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RE: To Bid or Not to Bid. That is the question.
Blacklists are a good first step but i think it's going to make the spammers create even more spam accounts so that they can spread out their bids and keep each to a minimum.
As soon as an account gets blacklisted, they'll activate another one. The only way to beat them is to make spam economically unviable and that would need someone like steamcleaners to come in for a 1-2 combo.
I disagree. I believe that a blacklist can make it difficult enough to stop a lot of the abuse. Though some would continue to make more sock-puppet accounts, this is happening already anyways at an extreme level. Some of the HF19 changes need to be reverted as well. If stinc would work on this aspect more and less on SMT's then we would be in good shape.
Yeah it'll probably stop the small time spammers.