Your opinion on steam comment rep?

I have never once trusted comments on Steam profiles, will never will and can't understand why anyone would think this is a legit way to tell if someone is trustworthy...

I'm with jbond, that stuff doesn't count towards trustworthiness. Had someone in the past asking for rep for rep on Steam profiles. Got himself a whole ****ing ton of +rep posts. Now the account be scamming.

Sadly lots of people on the steam forums run things like "giving away a knife to enter write +rep on my profile" and will get rep that way

+rep comments on profiles mean NOTHING, because it's public comment wall, anybody can post anything there, and owner can delete comments as he wishes, which means it's NOT objective in ANY way.

If you trust someone because he has +rep on his steam profile then you'll sooner or later learn in the hard way why you should not.

Over the years I've had a lot of random people just give me profile +rep, probably hoping for +rep in return (fake rep). Also people ask for +rep in giveaway descriptions on occasion.

It's pretty useless and I don't bother with it anymore in trading unless someone asks for it. SteamGameSwap, SteamGifts and others have their own rep system in place. Last I knew, for cash trading SouceOP rep was king.

Yeah, profile rep mean nothing, you can get it so easily, I even have some and I don't trade. You can also delete bad rep so what's the point?

I used to rely on profile reps back before I discovered SteamGifts. Thankfully I never got scammed, since usually the people I'd trade with would be level 40+ and have pages of reps from other similiarly high levels (rather than a bunch of fake, private profiles).

Ever since joining here though, I realize how flawed it is to rely on Steam comments. I have a handful of +reps on my Steam profile for swapping duplicate cards with people, which isn't any indication of trustworthiness.

Trading is a community, not a hierarchy. reps are only useful when it comes from people you know dealing with people you don't know. They're not for pressuring users with less experience like many asshole traders (and thus the scammers) use them for. So yes, they're pretty much useless.

steamrep, ok.
steamgifts, ok.

steam comments, useless.
can be faked and all bad rep can be removed by the profile owner. makes no sense.

I cannot and will never understand why people will believe in such an asinine system, excluding the new Steam users. The rep system reminds me of the Dark Ages, where people thought the sun revolved around the earth and the idea that God will cure a person's dysentery. To even think of why someone would believe the rep system is a trustworthy source will kill my brain cells. My skull will crumble when I place my hand on my forehead. My soul will wither away; my body will be a hallow shell of flesh and bone.

I don't trade + No.

Doesn't do diddlydick to make me trust someone.

Never traded once in my life and don't plan on starting now either.

Any logical person with a brain would be able to deduce that + rep means nothing.

I can also get my other scammer friends to + rep my profile to fool people.

People seriously need to wake up with stupid shit like this and I have no sympathy I am afraid for them should they get scammed based on believing that + rep means something. LOL

Rep is useless unless it's verifiable. Steam comments and yes, steamgifts rep are both equally useless. As is anywhere you can rep someone without some form of trustworthy moderator actually checking the validity of the claim. Hell, even Steamrep is less than a certainty these days but that's primarily because of how slow they are.

Really, the only way is to look a person's profile, see if it looks like something they'd risk a ban on. Look for their previous trades, see if people have had problems before. And even then you are by no means safe when going outside a steam trade window.

They are very easy to exploit. There can be someone with 100's of pages of rep on profile and be a scammer.

There's so many threads like this.

I always link to the groups that give +rep4+rep.

Too lazy to now.

If you get scammed, it's your fault.

While I don't use them as any sort of "guarantee", it's good to check if they happened in few years or just in few days.
If someone has long table of +reps that he received in bunch of years, then it's another point for him. But if all +reps are from one day, then you can start smelling something fishy (unless it's Summer/Winter Sale day :P ) and you'd better keep your guard up.

Useless. One time I got +rep comment on my steam profile because someone won my GA and did it without even asking me if I want something like this xD I deleted it after it was posted.

The profile "+rep" comments have a very limited usefulness, is way too easy to fake.
I normally look at the steam trades rep and the amount of games on the account (I doubt someone would be willing to risk a ban on an account with hundreds of games for a scam). The number of people (and who they are) in their friends list is also kinda useful to judge.