Well well well..
This is what you have all been waiting for, I know a large amount of you hate blackened and this community, so this is going to be like porno to your earlobes.
A little back story into me first:
I'm an ex shark, I have been trading for about 3 months now. I found tf2-trader back before I even had an unusual, and purchased a cancer flies football helmet (oh you will be missed), just so I could stay in the server and suck up any knowledge these cool "hat masters" could give me at the time.
In this 3 months, I have been a solid regular in that server, being there for hours every day, so in that time span I have learned who is trustworthy, who is sharking and whatnot. Weeks before BLACKENEDS search came out, the admins there were talking about the search, and how glorious it is. Mudguts would always praise how he was going to get a flies sniper hat so easily, and BLACKENED would babble on about how he just got a flies snaggle for a game or two. About a week before the search actually came out, BLACKENED would instigate it by giving us some profiles of noobs with low hours, and tell us to stock up on keys + games to make sharking easier. He flat out told us that it's a shark tool, and that he wanted us to use it for such. While all of this was happening, he convinced us who didn't know that sharking was okay. He would always say that you can't get steam banned for sharking, and that the community has accepted it pretty much (which I found out was wrong, the community part).
So a few days rolls by, and his shark search comes out a little early. Yay! shark time!. So what do I do? Look up all the people with 100 or less hours on tf2 with an unusual. Hmmm, this is weird.. ALL these people with unusuals and low playing time have been added by Blaster.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/blaster210/inventory/
Not only did Blaster add every single noob, he told those noobs to block and delete anyone else adding them because they were scammers. So after blaster has sharked about 10-15 unusuals in one day, Longfellow finds out about blasters sharking, and he does the right thing and reports blaster to all the trade websites. Longfellow was able to pin him down and prove that he traded a few stranges for an unusual.
Before the reporting, BLACKENED was well aware of Blaster sharking, and even asked ME to ask blaster to give him some free stuff (in which I did, blaster gave nothing) I felt bad for BLACKENED a little since he would always cry about not having money, so I gave him a planets safe and sound, a green energy buckaroos, and 1 bud
ALL FOR FREE. You would think after helping someone out like that, that they would help you in return right? Not.
Hell, even I have a 1k VISA bill to pay, with barely any money in the bank, I just felt it was the right thing to do at the time.
So fast forward a few weeks. His admin Mudguts is constantly abusing his power on the server, which I have reported to BLACKENED many times, always with the answer "I trust whatever mudguts does".
Well yesterday cut the straw, I called one of mudguts' friends a "Noob" jokingly, in which the guy lashed out and thought I legit had a problem with him. I told him it was a joke, and to drop it but he was still mad. The next day I logged on tf2, and he would join every server I went on (sending me threats, saying he can do much more than I think to me, so on). I didn't think much of it, but screencapped it anyway to show Suttles at the time (who banned him off outpost for it).
Here's the screenshots:
My internet shuts off while I'm talking to suttles about it, that's odd. I go and reset my router, my modem all the regular things when your internet cuts off. It comes back on for about 10 seconds, then internet cut off again.
I was resetting my modem every 15 seconds for about 15 minutes, it was stupid, It was pretty obvious what this guy was doing. He was messing with my connection, so what do I do? I call up my ISP and tell them exactly what's going on and ask them what is being done to my internet. They told me that my connection was being attacked with thousands of packet requests, and they had to block the attacks coming in. This was most obviously a DDOS attack from DEATHSTALKER (Mudguts' good friend, and guy who got mad at me)
So I go into the TF2-TRADER server and tell them all about what just happened, meanwhile I am saying this, the DEATHSTALKER guy is spycrabbing with the TF2-TRADER admins. I made a thread on their forums showing all the screenshots, and all the proof I had, including his outpost link which just got banned.
One of their admins was about to ban him, until Mudguts (DEATHSTALKER's friend) steps in and says "No, that's absolutely no proof, be on your way". To which I reply "If that's not proof, I am done here" in which Mudguts started crap talking me and told me to prove the DDOS with his IP (which is ridiculous).
So after that, I told mudguts he can suck my dick and to ban me off the server forever. BLACKENED, you should not confide in people who you don't care about, and admit all your sharkings to. If you were going to do that, atleast be a little loyal to the people who helped you.
With that being said, FUCK TF2-TRADER, fuck their shady ass admins, and FUCK mudguts (but don't tell him this to his face, he might DDOS you)
Sorry if any of my grammar is bad, or if I've been rambling for too long, I am just pissed off and feel that everyone needs to know about this.
More to come as I remember.[/b]
Originally Posted by Ziltoid_23
I've gotta say though, I'm not sure how much good an shark tag will do, because the people who get sharked aren't the kind of people who check someones rep and such, thats why it happens in the first place. They don't know the unusual trading community, prices and so on, so people take advantage of that. Identifying those people to the trading community won't help the people getting sharked because they simply don't know about these things.
