Originally posted by norby89:

How would you friend them if they also have this option enabled?

That's a good question Norby. But what we should REALLY be asking is why Joe keeps on throwing these things to us when the last 2 things were rejected. The second one Blue Screen of Death actually scolded him. Surely he should have gotten the hint that you guys can't do ANYTHING about these as of right now. This ALSO prevents the Steam ID from being shown (Not the number one.) so there's NO way to tell if the trade is by a known scammer. The normal scammers who are AWARE of the false phishing links will take this to their advantage.

Originally posted by NiceTraderJoe:

No measure is 100%. This is an effort. I am looking for options and effort. Currently there are none.

People seem to cry, "if it's not 100% effective, why bother?" Seat belts are not 100% effective, but I wear them every time I get into a car and I refuse to ride in a car without them.

The can crack the captcha in SECONDS. Not really great. All they need to do is add some extra coding to make it read and type the captcha, they are pretty much the Borg from Star Trek.

Originally posted by Currier Bell:

All it would take is for the bot operator to find the Steam ID of our bots then and blacklist them for good. We'd have to constantly keep making more and more accounts just to avoid being detected. On top of that, most bots would be buried into the friends list of the phisher and would require someone to manually check in order to find it, resulting in more effort needed than would probably be done by just blocking the suspicious bot outright.

It just comes out to a massive workload without any real way to measure stressfulness and requires users to put effort in additional effort.

Look on the bright side. According to this guy the Scammer Population is going down by the fake accounts. Team Phisher Bot due to Scammers being more gullible! Yay!

Originally posted by Zesc7:

Originally posted by Currier Bell:

All it would take is for the bot operator to find the Steam ID of our bots then and blacklist them for good. We'd have to constantly keep making more and more accounts just to avoid being detected. On top of that, most bots would be buried into the friends list of the phisher and would require someone to manually check in order to find it, resulting in more effort needed than would probably be done by just blocking the suspicious bot outright.

It just comes out to a massive workload without any real way to measure stressfulness and requires users to put effort in additional effort.

...Okay? I didnt realy understand your meaning, and google translator donT help me realy much... (streesfulness?????)

Uhhh... he never used Google Translate. He speaks english. He don't NEED Google Translate.

That would work, if they COULDN'T fill in captchas. But they can.

Read the pinned topics plz.

WE'RE DOOMED! SOMEBODY DIDN'T READ THE RULES! GET TO THE BOMB SHELTER!

YOU BROKE THE RULES!

This happens sometimes. Give it time. Eventually it will work.

Step 1. Read pinned threads.
Step 2. Block these people
Yay! That's all you can do.

Originally posted by TheCuteMonkey:

I got my first reply after 2 days

Oh. I don't know then since I have no idea what the reply said. Was is accepted, was it rejected? I have no clue. If it's rejected it would make sense, but if it's accepted you should have been unbanned by now.