What's the point of putting +rep on profiles ?

So that I would have more +rep than you.

It matters, people who trade check on that to see if the trader is trustworthy. I don't trade myself, but some friends of mine do.

not everyone trades in steamtrades and the only way to see if they can trust you is by your reputation in your profile

Profile with +rep is more trustworthy than profile without them.

Most likely tradition. Same as how people put A++++++ on an ebay feedback. It's copied and then mimicked until it becomes tradition and routine. There is also -rep showing that you were not trustworthy. It's easier for the eye to just scan a profile and catch the +rep -rep rather than reading the whole post.

I certainly wouldn't put any value in it. I even find it a little off putting, like it would mostly be scammers that wanted it there. I guess if you check the posters and they look genuine then you could have some trust, but it's a bit like eBay not keeping score of feedback, allowing anyone to post it and letting you delete anything negative.

I put +rep for lazy people that don't want to read a comment lol... so they'll just look at +rep or -rep.

I have no idea myself and consider it as both useless and inaccurate. People do it from time to time on my profile, or even ask me to do so, but I fail to see how this doesn't make you a scammer.

Only thing that works is Steamrep.

Easy. try to sell a activation code for a game on steam without high rep.

you will find it next to impossible for someone to trust you at that.

But a 80+ rep is different.

In my experience, i have enough rep, game time and games to be a middle man for low0tier-off-Steam-transaction, worthless than 20 USD value. But the top notch trader, the one with 5000 USD golden baby roshan in my country, can easily get high rep and be a middle man for up to 500 USD or more.

On steam profiles it's just spam, very easy to fake.

on steamtrades, if i had to go first in a trade, i would much more trust someone with 300+rep over someone with only 2+rep

on steamprofiles, +rep means nothing really

What is life?

i see it as more of a tradition. i sure as hell don't trade only through steamtrades, that's too small public to see my trades. and believe it or not, it helps. because you can check who posted +rep comments on your profile. if you have comments from big scale traders, then i assume you should have some trust?

and i bought 2 steam keys yesterday, people didn't mind going first because of my rep. so yeah, it helps.

let know others thatm a users is trusty , maybe?

since +rep on profiles means nothing as it can be faked, i view it more as a 'courtesy' post between traders when a trade goes well.

steamtrades rep is useful for gauging the trustworthiness of traders though.

+rep for this post (:

-rep for this post.

+rep on a profile doesnt mean much since all the -rep can just be deleted. If trading with a high-profile steam celebrity sometimes it's neat to have public praise, but I just delete all the reps people leave me. I can point to my steamtrades if I have anything to prove.

I also try not to post a bunch of comments on peoples steam profiles because sometimes you'll get random notifications when other people comment (even if they're not your friend anymore) -- at which point I delete my +rep comment lol

putting +rep on profiles is pointless

A cursory glance should give you an idea of how often the person trades. It can be faked of course, but someone really needs to go overboard with alt accounts to make it look realistic.

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I never thought about it but I only do it because I saw everyone else doing. I would much rather just press a button to uprate their rep with no comment necessary. Well if its a negative rep then maybe comment included but no need for comment on positive rep.

It mean nothing, people can delete "bad" messages on their profile so you always see only +rep etc...

I didn't know this some time ago, and i got scammed from a guy, lost my bf3 key :(