Why don't people who appear active here and on Steam not check their game keys for days?

The rule is 7 days no matter what you write.

Is it because they automatically participate in giveaways, or is it because they are selfish?
Even though I wrote that it should be checked in a short time on the giveaway page, it is not taken into account.

According to the rules, they have 7 days to activate. They actually have more right to wait 6 days, than for you to ask "activate fast", because additional rules are not a thing.
One may say it's rude not to activate as soon as possible, but to be honest it's just as rude to complain about them doing things in ways that are in align with the site's rules.

TLDR: doesn't matter why they wait, but they have the right to do so.

As far as I know "online" on Steamgifts might just be an open browser tab.

Please take different timezones into account. Someone might enter one of you giveaways shortly before going to bed and only check Steamgifts again the next day after work/school, depending on their situation in life, a couple of days later.

As "rules" in the description are null and void, I have to say, that I would enter a giveaway saying "be online when this ends", even if I would know that I could not be online. If you call this selfish, then I am selfish. If I know that I will not be on SG for more than a week, I leave all giveaways. At least I hope I have done this every time.

Keep in mind that winners have 7 days to collect their games.

Edit: Typos.

Well I always wait 7 days as the rules tell me to.

Sometimes people have no time because there can be something happening in their life or something.

Sometimes I'm the one waiting 5-7 days for someone to click a button and get the game sometimes I'm the one that have to wait 5-7 days before someone will click the button to send me the key :) This is just how sometimes things are on SG.

Best way to deal with things like this I found is to join active groups. That way most things happen in under 24 hours :)

hi I understand how it can be annoying to see green online everywhere for days, seeing winner playing on steam and dont take the key (it happened to me and probably to most of those who created gifts) but as others said, if its redeemed in 7 days they're in the rules of the site, so you have to deal with it. And no word despite mail sent, and once redeemed give no word. But is it such a problem? Is there a prejudice? If it happens time to time , don't worry and be patient

+1 to what the ppl above said.

additionally... some ppl use SG mainly through their phone and are sometimes unable to activate anything because they aren't logged in into Steam. they might need to go on their PC to activate them but are too busy doing so

Just here to respond the title question.
I imagine some people come online when they get the E-mail saying they won but if the key isn't there, they might leave the tab open and to the side until they remember to check it again.
It could be that they have steamgifts open all the time to check it occasionally for games but they don't make their plans around giveaway end times so maybe they're out with a friend for a few days and come back to find out they won.
I have wondered why people who use this site appear online so much. I thought leaving your computer on 24/7 isn't good for it and that this community of people who enjoy Steam would know and take good care of their tech so it's always something I've been curious about.
Maybe they are logged in on multiple different devices.
Steam might also open when you turn on your computer, putting you back online even if you aren't doing anything with it.
I don't care too much how long it takes someone to receive their games here but I hope more people come in and explain how their accounts are always online.

Tl;dr, I don't care for my laptop, it doesn't run games well. It is old, I'm waiting for it to die before I replace it with a full computer.
I leave it on 24/7 and keep it plugged in constantly so I don't have to log in and wait for it to boot up every day.
That's why it may look like I'm frequently online even though, I rarely ever sit at my computer anymore for a long period of time.
I check it in the morning for new E-mails, then disappear for the rest of the day.

hundreds of reasons why people dont activate.
->Right now I have one to activate that I just won, and i'm here replying to your topic, and maybe I'll forget to redeem the gift after, because my wife told me to go clean the dishes...
->I'm using the android app on mobile that doesn't have a redeem option on the gifts.
->I'm checking on my phone stuff, and don't want to log into Steam on my phone to redeem via browser
->I'm on a work VPN that blocks STEAM, and not this site.
->I have my browser open all day on the main sites I use, which means I'm 24/7 online although I'm not even on my computer for 19 of those hours.
->My mother had cancer, and I left home with the browser opened to go aid her
->My girlfriend wanted me to have some sexy time with her, and the excuse "wait a bit, I have to redeem my win from SG first" didn't work

Want more reasons? I can guarantee you there are more valid reasons!
People have 7 days to redeem the gift, and you have 7 days to send the gift... It's the rule, no one is causing harm to anyone :)

And there is no gain in not activating a gift! No one is waiting those 7 days on purpose just to be a bad person and to annoy you or anyone!
The question is why do you give so much importance to checking if people were online or not? just try to chill out and you will see your life will be more peaceful instead of giving so much importance to this.

" Because of such people, some people who are preparing giveaways don't hand over the game key right away. I give them credit on this one."
NO! no one in their perfect mind is doing this! They don't give keys right away because they have 7 days to do so, and they have personal lives... Stop blaming the poor people that don't redeem keys as soon as you want them to redeem them, for all the bad things in the world :)

[EDIT]
I remembered to redeem my won gift! Guess I'm not a bad person anymore!

One of my winners viewed the code, but hasn't shown any interest in redeeming it for 2 weeks already. 4 days ago, he won another game from me. Naturally, I requested a new winner. The reply from the mods was that I must send the key to that person again.
Therefore, that person was right , I was wrong. That sets a good example, actually. Don't do any giveaways. When you win, redeem the key elsewhere (on your alt account, for example),, don't mark as received. If the gifter tries contacting you, ignore. You're good.

