcments. :P
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i think the reason is purely the fact that your bot posts the same exact comment over and over, doesn't matter that the name or link is different since it's 90% the same.
try making the bot post +rep good trade or some short and stupid comment, see what happens
i'm genuinely curious what their flag is, if it is volume related (you said something like you did 25 trades +post a day)? or content. my vote is on content.
edit: no clue about posting from a private profile, why would that matter if friended. i think that's a red herring.
how exactly does your bot make the post? is it using some backdoor console commands?
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Well, I just watched how normal posts are made and what http request it made and simulated that. The problem is steam security is pretty strong for that. I couldn't use gm_xmlHttpRequest for it, like you normally would for cross-domain requests. Steam blocked those. I had to use an iframe workaround that would pass the messages and steamids as url parameters and let the userscript listen to that. I am curious about the trigger too. There are many things to consider. Maybe I got reported, maybe the comments were indeed too similar, maybe it were the links to the same domain in every post that triggered it. I have been posting reminder comments on steam profiles with the exact same message to people with pending offers on barter. That is more likely to have triggered it. Anyway, lesson learnt. I will be more careful in the future.
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I got the ban the same day you got. I got the same ban, i dont have any posting bots, i doubt asking in support WHY helps because 1st 2-3 month you get bots answers. If you happen to get answers from support post them here
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Nah, I won't even bother to try Steam Support. As you said, they won't even respond within a week (excluding automated responses), so it doesn't matter. However I did raise a ticket asking them for the reason, but I closed it after I found out it was my steam comments that triggered it.
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So is that the reason why your profile looks so blank?
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This has been happening a lot lately for CS:GO keybots at least, so now they moved down on the list to single users already.
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Most of Valve is out of the office for Easter/spring break now so any support tickets won't be looked at anyways. Hmm...Perfect, let me grab my gas can and handful of matches. brb ;D
THEY WILL FEEL THE REVOLT
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A bunch of samey messages with links screams bot trying to fuck over people so not surprising you were temp banned.
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Sure but this is the kind of situation an automated system would do it then you would contact support to solve since it is only a tiny amount of honest people caught in comparison to the spam prevented. Except Steam doesn't have one which is the actual issue here.
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only in the sense that both of those contain the word ban :P
that could be considered a vague call-out though, since it's not what was brought up
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So, yesterday I received a message from Steam that I have been banned from the Steam Community for 1 week with reason "spam". It was very vague and I didn't understand. Today I have discovered that comments with trade feedback on steam profiles of people whom I traded with are removed. Other steam profile comments are still there. So, that must have been the reason. I can understand how it was triggered. I've been traded a lot recently and left a lot of trade feedback on steam. That feedback also includes links to the trade details, like the barter.vg trade link. So that could have been considered advertisement. Anyway, let that be a lesson kids.
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