Steam allows not only to play games with friends, but also engage in many other interesting things. For example, create groups to communicate, exchange screenshots. One of the popular activities is trade of objects at Steam. For all merchants, it is important that the person with whom you lead negotiations had a good reputation, because the reliability of the transaction depends on this. Bad merchant may well deceive. Therefore, incentive incentive invented a kind of label for good vendors.
What is + REP in Steam
What do + rep, rep +, + rap on users' pages? Such designations can often be seen on the wall of Popular Accounts Steam. In fact, everything is quite simple. After two users are exchanged for Steam, often both each other write + rap or + rep. This is a kind of mark, the deal was successful and the person with which was exchanged, has sufficient reliability. REP is a shortened designation from the word reputation (reputation). Thus, if a person on the wall has many similar designations from different users, this merchant can be considered reliable and calmly lead with him any transactions. The likelihood that he deceives, usually small.
However, in recent times you can see a large number of accounts that are specifically put a positive reputation as a particular user. Therefore, when you look at the user's page with a lot of positive feedback, do not forget at the same time check the profiles of those who wrote these reviews. If they cause confidence, that is, they exist for many years, they have enough friends and there are gaming activity, it means that their assessment can be believed. If the accounts that positive feedback are set, there are only a couple of weeks, they have no friends, there are no purchased games, it is most likely fake accounts created to raise a reputation of a specific player.
This, of course, not 100% means that the user is an unreliable trader, but still it is necessary to show extra caution when exchanging. In any case, when you make an exchange in Steam, look at the cost of things that another person passes you. This can be done on the style trading platform. If the user asks for expensive objects from you, and in return gives a cheap, such a deal, respectively, can be considered disadvantageous and desirable to abandon it. It is better to find a merchant who will offer more favorable terms of the transaction. If your exchange has passed smoothly, do not forget to put + rep a person with whom you exchanged objects. Perhaps you will put in response plus to reputation.
Sometimes such comments are left and players in some online games. It does not have anything in common with the exchange, but simply means how good or badly led the player in a concrete match.
Now you know what + REP on the pages of Steam users.