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[GIJoe]

focus that energy on compiling evidence so compelling that SR has no choice but to do something

Already been done. Trunk Slam and GIJoe did a ton of work to gather all of that evidence. All for what?

"Ok guys, uh, thanks, we'll use this to give Blackened a warning *thumbs up*"

Fucking pathetic.

I'm not sure if you really looked at their "evidence" but most of it has no significance. They were all trades before the people were marked or they were sharked which sr doesn't deal with. If they have legit evidence that happened after yesterday and actually do the full research. Then they can report it on the steamrep forums.

Here it is: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/r...lackened.1960/

Not sure how it will stand, considering 2 don't have steamrep tags anymore (No idea why ), but at the time they were all marked and on there.

[serialjoe]

interesting, will get more popcorn gonna need it

[MikeV]

Here it is: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/r...lackened.1960/

Outstanding man, I appreciate the time you put into gathering all this stuff.


If they count that towards his "wittle warning", I'm going to flip a lid.

I get the rules and regs of SteamREP, I get it. But there needs to be some updates to it. Not because it's a hate Blackened bandwagon (I actually didn't mind the guy till I starting discovering shit about him when Scorpion was telling me about the document he was making). But because it's just wrong.

I hate when people say "Well Mike, this shit happens everyday, even in the real world". No shit, but when we have the tools, in our own community, to mark people/put a huge dent in their "rings", it pisses me off.

It just seems like you guys are sitting on your hands (to SteamREP). Make Sharking taggable. There's zero reason to not do so. SteamREP, you guys do a great job and keep track of alot of people. It's time to expand and adapt to new tactics used by people to get what they want. I know SteamREP isn't the know all/say all but it's a great start to limit sharks.

[GIJoe]

Here it is: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/r...lackened.1960/

Outstanding man, I appreciate the time you put into gathering all this stuff.


If they count that towards his "wittle warning", I'm going to flip a lid.

I get the rules and regs of SteamREP, I get it. But there needs to be some updates to it. Not because it's a hate Blackened bandwagon (I actually didn't mind the guy till I starting discovering shit about him when Scorpion was telling me about the document he was making). But because it's just wrong.

I hate when people say "Well Mike, this shit happens everyday, even in the real world". No shit, but when we have the tools, in our own community, to mark people/put a huge dent in their "rings", it pisses me off.

It just seems like you guys are sitting on your hands (to SteamREP). Make Sharking taggable. There's zero reason to not do so. SteamREP, you guys do a great job and keep track of alot of people. It's time to expand and adapt to new tactics used by people to get what they want. I know SteamREP isn't the know all/say all but it's a great start to limit sharks.

I appreciate the thanks Mike.......I'd just like to make it clear that I'm not just doing this as Mike puts it to jump on the "hate bandwagon" for Blackened, I intend to produce many more reports because I've realised after this whole fiasco, traders aren't what they seem. There's a lot more deception going on than what I first though, and that's quite disappointing in a community that relies on trust.

I'd like to bring to attention SteamRep's own policy:
"A scammer is anyone that uses deception, thievery, lies, or anything that is underhanded to take advantage of or steal from another trader."

If you ask my personal opinion, sharking falls right into this category. Sharks will actively seek out a "victim" who they know for a fact won't know the price of their unusual, whether it be through unboxing, low hours or otherwise and use that to coax the victim to give their high value unusual to them for super cheap.

[serialjoe]

like ive said before, in my opinion and others that steamrep should add a new tag, meant for people who actively shark others, not a caution an actual tag, like a scammer tag but instead its a shark tag, and something needs to be done, if we want a clean trading area in tf2, its enought with the scamming, and the sharking, we already done something for the scammers, now its time to upgrade to list also the sharks,

[MikeV]

I'd like to bring to attention SteamRep's own policy:
"A scammer is anyone that uses deception, thievery, lies, or anything that is underhanded to take advantage of or steal from another trader."

Solid.

[TheVagtasticVoyage]

Blackened killed my family.