Don't forget we easily get over a thousand reports a day (about one every 3 seconds), so we don't have time to warn everybody about their actions. When it comes to offenses, the question isn't so much "Does it break the rules", but "Does it harm other users/the site".

If someone reports someone saying "lol" or "lowballer" once, we will almost certainly ignore the report. OP can just hide it and move on. If they keep posting it, that's when we take action.

Ah ok, because its just fustrating, especially the ones that add you to waste your time, you get into a trade window only to find out they thought you were paying 8 refined for a craft hat because they only looked at the @%# pictures! They of course remove you in a hurry because they are "offended" or whatever so you don't even have a chance to tell them to read notes.

I don't think hiding it actually sends the message though. Since you aren't allowed to go into their trades to tell them to stop, there is basically no correction possible, and if you hid it before you thought to comment on the thing, theres no fix for that either. The price commenter with empty backpack doesn't care, he expects to be hidden or ignored, so the message that its an infraction or against the rules doesn't get through unless an admin gets to them to warn them or something.

I guess the harm is in wasting everyones time, by the time one person reports who knows how many peoples time these types have wasted.

So if the admins are overloaded, is it against the rules if I politely explain to these people in their trade that its against the rules to price comment? or is that also an infraction. Sometimes I do hide in haste....so no other reply is possible

If they post a pointless comment complaining about your price, just hide it. If they re-post it so that it can be seen, report it, and mention in the notes that you've already hidden this post once/twice before, and they'll be dealt with.

It's also fine to remind them of the rules, just don't do it in the traditional "red ruls or u get report" style, it's hardly an appearance we want to cultivate.

ok thanks

yea i know what do you mean, i usually have few guys like that posting on my trades every day , i usually BLOCK them on tf2outpost so they cannot post anymore on any of my trades. now i'll try to be smarter as i already got banned 2 times already because of being rude to those brainless people.

as u say, they usually have less than 10games, few trades on tf2op, few items in bp. we need a kind of filter for those.

I like when people say they want 3 ref then you read they want 4 ref.