To all coal farmers: enjoy your ban.

Haters gonna hate. :D

Valve won't ban anyone, the Russian who got suspended got perma-banned for 10 weeks from trade, and that's all! (and they removed his farmed items of course).

I mean it's wrong and unfair. Look at this dude/chick: http://w01.freezepage.com/a/13252/46675ZIOMZGDNPD/0 .
This person had about 1001 games and a heck load of coupons and a lot of tradable games in their inventory. Good thing the account has been banned, apparently the total woth was $8,000. She could've been rich, but I honestly think she abused with the Humble Bundle fraud, as the last comment notes.

Oh, come on. Like the Black Lung wasn't sucky enough.

i got banned too from the forums.. cause i have much friends, they dont even use steam but they had maked a account to give me some coals and so on... wtf.. steam does not know how much persons are in my home and are makin a account... fuckin stupids... 10 people can make anaccount from 1 ip adress... so what the hell steam... i consider my lawyer.. thats against german rights

And if someone have BIG family?

-I swear! I had no idea what was in those gifts! I'm innocent!
-You were scumming third party games, captain.
-Fine, keep the games. Just give me back my account!
-Hey, whats wrong?
-I sense... a great darkness.
-GABE EMPIRE HAS RETURNED

If only Valve was as excited to make HL3, as they are to ban.

Sadly, discipline is something that only seems to be successfully implemented on people through force. I personally wouldn't mind seeing all these greedy exploiters and low-lives getting their thousand-dollar accounts permanently deactivated.

The only ones to blame here for the mess are the people who tried to take an advantage over something significantly cool Valve did (A games store literally handing out free games to people?). They made their event completely free to enter and participate, and people just tried to take as much as they could glitch out of their system and profit over that through trading and other means.

And to think they still have the huge amount of guts to say something like "They don't have the right todo that! This is so unfair!" after something bad happens only makes me want to maul a kitten. Some people just want to watch the world burn. You people should feel ashamed.