The Impact of a Blacklist on the Forum Environment (Hidden GA [*ENDED: Solution Inside])

Currently I'm only using blacklist feature to filter out all shameless leechers with horrific ratios. That's all.

Instead of blacklist, I wish there was an auto-permanent-ban system suspending every user with lower than 0.4 or 0.5 won/sent ratio. Sounds cruel? For me it is more cruel to see a member with preposterous stats like gifts won - 364, sent - 17.

I don't use the feature. I think that it has caused more harm to this site than good and group giveaways pretty much prevents people that you don't want from joining your giveaways anyway. Too many variables are involved now just to create a simple giveaway and using sgtools and blacklists just adds more to the mess.

I had a few people on my blacklist. Now I checked and found most of them are permanently banned so I cleared whole blacklist.

Maybe they should made blacklist to work both ways? When Person A blacklist Person B then Person A should automaticaly be put on Person B's blacklist?

Getting blacklisted doesn't feel good, but I don't let that prevent me from giving my opinion on things in those kind of threads. I am very open minded and reasonable, and if I get blacklisted for being that way, then the person I got blacklisted by is probably closed-minded primitive bigot and I don't care about being blacklisted by such people.

Since people are using their money to make giveaways I think they have the right to exclude whoever they want from being able to access their giveaways with blacklist, even if they don't have a good reason for it. After all, it sucks when someone you don't like wins one of your giveaways, regardless of the reason why you don't like them.

In my opinion, the only change blacklist system needs is that when someone blacklists you, he gets added to your blacklist. I don't want people who blacklisted me enter my giveaways, and I personally don't want to enter giveaways from people I blacklisted.

I prefer blacklist people for something exceptional like scamming or rule-breaking (not on SG though directly - sadly its pretty common, and i resently was one of those). I guess I like remember for what reasont this particular person on my black list. So its only two people and I hope it will reman the same. It such a burden) Because of this I think I'm not causing any impact on SG.

personally my blacklist rarely gets used,besides the obvious rule breakers i think i only have two people on my blacklist and i fell justified putting them there:)
personally i mostly concentrate on my whitelist and tend to do a lot of whitelist Ga's, i like to concentrate on rewarding the people i find positive on here instead of feeling the need to try to punish all the ones who would be considered bad and blacklist them.

love DT

+1 for "shameless leechers with horrific ratios"

Also, I don't BL for differences of opinion on the forum. Mature people can disagree in a respectful way.

It's the folks who insist you're wrong over a matter of opinion (like religion, misogyny, homophobia, racism, etc) or insist there is no issue when society shows otherwise, and are arrogant and rude about it. I've got zero problem BL those folks, and I do.

Bullying behavior gets BL, too.

I'm not going to spout all over the forum about it and be petty about it. I just simply do not wish to give someone something I paid for when I have found their behavior to be cruel and self-centered. So, I BL silently and move on.

I blacklist rude, racist and anti-Semitic people, too entitled people, too sour people, people who belittle new users, people who blacklist me, SGT party crashers and winners that don't say thank you.

Users that re-gift and have very bad ratio's can be countered not with blacklist but things like higher CV levels and SGT settings like ratio settings, all games activated, no multiple wins,...

Concerning opinions I have seen users say proverbial black to one user and a bit later say proverbial white against another user. In other words users that bend themselves in any and all directions most probably because they are afraid to be blacklisted for saying their true opinion. To each his own but I do say my opinion and there are users here that like to dish out but when it comes to the receiving side well that's more difficult and then as a last resort they blacklist.

I even had users that blacklisted me behind my back and then entered giveaways of mine...

There are users that misuse and abuse the blacklist, those that like to blacklist so much that they blacklist for anything and are getting close to maximum blacklist capacity, those that don't use the blacklist and those who use it but sparsely.

Just came here to bump for the secret giveaways :)

Been here a week, given away 6 games, won nothing so far. Made 1 friend on steam, had one turd try to argue with me even though he got his key, he made my blacklist because he took the argument public in the comments. Have not had anyone that got a game from me give me a thumb up yet, looking pretty lousy so far, blacklist for all.

I only use blacklist to add people on it after they just won a game from me. That way I don't need to provide it (either keep it for myself or trade it) and I still get positive feedback, it is a neat little loophole.

There are some people I just don't want to give video games to. It's not the end of the world.

I argue when I can, I try not to be an asshole, I blacklist rule-breakers and I don't quite care who blacklists me. Do the same on the forums, be happy on your life ^^

What you said is true. But still, why did it affect you and made you less active in the forums? If someone blacklisted you, then why do you even care? World is much more harsh than that. No need to worry about stupid blacklists. :)

My blacklist is solely for those whom I consider leechers and I do not want them leeching from my giveaways.

BTW - Thanks for sharing the DT song. I have a few of their albums but have not heard this track before. I liked it very much.

I'm too white to be blacklisted.

I don't think that blacklisting in itself is toxic for the forum, it's being vocal about it that is.

I don't personally care for whitelisting or blacklisting people all that much, which is kinda reflected in the number of people I have white-/or blacklisted (a total of five, I believe); but seeing how you're all having your own opinion here I'mma just blacklist all of you forever.

I'm blunt with my opinion, so if it offends you, you have to do what you have to do, right?

Dont be afraid to say your opinion or even be active i can understand that it might hurt when you find out you are being blacklisted by someone for reasons unknown it happen to all of us my advise is not to blacklist them back you can even whitelist them , if you think the foroum as a real cafe with poeple talking its not possible for everyone to go along with everyone in real life i am sure you met many poeple that after talking to them a while or even hear them say an opinion you didnt want to do anything them ever ,if you were right or wrong who knows the point is for me i come to sg foroum cause most of the time i get joy reading posts and in general i like the attitude and mature behaviour of 99% of the members there is no point in feeling mad when someone says something i dont like and go blacklisting them its no good for my soul. There is a party of poeple tho that i would blacklist and that is poeple who win a game and not activate or not giving feedback that is major for me cause its like spiting on someone else generocity even if he paid 10 cents its his hard earned money and we should respect that, but i also dont try to hunt them down i only have 1 person in my blacklist cause he/she gave me trouble but it doesnt really matter anymore cause i checked one day and he/she was permantly banned

I think blacklisting is important. If I saw someone violating rules I wouldn't want them to participate in my lovely bundle leftover giveaways. I guess it's up to each individual to decide how they want to use their blacklist, but personally I have seem some people who have, like, "one strike and you're out" policies and it's mostly someone else making a bad joke (admittedly depends on how tasteless the joke was), or they failed to read an entire long post and asked a question that was already answered. Stuff that is annoying, for sure, but I wouldn't instantly add someone to my blacklist. Or at least I wouldn't bother posting about how I'm adding them to it.

BUT again that's my personal feelings, I don't think any less of someone who uses the tools they have available in ways they see fit.