I go to SG on average 1-2 times a day.
Therefore, I physically cannot activate the keys instantly.
It also happens that I wait for a while if I log in from the phone (it is inconvenient for me to activate the keys from the phone and I prefer to do this when I am at the computer).
I just stated my reasons. Maybe it's different for other people. Also, I rarely delay it for more than a few hours.

Something else to consider: if someone appears to be online on Steam and playing, it may just be ASF. ;)

Like said, they have 7 days. Plus, I see only one giveaway on your feed that hasn't been marked yet, and is only 1 day old. Give them some time. I leave my computer on often, which means it looks like I'm here and on Steam even though I'm away from my computer.

They could just have their browser/steam client open all day. Not necessarily being active 24/7

In the most cases the users that needs 4 days+ and be everytime online on sg and steam + playing games etc. (so def. active with "free time" and not on work etc.) are autojoiner users.
Normaly you see that, very often, very clearly on their stats.

Don't write them emails, write one reminder in a old GA of them (if they ever made one), request after 7 days a reroll and delete the key that the "old" winner can't see the key if he appears in the time till the support handle the ticket.

Copy the key in when you have a new winner.

"Problem" solved.

Against the 7 day waiting time you can't do something in general but in nearly all cases are group GAs much faster and unproblematic, compared with public GAs.

I as always sad and/or pissed off when i need to run behind someone that he please, please, please take his win.
I wrote, in the past, emails, in the comments of steam profiles, in the old GAs (if they had made one) etc. and it brought in exactly NONE of the cases something when the users weren't able/willing to activate the win in the one week timeframe. So i gave up to do this unneeded work and lifetime wasting and say now "i do the absolut minimum, not my job to handle that they take their win".

Besides that ...
You should check accounts/your winners with:
http://www.sgtools.info/activation
http://www.sgtools.info/multiple-wins

If someone have red marks there request a reroll and put the link(s) into the support ticket.

You will learn, very fast, that a lot of the accounts that need 4 days+ to activate a game have much more often red marks (unactivated and double wins) as other accounts.

After years of being active and making giveaways i ended up with a rule for protecting my sanity. If i have to get in touch with the winner so that they activate the key, it is an instant blacklist. Same goes for situations like yours but only for very bad examples.

when i was on vacation once i activated all my wins like 2 weeks due. everyone have reasons, if they are playing a game, let them. they are not obligated with leaving their game just to activate a gift.
most of the time gifts are activated within 24 hours, sometimes longer. i don't even remember when was the last time i waited over a week. oh, no, wait, i do remember. winner was in hospital so they didn't have access to their pc.
just be patient

bots-autojoiner

In very few cases when i see that my winner have multiple unactivated wins, is obviously a autojoiner etc. but i can't provide 100% evidences and a reroll isn't granted i let the winner wait 6 1/2 days till i send the key. They still get more as they deserve.

You should see how aggressive this guys get when you haven't sended the key after 1 or latest 2 days. When you don't react they get with each day more aggressive.
Sad and funny at the same time.

Do that test by yourself and you will be surprised how, the most of them, then act.

Everyone who joins this website accepts the guidelines, therefore, the 7-days rule. Imo it's simple - if someone doesn't activate the game after one week, you request a reroll, no matter the reason.

What I normally do, is write to the winner on Steam/email, if that person didn't collect the key after 2-3 days.

There are lots of valid reasons why one might take several days to activate a key as others have rightfully pointed out. Happened to me once too when I forgot to take my phone on vacation with me that has the Steam app on it. But in reality most users who activate several days later despite showing as being online all the time use autojoiners. It's against the rules but you as a normal user can't do much about it especially without solid proof. If someone looks like an autojoiner you can check for possible broken rules with sgtools and get a reroll based on that. If they are clean there's nothing to do but wait out the 7 days. You might blacklist them after or try to create higher level or group giveaways to avoid these types of users for the most part.

When the 7 day limit is approaching write to the winner under one of their created giveaways if they have one you can access. Writing e-mails or trying to add them on Steam is a waste of time usually. Most people probably don't use their main e-mail for steamgifts and most tend to decline out of the blue Steam friend requests.

If the 7 day limit expires and they haven't even viewed the key then ask for a reroll. If they saw the key (there is a little eye icon next to it) then asking for a reroll is risky. In that case you can try to ask support to set the feedback to positive.

I don't mind waiting when I'm not at giveaway cap (or being impatient to level up), but a few days ago there was a weird win. They kept going on and offline for a few days, viewed the key, did not answer a Steam friend request or any attempts to contact them after viewing the key until I finally had to send an email and they finally confirmed their win, but that's not the weirdest thing! First of all, although the key was viewed it was not activated on their profile. Why would you view a key if you're not going to use it? Fine, may have been breaking the rules, that's bad but not weird. What's really weird is that when I checked their Steam profile it was behaving really weirdly. Tons of achievements, a few game reviews with thousands of hours logged, but zero hours and zero games played on their games page! Looks like I've stumbled across a repeat offender as there are comments on their profile about not marking giveaways.

Needless to say, they're now on my blacklist.