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Administrator
Skial Admin Trade Banned by Valve for over 24 days and he's SR Trusted?
Apparently, [this guy (Ti)](http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198037039111) is admin of [Skial](https://www.skial.com/) but he's Trade Banned (permanently?). He's been banned [since 21 or 22 May](http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198037039111?t=1432314658), now the question is why is he banned and how come he still has his SR Trusted tag while banned?

If he's legit, how can a legit person be banned for almost a month without a reason? If he's not legit, why is he branded Trusted by SR (that makes SR illegit)?

Author: R3TR1X

http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/39t11q/skial_admin_trade_banned_by_valve_for_over_24/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comme...banned_by_valve_for_over_24/?ref=search_posts
 

Bottiger

Administrator
There have been quite a few cases where Valve has just trade banned people for being mass reported and they revert the ban much later. Anyway you can't trade with a trade banned account, so there's no risk of being scammed if they can't trade.
 

185db

Epic Skial Regular
I heard that they were banning almost all middlemen, and he happens to be one. Also what TapTap said.
 

staticvoid

Gaben's Own Aimbot
Contributor
Something similar happened to a csgo player that I just found out about. The speculation is that Valve does track every item, and any item that gets flagged as being scammed or stolen gets tracked, and that once it finds a final account Valve will ban the user for having scammed/stolen items. Of course that's just speculation, but it seems possible since middleman could handle stolen items quite often.
 
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Ghostalau

Mildly Menacing Medic
Well, for example Anomaly also got Tradebaned , after a few days ( or weeks or however time passed ) he got unbanned - mabye a Valve error or he got , as a gift a stolen item.
Valve will ban players for also havin scammed/stolen items. Same could happend to him he bout from someone , without scamming him ( legit ) a stolen item. ( From how much i heard they are kind of banning most of middlemen )