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You can report anybody who hasn't activated a won game after 7 days. You don't have to be the GA creator to do that.

Actually, it's perfectly fair...check this out:

Scenario 1
characters: GA creator, GA winner, and 3rd party (future game winner)
situation: GA winner is sitting on a license for the GA game. After they win, they give away their unregistered license.
outcome: GA creator gets their CV credit. GA winner now has the game in their library. GA winner gives away their (now) extra license, so a 3rd party also gets a copy of the game. GA winner also gets CV credit.

Scenario 2
characters GA creator, GA canceler/non-participant, and 3rd party (now the winner of the original GA)
situation: GA canceler/non-participant realizes that they already have an unregistered license for the game, and either doesn't enter or leaves after the realization takes place. This person goes ahead and registers the license they already had.
outcome: GA creator gets their CV credit. GA canceler/non-participant now has the game in their library (because they registered their copy). A 3rd party gets a copy of the game (because they are now the person who won the GA).

So, as we can see, the exact # of copies of the game go into circulation, and some 3rd party gets one of them no matter what. The original GA creator gets the same CV in either case - they don't care who won. And, the person with the unregistered copy ends up adding the game to their library in either case. The only thing that happens if they add their own copy to their library is that they eliminate the GA CV potential of that game to help themselves rank up, which makes what this person did really pretty smart in realizing that. They have not taken anything from anyone, and a 3rd party still got a copy of the game. Essentially, if they're willing to sit on the license for a while, they can try to win the game...if they get lucky after some time, then they can GA their other copy. If they don't get lucky, well...then they just eventually register the license they had laying around to their library once their patience has run out.

So while this may seem a little shady, from an objective standpoint, it's actually totally fair. It just allows for some up-ranking of an additional person. Considering how you can lose rank value for games that you spent money on in the past (and GA'd while they were valuable) because their status changes later, I'd say that this is a perfectly fair way to hedge things back toward the givers' favor.

In any case, I hope that helps. No one got ripped off. Everything is okeedokee.

But if someone straight up re-gifts a game that they won (especially if they never even add it to their library or already had it registered there), then that's really icky. Those people have missed the spirit of SG.

To be clear, I wouldn't enter to win a game for which I already have a key (or know I'll be buying shortly) just to boost my CV. I do see why that would be objectionable: like regifting, you shouldn't be taking a win just to make a giveaway on your own terms. It's contrary to the free-as-in-beer philosophy behind Steamgifts. However, deciding to buy a bundle after winning a game it contains, in spite of having already won that game and making a giveaway of it, I don't see a problem with that.

And now that guy is passing along his copy to someone else who doesn't have the game.