Can your Steam rating go down if you don't play a lot?

Last timme I checked my Steam rating, it was a 9-10, almost consistently.  I normally played 30-40 hours of TF2 every two weeks.  I haven't been playing a lot the past couple weeks, because I've been out or at school.  What time I did have home was mostly for housework, so by the time I had freetime I needed time to go out and didn't have much time for TF2.

I played today.  I did really good, too, keeping at least two deaths per kill as Spy and Pyro, including a 9 backstab streak as Spy.  My hours played in the last two weeks is 6.6, and my Steam Rating is now 2.1 - Nearly Lifeless.  But, when I did play I did well everytime.  So, do you get a higher Steam Rating from laying more?

If so, that seems strange because if I can't play 15-20 Hours one week, but still do well when I do play, I don't want to have my rating go down.  It's not that big of a deal, but I like it being at 9-10.

Yes, it's based on how much you've played in the last 2 weeks and does go up and down

EAGLES SCREEEEAAAAAMMMMM!!!!!!!!!


lol srsly, probably the least important thing in life, ever. It's not based on skill but playing time.

What they said, time not skill.

There is a thing in the FAQ's somewhere and Valve goes ahead and says that its basically pointless.

Oh, I always assumed it was based on skill.  That explains a lot.

Thanks.

Steam Rating = Post Count.  Has absolutely NOTHING to do with the value of that person.  But there seems to be a certain clique of player who these numbers seem to lay heavily on their minds.  They're beyond help often, so I hope this isn't the case.

It's like I tell people, arbitrary numbers like this have absolutely no meaning.  If the best TF2 player went on a 2 week vacation, then came back with a rating of 0.0 - teh suck, would that mean he was now a poor TF2 player?  If Albert Einstein made his first post on a physics forum, would that post count of 1 mean that he's a n00b who knows nothing about the subject?

Aegis, you are wrong dude. I have never posted in the forum there and i have had EAGLES SCREAM!!! multiple times. It is based on how much you have been playing steam games in the last 2 weeks.

I think he meant it's like post count.  I don't really care about the score that bad, I was just wondering.

why does it matter