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Nose 2 Feb, 2013 @ 7:50pm
The report system, and how you can help us. (READ THIS)
We, here at outpost, receive thousands of reports a day. And somethings are just ludacrous, whether it be someone reporting a lowball, to reporting a trade that doesn't have "fair" prices.

Here is a small guide on what NOT to report.
1. If someone is relisting, just report ONE of their trades, we don't need you to report every single one, as we look at their TF2OP profile to see what trades they have are actually relisting.
2. If there is an offer you don't like, such as 1 earbud for your max head (a blatant lowball) just hide it, you don't need an admin/mod to close it for you.
2a. If someone lowballs you, don't reply with "Go lowball somewhere else, idiot" or anything of that manner, it will only get you in trouble, just hide the post yourself and move on.
3. A trade that has "unfair" prices, such as earbuds for 26 keys instead of 25 (I have no clue what earbud prices are right now, lets just say they go for 25 keys in this situation, even though, as stated, I have no clue)
4. If someone is spamming your trade, do not report every single spam post, just one, we will go through all the posts and hide what needs to be hidden, and ban who needs to be banned.
5. Do not report someone who isn't breaking the rules. This is self explanitory.
6. Do not say this "This person is a scammer/♥♥♥/♥♥♥♥♥♥/idiot" in your report notes, as it has nothing to do with the actual report, if they are indeed breaking our rules or not.

On a side note, please make sure you take the time to actually read our rules before using our site. They are easy to follow.

Feel free to ask any questions about this small guideline (note: I may add more)
Last edited by Nose; 25 Feb, 2013 @ 4:58pm
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reidefine 2 Feb, 2013 @ 10:30pm 
You guys should ban people who make too many false reports. I.E. sellers that claim they report every offer they think is too low.
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Nose 2 Feb, 2013 @ 11:19pm 
Originally posted by AmuREID:
You guys should ban people who make too many false reports. I.E. sellers that claim they report every offer they think is too low.
Occasionally we do, if they do it alot, if they do it once or twice I give a warning sometimes.
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His Wardship 3 Feb, 2013 @ 3:06am 
You have no idea how many people report their own trade to advertise it to us.

Also, pinning this, went through about 300 reports yesterday, I consider myself fairly strict but only 100 or so had a real purpose.
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Baloo 9 Feb, 2013 @ 9:11am 
Is there a precedent against people who are donators keeping there posts open when they are gone for exuberant amounts of time?

What I mean by this:

This trade has been open for 4 months: http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/4652765

The owner of that trade was last online 129 days ago and counting: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/LunchSet0/

I do not think it makes sense to keep the trades open if it is impossible to get any trading done. I could understand keeping them open for possibly up to a month of absence, but I believe anything more and it would be just better to close the trades.

P.S.: I had originally reported this trade a couple days ago, but then I thought that it would be better to start a discussion about. Then I saw this and it seemed like the appropriate place to turn.
Last edited by Baloo; 9 Feb, 2013 @ 9:15am
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His Wardship 9 Feb, 2013 @ 9:42am 
Part of our mod dashboard tells us when the user was last active, active as in "has done anything at all" and his one says "Last active — 2012-11-08 00:53:03".

I've closed his trades, since they obviously aren't valid.
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Baloo 9 Feb, 2013 @ 9:45am 
Alright thank you! ^^
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Skye 14 Feb, 2013 @ 6:17pm 
What are the matters on "fake c/o's"? Can we report the obvious ones, or aren't we allowed to get into that kind of stuff?
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Nose 14 Feb, 2013 @ 6:26pm 
Originally posted by Skye:
What are the matters on "fake c/o's"? Can we report the obvious ones, or aren't we allowed to get into that kind of stuff?
Yes, report obvious ones. Also, if you see someone's friend has posted an offer that is much more in value than the item they are offering for, report that also.
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Skye 14 Feb, 2013 @ 6:42pm 
Alright, thanks for the reply.
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Therm 15 Feb, 2013 @ 5:07am 
For the report system, can it be possible to get a response from mods if we report something that shouldn't be reported/get a response when its handled? I file a number of reports for trades that are breaking the rules, except they never get closed or anything after a rather long time. sometimes i'll file a second report, but other times i'll just assume that it shouldn't be reported.
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His Wardship 15 Feb, 2013 @ 6:18am 
Why on earth would you file a second report? It's not like reports get lost in the post.

With over a thousand reports a day, it's just impractical to have to respond to them. Currently, we just have a "close" button on our dashboard. I'd personally like a reject option, for invalid reports. Once a specific number of your reports are rejected, your ability to report is revoked for a time.
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Therm 15 Feb, 2013 @ 9:21am 
i filed second reports for extraordinarily stupid things that i feel should be dealt with:

standout example: http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/2711681 (posts in question say hidden by user, but i think that happened automatically due to bans, cause i know i reported this at least 3 times over a period of 3 weeks)
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Vincent Van Goku 17 Feb, 2013 @ 9:20pm 
What are the mods point of view on renamed weapons?

For example, say someone renamed a flamethrower to say "Hitler's Flamethrower" and redescribed it to be something like "A lot of Jews died by this" and then attempted to sell it.

Would the user get banned for it because it's extremely likely to cause total shit storm?

I've seen several trades with several of these renamed things (renamed by the user themselves; I don't think anyone should be held accountable for something they didn't rename or redescribe unless they're like "I BUY DIS CAUSE IT FUNY AND LULZ JEWS BURN") and I've always been reluctant to report them. I know people have been near permaed for stuff like that, some guy with a really racist strange minigun or something got a harsh (with good reason) response from an admit before.
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Fiddleford Hadron McGucket 18 Feb, 2013 @ 2:23am 
Should I be reporting the 40-100 posts I'll run across when searching for people selling keys for metal/money whose stock is at zero, their price is out-dated, and their thread is on autobump?
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norby89 18 Feb, 2013 @ 6:36am 
Originally posted by Duchess:
Should I be reporting the 40-100 posts I'll run across when searching for people selling keys for metal/money whose stock is at zero, their price is out-dated, and their thread is on autobump?
If they have their trades on autobump, yes report them.
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