People and re-gifting.

Just report them. Re-gifting is bannable.

Support knows about this. . no need for another thread.

Greed, foolishness, not being aware of the rules that they really should be aware of, etc.

Not just dwarfs, I saw a guy trying to regift a copy that he just won of booster trooper, i told him about and he kept trying and ignored me :/ I hope all those people who use the gifts for they own benefit get a PERMANENT ban.

They want to increase their contributor amount. I really don't care whether someone uses their gift or re gifts it.

Regifting is bad. Same way that using gifts you won for tradefodder is bad.

People that make giveaways aren't doing it so you can profit. They are doing it so you can win a game.

If you form a community and allow it to gradually increase over time, the ideals that helped form the community will become corrupt no matter what you do. It's social entropy. Gifting is supposed to be an act of kindness with CV being an incentive. But the community is now filled with profiteers who are only interested in increasing their cv so that they can enter better giveaways. These are the people who dont give 2 shits about regifting.

And then you have the regifters. They cant be arsed to spend a dime on a game to gift it but they resort to underhanded tactics which are clearly against the rules. Leeches and freeloaders. Rules need to be enforced with severe consequences. No one would put themselves at risk by regifting if the suspensions were permanent.

I guess it's not that bad, at least he is not trading the game.. He is giving away,because he does not want it,and hopefully this time game will end up in someones hands who will appreciate it. Kind of better than being greedy and the game that you don't even want.

It is kind of sad. People show kindness by gifting free games, and then some people show their greed by taking those free games and profiting from it. I personally make sure the game I gave is activated before leaving the winner of my giveaway alone.

Personally, I sit on the sidelines with the whole regifting issue, it is a lot more common then with just the "Dwarfs" game, that's for sure, especially with any bloody humble-junk that hits the fan. I've gifted several games myself and could care less what the winner really does with it in the end, it's theirs .. regift it, trade it, play it ... if you get caught, well you pay the price. I can say, this site would probably not be as abundant in members thou. Both contributors and regifters are your reason for even being here in the first place, you probably wouldn't have half as many points to spend on giveaways without both of them. Not saying it's right, I understand the need for the rulebook and if you can prove it, well make a statement and report them ... but there will always be peeps out to better their position, some have the money, some don't ... just know your giveaway most certainly isn't without a benefit to the winner(s). How many people do you think would even bother with this site, if they came on everday to spend maybe 50 points towards a giveaway ... kinda seem like a waste of time really ... something to chew on when you next spend your 200 points on "Skyrim: Legendary" and "Bioshock Triple Pack" and whatever latest game a developer puts up, in hopes that the members of this site will vote for ...

i always regift

On this site a game should go to someone who wants to play the game. Not someone that is going to trade it or regift it in order to up their CV. Imagine, in the case of Dwarfs!? there were about 22,000 people entered. I have to assumed that most of them wanted to play the game. So one regifter robbed about 12,000 people of the chance of playing the game. Even if he regifts it, odds are it will not have the same people in their giveaway let alone those numbers.

I'll answer you. It's stupidity.

People are too stupid/lazy to read the FAQ and gifting rules... sometimes even both.

If the Giveaway'er (Person giving the game away) Doesn't care if you re-gift it or trade it away will the receiver still get suspended if they do in fact trade it or re-gift it? (I know its yes but I want to start a discussion about this), I agree that re-gifting it away is pointless as it should have been given to someone who wants it in the first place but as for trading I'm not too sure. I hope the giveaways I hosted went to people who actually wanted the game but if someone traded it to get a game they really wanted I don't think I would mind too much since that game would hopefully end up in the hands of someone who wants to play it, I would much rather the winner want to play it though. I should check if the winners of my giveaways have activated their games by now.

Ps. This is just my opinion, I'm aware of the rules and I don't condone or promote breaking them in any such way.

I create a giveaways with the gifts I won . . . and then don't even bother sending it to the person that won . . . I am cool like that.

As a former Admin/Mod I learned that FAQ's and pinned threads seams to be invisible to people. Also some people are ignorant or stupid. Maybe both. While I admit that I skim through the FAQ and not 100% read the rules, at least I know the basics. In this day and age you have to take people by the hand and show/explain things to them because they are to lazy to read FAQ's/pinned threads or do a simple Google search.

Besides re-gifting massive giveaways, another one of my favorites that happen often here are when new members make a giveaway without owning a key/gift. They think steamgifts magicaly provides free game for them to give out.

Here's more of a question for support/admins of the site ... honest truth, how many regifter's are accually caught by them alone and banned? It takes a few to run the site, but is there enough manpower behind this community to catch the law-benders? I can see the rulebook being written to keep the masses down, new and old members, there are always people who will bend the rules, regardless of the penalty. In short, I think it takes the effort of the contributor of the giveaway to make sure the winner does in fact, add the game to their library and not regift or trade it. Laziness in reading FAQ's is one thing, but if you feel strongly enough over regifting, then contributors as well need to start stepping it up.

This rule is stupid. If you give games away you should't care what the new owner want to do with it.

Feel free to ban me for this opinion.

What if someone enters a giveaway for a game that his/her friend really wants. That seems okay.

From the site rules:
"Don't trade, sell, resubmit, or give away games you win."

All users who break this rule will be suspended, and the regifts will be deleted (if on site). It doesn't matter whether the gifter or the winner has different opinions regarding this rule. If you see users breaking this rule, please report them by creating a support ticket.

If you do not wish to adhere by the site rules, there are many other sites that allow you to do custom giveaways. You can feel free to use them.