August 9 Sphere Box raided the forums.▐ Twitch streamer and forum member LookAtMyChicken crafted four unusuals together in an attempt to get better unusuals with better effects. Watch the video here.▐ Toughsox and Ascent were promoted to appeal admins on outpost, as well as sirploko being given the orange admin tag.▐ Kitteh was reported on FoG and SteamRep for allegedly charging back a paypal payment made to Bone. He was permanently banned on the forums immediately after the scam became apparent, and a user created an alt with his name, which was quickly banned. The alt was not Kitteh.
August 10 Wooden House was unbanned today, after serving over a year of his permanent ban for engaging in a flame war.▐ TheProcave appealed his requested permanent ban.
August 11 w0lk returned to the forums, having previously requested a permanent ban.▐ Frost, who shot all the way to the number one backpack over the course of a few months, was permanently banned from TF2Outpost for trading with obvious scammer alts. His case was just one in a number of bans incurred after a number of reputable traders traded with a scammer alt that was considered by outpost to be obvious, but multiple members of the community expressed their discontent with the decision, as they believe the alt was credible to be traded with. Read their discussion here.▐ Two more moderators on TF2Outpost were promoted. Baloo now handles user reports, and Voxdei joined the appeals admin team.
August 12 Bone won his paypal chargeback dispute against Kitteh.▐ Dispenser.tf had at least 100 bitcoins stolen from their site after an unauthorized admin panel access in the early morning. At the time of theft, that amounts to slightly over 25,000 USD. Read their announcement about it here.▐ After being banned for a month, Wubsies made an alt to request his permanent ban.
August 13 Steam is holding back items during trades. It is advisable not to do any trading until this has been fixed. Scrap.tf elected to disable its services for the time being.▐ Rafiozol and Captain Caboose were banned for three days and seven days respectively, for abusing the character glitch that breaks status updates.▐ Tanner the Original Scout was permanently banned, after the alt he had been using for a few weeks was traced back to him.
August 14 Nick and RozeEagle got into a battle on the status updates in the night.
August 15 The Steam trading glitch continued into today, with more and more reports of missing items. Steam has made no comment on the situation.▐ Silverspeed was banned for a full year from trade.tf after a situation Lord Swag detailed in this discussion. Multiple forum members were also banned from the trade.tf forums after they harassed Lord Swag there.
August 10 Wooden House was unbanned today, after serving over a year of his permanent ban for engaging in a flame war.▐ TheProcave appealed his requested permanent ban.
August 11 w0lk returned to the forums, having previously requested a permanent ban.▐ Frost, who shot all the way to the number one backpack over the course of a few months, was permanently banned from TF2Outpost for trading with obvious scammer alts. His case was just one in a number of bans incurred after a number of reputable traders traded with a scammer alt that was considered by outpost to be obvious, but multiple members of the community expressed their discontent with the decision, as they believe the alt was credible to be traded with. Read their discussion here.▐ Two more moderators on TF2Outpost were promoted. Baloo now handles user reports, and Voxdei joined the appeals admin team.
August 12 Bone won his paypal chargeback dispute against Kitteh.▐ Dispenser.tf had at least 100 bitcoins stolen from their site after an unauthorized admin panel access in the early morning. At the time of theft, that amounts to slightly over 25,000 USD. Read their announcement about it here.▐ After being banned for a month, Wubsies made an alt to request his permanent ban.
August 13 Steam is holding back items during trades. It is advisable not to do any trading until this has been fixed. Scrap.tf elected to disable its services for the time being.▐ Rafiozol and Captain Caboose were banned for three days and seven days respectively, for abusing the character glitch that breaks status updates.▐ Tanner the Original Scout was permanently banned, after the alt he had been using for a few weeks was traced back to him.
August 14 Nick and RozeEagle got into a battle on the status updates in the night.
August 15 The Steam trading glitch continued into today, with more and more reports of missing items. Steam has made no comment on the situation.▐ Silverspeed was banned for a full year from trade.tf after a situation Lord Swag detailed in this discussion. Multiple forum members were also banned from the trade.tf forums after they harassed Lord Swag there.