So, after making the day of a new trader that got scammed on his first trade, I manned up and purged all pointless +rep comments from my Steam profile, as I have been trying to convince myself to do for a long time. 3 years worth of worthless "rep", gone. Feels good.

So, to celebrate, here's Skyrim - Special Edition!
http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/08979c27-aac8-11e6-9621-04019cc0dc01

Spyware SGTools rules:
No multiple wins
No non-activated wins
No VAC

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Is it really Skyrim?

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While Pyrrhus of Epirus was fighting an Argive soldier, the soldier's old mother, who was watching from a rooftop, threw a tile which knocked him from his horse and broke part of his spine, paralyzing him.

Ehm, why delete +rep comments? :O Why are they worthless?

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Because they can be deleted is exactly why they're worthless. You could scam me, I could go on to your profile and =rep you, then you could delete the -rep in seconds.

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So what? Not everyone has a steamtrades profile, so these people will check your steam profile +rep, not your steamtrades +rep! I love my +rep and I would never harm them. ;_:

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So be it. They're still worthless compared to ST comments and moderated rep threads, but you're just as welcome to hold on to your worthless comments as I am to delete mine :)

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I'm just saying that not everyone has a steamtrades profile, so these people will still want to check your +rep on your steam profile and this makes these comments worth something. :P And yeah, I understand.

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Actually, EVERYONE has a ST profile with the new version of the site.

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Doesn't mean they use it though. xD

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They don't need to.

"Hey, how do I know you don't scam?"
"Check this website, I have a high rep"
"Okay cool"
trade
"That's a neat website, I left you a +rep"

\o/

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"Hey, how do I know you won't scam me?"
"Just check my +rep on the steamtrades site."
"Never heard of it."
"Just click here: www.steamtrades.com"
"F@ck your phishing links. Reported on steamrep!"
:P :P :P :P :P

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If they recognize Steamrep, then they likely know about rep-tracking sites by association. Just sayin'.

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It was just a joke actually. :P Anyway, I've seen many people, mostly new traders, not knowing about sites like steamtrades and steamrep.

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And thus we teach them, bettering the trading community as a whole.

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I'd agree their worthless, but I'd never leave my profile so bare in the comments section :(

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I keep only the rep-related comments on my wall and delete all the irrelevant ones, because I want to keep my wall for trades only, not for chat. :P

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I appreciate your dedication to the principle.

Have something cute:

View attached image.
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+rep is for people who see a friend write a +rep on your profile it creates trust

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The main thing is that they an so easily be faked.

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Steamtrades rep too, if you have many friends and they'll all +rep you together. :P Just because it can be f@cked, doesn't make it worthless.

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Difference here is that a scammer can't go in and delete the negatives. Sure, they can get users to load comments, but the site is moderated, to a point, and getting caught can get those comments (and potentially their entire history) stripped.

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But, as I said, that doesn't make it worthless. I have traded with many users that didn't even know the existence of this site, so they trusted me because of my steam +rep comments.

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Like I said, so be it. I've always trusted ST, rep threads, and SteamRep, whereas I've had multiple people rep me out of nowhere on my profile and couldn't keep track of what was fake and what wasn't. That never felt right, so I wiped it all. Besides, most of the traders I've been dealing with through barter.vg have been anti-comment anyway, so, again, so be it.

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Yes, but it's at least far less convenient to do, and the risk of getting discovered is a bit bigger (as are the consequences for getting discovered). With steam rep, you just need to spam "rep for rep" and you'll get it.

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But, as I said, that doesn't make it worthless. I have traded with many users that didn't even know the existence of this site, so they trusted me because of my steam +rep comments.

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Why? Because there are groups devoted to false +rep trading, so people with fake +reps can use them to scam newbie traders.

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And? As I said above, that doesn't make these comments worthless. I have traded with many users that didn't even know the existence of this site, so they trusted me because of my steam +rep comments.

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Who got scammed?

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Not going to say. It's been handled, he's been advised by quite a few traders on how to proceed, and he's at least received a gift from me. Felt bad seeing someone get scammed on their very first trade :P

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How bad was it? What if I want to gift them :(

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He lost Don't Starve Together. Gave him the Slime Rancher he was trying to trade for.

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Oh whow, someone is taking their karma serious. Very nice. :)

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I had an ulterior motive: told him to join SG and give to the community eventually as a "thank you" ;)

Whether he does or not... meh.

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Now you're hinting!

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Thanks for skyrim :P

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Eh, good for you? Can't really see how that helps.
Thanks for skyrimthe gib :)

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Pyrrhus of Epirus, that's a dope ass name.

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More dope than an old woman protecting her son by paralyzing a Greek general with a roof tile? ;)

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I mean, she was more dope than him, but his name is probably doper than her's so he's got that going for him.

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Thanks for the generosity, AzureFang!

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SO, all reputation is gone? :/

Can I enter for the dlc's if I own the base game? Seems fair to you?

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Considering it's a standalone package separate from the old base game, you don't own any of it ;)

This is that fancy remaster, so join away!

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It's AzureFangs decision but consider there's people like me who neither own the original Skyrim nor the Special Edition and if it's really worth entering for DLCs only.

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+rep

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+1

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Thanks, have a +rep for your trouble.

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Bump!

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Thanks for Skyrim, I guess... I already own it myself, but it's surely a great choice for a giveaway :3

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+rep! ^^

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+rep Gave me candies and locked me in a van. What happened next will SHOCK you!

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steam comments are useless since they can be filtered by you, so nothing was lost. 👍

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Yep never trust mass +rep's from other scummers =)

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Thanks for Skyrim :)

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Thanks for making the giveaway :D I've put way too many hours in the game (already own both so not entering the giveaway) and I've just started a new playthrough! Hope that the winner will enjoy it!

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Hai i haf 10274 pages of +reps lets trade your anime aug for my 18210$, i have more reps so you send me firstt

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I should do that at some point.. maybe empty my comments on my profile someday lol

Already own the game but thanks anyways :3

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Aww :( have a bump!

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RIP for the +rep.

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+respect. :D

I don't have any +rep (or very few) on my profile. Yet I still have 501 comments there which I'm too lazy to clean up. :P

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Make Bad Rats Great again ^^

Bump And Thanks OP :)

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+Bump!?

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Bump!

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RIP rep system. Bump

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