Basically if you invite too many friends it will say you have to wait a couple of days before you can invite new ones.

Originally posted by @sph@lt:

Basically if you invite too many friends it will say you have to wait a couple of days before you can invite new ones.

Thanks mate, so it only affects the phishers/bots, nice

What is the limit before you have to wait? I also wonder how this will affect dota2lounge with their betting bots.

IIRC it's 5 adds per couple hours or something like that.

Originally posted by norby89:

IIRC it's 5 adds per couple hours or something like that.

Thanks

So this is the reason when i want to add somebody and i receive this error?

"Error adding friend. Please try again."

Originally posted by eddy:

So this is the reason when i want to add somebody and i receive this error?

"Error adding friend. Please try again."

This message shows up when the other party has blocked you.

This is the new message: http://i.gyazo.com/cf97205891c6b2399f6385204bb64a17.png

So this why the invites from phishing accounts have stopped

Originally posted by norby89:

IIRC it's 5 adds per couple hours or something like that.

That's ridiculous. What if I'm searching through Outpost for items for my collection and find a bunch of people I want to add? Another brilliant move by Valve.

It is much better then being bambarded with phishers. This is the problem, when Valve does something to help it is never good enough for certain people. Atleast 50 threads were made within the past weeks about people wanting the problem fixed. There. Done.

Originally posted by solaris32:

Originally posted by norby89:

IIRC it's 5 adds per couple hours or something like that.

That's ridiculous. What if I'm searching through Outpost for items for my collection and find a bunch of people I want to add? Another brilliant move by Valve.

Recognizing patterns of behavior within a closed system isn't hard, let something as repetitive as phishing, but I guess valve took the lazy way out and basically punished everyone instead. They really have to sink more resources into their network which is constantly over loaded and stuff like this phishing stuff... instead of nonsense like their steam machine.

Other companies are able to recognize faces now, and valve can't even recognize a phisher....

Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™:

Originally posted by solaris32:

That's ridiculous. What if I'm searching through Outpost for items for my collection and find a bunch of people I want to add? Another brilliant move by Valve.

Recognizing patterns of behavior within a closed system isn't hard, let something as repetitive as phishing, but I guess valve took the lazy way out and basically punished everyone instead. They really have to sink more resources into their network which is constantly over loaded and stuff like this phishing stuff... instead of nonsense like their steam machine.

Other companies are able to recognize faces now, and valve can't even recognize a phisher....

Exactly.

Originally posted by HappyStix™:

It is much better then being bambarded with phishers. This is the problem, when Valve does something to help it is never good enough for certain people. Atleast 50 threads were made within the past weeks about people wanting the problem fixed. There. Done.

Its about standards. Look at how broken trade offers are now, half the time you can't send or accept them. The trade system fails maybe 25% of the time. Same with marketplace. And market place has a "search" which is so unsophisticated that if you type in sticky instead of stickybomb, it will fail to yield a result...

How often does google fail to load up?

How many days a year does your electricity go out?

If your utility company was as reliable as valve is, you'd go entire months a year without power.

This isn't a new problem hitting a fledgling company we would have to give some consideration for. These problems have existed for years.

That's ridiculous. What if I'm searching through Outpost for items for my collection and find a bunch of people I want to add? Another brilliant move by Valve.

Ask them to add you, or use trade offers. You might get a lot of errors but it does work, sometimes even better than normal trades.

Originally posted by norby89:

That's ridiculous. What if I'm searching through Outpost for items for my collection and find a bunch of people I want to add? Another brilliant move by Valve.

Ask them to add you, or use trade offers. You might get a lot of errors but it does work, sometimes even better than normal trades.

It doesn't work well enough to be a replacement. First of all theres no quick notification of a trade offer, people can go hours if not longer and not notice because you have to manually check, so it wastes peoples time to have to always resort to trade offers when offers should be the last resort. But as you said the trade offer doesn't work sometimes, well., it doesn't work a lot of the time, and when that happens it wastes a lot of your time again. Lots of baby sitting to get things done on the system, and this solution does make it worse.

Though I do like the side effect where people who mass add without reading get slammed, but in the end the negative effects of such simplistic method of dealing with phishing are worse than what it cures.