It seems Level 4 public giveaways aren't the answer. The search continues...

Team MouseWheel

Wow, I did not know that was an issue. I will look out for those from now on.

wheel click for me :p.

Too bad regifters...

"And no, as tempting as it is, I'm not going to switch to whitelist-only giveaways."

You'll see the light eventually Yirg ;-) I can't even imagine doing it any other way at this point.

Mouse wheel :)

I'm not sure levels have something to do with this. I've met some lovely people who were level 1 and some regifters who were level 8... I know you don't want to make whitelist only GA but this seems to me the only solution. You can hide some private GA in your comments too, but that makes a lot of work.

You are either one of the unluckiest people on the planet or your criteria on a good winner is way too harsh.
Out of my 600+ winners I had to request a reroll once for breaking the rules, 4-5 times because they didn't bother to activate the gift. And more than half of my GAs are completely public, the rest are for a 10k+ group (plus a few more small groups, but they always go together as one).

Oh, for the poll: I rarely ever open them, but if I do to check if there is anything meaningful in the description (so far in my entered 3-4 thousand, that happened maybe twice…?), I use the overlay function of SG++. Faster and needs less memory, plus easier to just click away.

I just right click and create new TAB...
BTW..
I tried and found out low level have a lot problems but when i switch to level 4-6. I havnt' encountered any issue at all. so I am kinda reclutent to create level 0 and 1 GA anymore...

I click and open in same window on iPad then read description and click back button.

Seven out of nine at level 4 is crazy. I've done huge batches of giveaways with no restriction at all and only had to request rerolls on 15% or so.

I use Steamgifts++, so just click as it keeps hovering on the same page. alternatively, I hold CTRL and click.

ctrl, since I'm on touchpad :D ... or sometimes I use the top right active zone of it, that works as middle click.

In a new tab, by pressing the mouse wheel

What? how does that work?

i do right-click, new tab but I'm gonna try ctrl if I can remember it.

I was slowly working towards level 3 and when i got to it i was so happy!Darn it, now i have to work on gettin' that level 4. JK
Why dont you create some sort of group, you will probably have a lot of members and everyone will be onboard with rules and if not you can always just kick them out?

It was nice to review the rules, and thanks for including games with them. I entered for Joylancer.

Mouse whell FTW!

Man thats just crazy to think u had to reroll for level 4's now even ><. i once had to reroll a GA 3 times and thaught that was too much >< sadly to reduce regifters is to BL them after u filed for a support ticket. The 1 month regift free policy isnt helping either but thats a discussion that has been discussed alrdy many times before :P I geuss the safest way still to reduce risk for expensive giveaways is through Invite only /WL

But i do agree giveaways should be for all levels and not restricted to WL and group /invite only. Though i am not the richest kind of person so i would like my Ga to be falling into the hands to those who made at least 1 GA preferably :)

As for me though in terms of puzzles i have made 2 thusfar and i do tend to make em fairly easy and i even add more hints along the way.
[some previous ones i made ;p 1 & 2

This way u have people enjoying doing your puzzle and arent that put off by puzzles in general i enjoy people's feedback on the puzzle + u reward the people that visit the forums and u reduce the risk of bots /regifters at least from what i have experienced. But sadly in general not much u can do on regifters :(

I didn't know you can use the mouse wheel to open in a new tab!! This will save me so much time in the future <3

Bump and meow. Thanks!

Mouse Wheel, always the wheel.

I get used to "double tapping' on my touchpad on laptop and was kinda lost when started to sit more in front of my PC with M+K. But I accidentally tapped wheel when hovering over a link.. and I never turned back :D

Thanks!
I also created a bunch of level 4 GAs recently. They've all been marked received fine, but I should follow-up and check they have all been activated. Is there an easy way to check? Or just look on the winners steam profile and search for the game?

As for the poll... When I use my PC, I use chrome, and open all links in new tabs. But 90% of the time in use SG from my smartphone while I'm commuting and working. So just click and generally get frustrated at using my terrible phone.

so tired yirg but please have a bump

I've only had to reroll maybe like 10 times for all of my counting level 1 giveaways. Invite only works surprisingly well.