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Kaiga 6 Jul, 2013 @ 2:12pm
Cant search listings without signing in? GF userbase.
Surely the bright minds behind outpost must realize that a vast majority of players used it to find listings quickly and easily, without having to jump through hoops and sign in through steam, and then have a public inventory so you dont get autobanned when you do, etc.

And now you cant. That makes no sense. It's really a pain in the ass to sign in on public, and other people's computers, just so you can search for what's listed, even the link to the search feature tells you to log in... this is mind blowingly stupid.
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Currier Bell 6 Jul, 2013 @ 4:14pm 
It is also a deterrent to scammers. If you are marked as a scammer, you cannot sign in and use the features to find targets. Signing in also has the benefit of having alt accounts trigger the system, and ban those as well.

While they may be a minor inconvenience, there is reason behind such choices.
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Nose 6 Jul, 2013 @ 5:28pm 
Take a few seconds to login. Currier is right though, people who are banned can't login, so they can't use that function and a few others.
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Kaiga 6 Jul, 2013 @ 5:32pm 
You do realize that that does absolutely nothing to deter scammers, as they can simply google outpost search results for whatever they want, and go from there? Say i wanted to scam a modest pile of hat, to find people selling them, i got this off google. http://www.tf2outpost.com/search/67450170. Circumvented. Besides, all this does is slow down legitimate players who could be using the site without being logged in yet still, increasing it's web traffic, and seeing ads.
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Currier Bell 6 Jul, 2013 @ 6:09pm 
While Google can do some work, that's a much bigger inconvenience to the scammers than it takes to log into the site.

Also just because they can do some crazy bypass to the system which would take some serious dedication to even find one possible target, we should just give up and not try to stop them at all?

Seriously, it takes less than 30 seconds to log in and helps prevent some bad apples from using the site, I see no issue here.
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Vincent Van Goku 6 Jul, 2013 @ 9:07pm 
Originally posted by Currier Bell:
It is also a deterrent to scammers. If you are marked as a scammer, you cannot sign in and use the features to find targets. Signing in also has the benefit of having alt accounts trigger the system, and ban those as well.

While they may be a minor inconvenience, there is reason behind such choices.

Couldn't have put it better, really.
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Blue Screen of Death 7 Jul, 2013 @ 7:37pm 
I'm removing the derailed posts from this topic. If any of you want to continue this discussion, please do it privately, thanks.
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