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Trading with marked scammers WILL hurt your reputation

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If you are trading anything, you should always check the persons SteamRep before trading with them. To check someone's SteamRep, get their profile url and put it into the box on the front page of http://steamrep.com . Some servers may have the SteamRep plugin installed, if this is the case, type /sr in the chat, followed by the name of the person you want to check. Here are some examples of rep on SR:The 1st picture shows 2 negative rep tags: Valve Trade Banned and Banned. Trade Banned means that they are banned from trading by Valve. Normally, you can't trade with these people therefore you don't have to worry about them. Banned means they have been banned by SteamRep or one of their partner communities. In the example shown, the player has been banned by a SR partner community, Fortress of Gamers, or FoG for short. Generally, the reason why they have been banned will be underneath the rep. Many communities handle tags differently, so not all communities tag for the same reasons.The 2nd picture shows a 2 positive rep tags: Administrator and Middleman. The administrator tag is applied to either SR admins or admins designated by one of SR's multiple partner communities. The middleman tag is applied by a community in order to show that this person is trusted in holding items during item gambling (spycrabbing etc.). The community that has applied the tag will be stated in the bottom left hand corner of the rep box. Some admins or middlemen may have custom notes below their rep in order to tell you something. In this case, the admin and mm tags belong to Vintage Cobra.The 3rd picture shows 2 tags, one of which has reputation value: Caution and Donator. The caution tag is applied when minor events happen, such as Sharking (when a player gains immense profit, normally against a new trader, but not in a way that makes it scamming). This type of tag normally has a reason below it, but at times it can just say "Deceptive trading tactics". It may also include having a tag lowered from a scammer tag to caution tag, or other suspicious activities that cannot warrant a full banned tag (yet). In this case, the tag has been applied by the SR partner community Reddit Gaming or just Reddit for short. The donator tag does NOT count as positive rep, but normally shows that they are loyal to the community. There are 5 tiers of donations, which can be found > Here < . Again, do not count donator status as positive rep, as anyone can donate, scammer or not.On some of the pictures you may notice Banned Friends and Pending Reports: Banned friends shows how many friends that player has that have any type of negative reputation. This does not affect the player with the friends' reputation though. Pending reports means how many reports on the SteamRep forums there are against players. I reccommend you check the reports linked below the tag to see if they are legitimate or not, is they are, avoid these people at all costs, but you will not be banned if you trade with them in this state. If you do get banned after you have traded with a non marked scammer, you may appeal it wherever you were banned from.