July 19 CecilyLovesYou was banned for three days for harassing Courtney in status updates.
July 20 Yahiamice created a thread detailing his situation in retaliation to treatment he had recently received from other forum members due to a problem while being brokered for by Kuuko-San.▐ TheVenomWithin was banned for a week from the main site for sharing his premium tools with other users.▐ Sir j-j-jon, a former backpack.tf price moderator, who was banned for admitting to have sought after hijacked hats through the Steam Community Market, was trade banned today. It is unknown whether the ban is permanent or not.
July 21 Hawko requested a ban until August 30th.
July 22 Scrap.tf reduced the time it takes a bot to send a trade offer by 3 seconds.
July 23 λngelღмander successfully appealed his caution.▐ A conversation between Courtney and Blake McCullough, a TF2Outpost moderator, escalated into this Reddit thread.
July 24 Courtney and The Tea Overlord received permanent bans for participating in flame wars and causing drama in the status updates.▐ A small TF2 update rendered LMAOBox, a popular cheat client, useless. Read about it here. ▐ Baloo, an outpost moderator and longtime backpack.tf member, has requested a permanent ban from the forums. He elected not to reveal his motives behind leaving.
July 25 Sugarcube was banned for two weeks for spamming.▐ Kebabvendor recieved a two week ban for spamming with an alt during a temporary ban.▐ Scrap.tf introduced a feature that shows a user the amount of time before the next contract drop. Read the announcement here. ▐ A major fault in Steam security resulted in a rash of accounts being hijacked. The exploit involved the use of the reset password feature, and all that was needed to perform it was the victim's Steam account name. It appears to have been fixed at this time. Cleverpun, a moderator here on backpack.tf, seems to have fallen victim to this, as he reportedly locked his account using Steam guard after receiving a password change confirmation email. Read more about the initial exploit here.▐ Stargatius had his permanent ban removed, and has returned to the forums.
July 20 Yahiamice created a thread detailing his situation in retaliation to treatment he had recently received from other forum members due to a problem while being brokered for by Kuuko-San.▐ TheVenomWithin was banned for a week from the main site for sharing his premium tools with other users.▐ Sir j-j-jon, a former backpack.tf price moderator, who was banned for admitting to have sought after hijacked hats through the Steam Community Market, was trade banned today. It is unknown whether the ban is permanent or not.
July 21 Hawko requested a ban until August 30th.
July 22 Scrap.tf reduced the time it takes a bot to send a trade offer by 3 seconds.
July 23 λngelღмander successfully appealed his caution.▐ A conversation between Courtney and Blake McCullough, a TF2Outpost moderator, escalated into this Reddit thread.
July 24 Courtney and The Tea Overlord received permanent bans for participating in flame wars and causing drama in the status updates.▐ A small TF2 update rendered LMAOBox, a popular cheat client, useless. Read about it here. ▐ Baloo, an outpost moderator and longtime backpack.tf member, has requested a permanent ban from the forums. He elected not to reveal his motives behind leaving.
July 25 Sugarcube was banned for two weeks for spamming.▐ Kebabvendor recieved a two week ban for spamming with an alt during a temporary ban.▐ Scrap.tf introduced a feature that shows a user the amount of time before the next contract drop. Read the announcement here. ▐ A major fault in Steam security resulted in a rash of accounts being hijacked. The exploit involved the use of the reset password feature, and all that was needed to perform it was the victim's Steam account name. It appears to have been fixed at this time. Cleverpun, a moderator here on backpack.tf, seems to have fallen victim to this, as he reportedly locked his account using Steam guard after receiving a password change confirmation email. Read more about the initial exploit here.▐ Stargatius had his permanent ban removed, and has returned to the forums.