Law and Order

It's not a giveaway group, SGC is a group that will maintain order and cooperativity running inside Steam Gifts.

Here we'll keep a index of users behavior for Groups Admins. To get inside you must manage a group of at least 50 users.

It's the beginning of a leech free era!

Doing this, we can keep the leechers away or even convert them, because they will be afraid of our Hammer of Law!

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SGCartel

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Doing this, we can keep the leechers away or even convert them, because they will be afraid of our Hammer of Law

My users are already afraid of ArchiBoT, no need for further terror.

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Haha, don't have the skills!

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Here we'll keep a index of users behavior for Groups Admins.
because they will be afraid of our Hammer of Law

By forming yet another elitist group? I understand the implications of what you're trying to do, weeding out the basket of deplorables, but really?
Let's just have everyone's info in the public then.
Real CV for Sent Gifts on account Chazan 202.66 $
69.9% group CV sent
19.3% public sent

Real CV for Won Gifts on account Chazan 426.95 $
42% Group CV recieved
57.5 public CV recieved

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Admin will be like...?

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Sure you're very more active over here than me, so now I think you're acusing me of being what I'm trying to avoid.

Real CV isn't a thing that we can blind consider but can't be ignored either, if the groups that I'm in says that i'm abusing of my wins, I will be indexed too. No hypocrisy.

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I'm not accusing anybody of anything, and I do believe I understand what you're trying to accomplish, I've just seen too many users lash out against what they would consider "leechers", particularly those that

  1. would not pass their own rules if viewed through a different lens or
  2. users with a "fantastic" ratio act superior to the rest of the community because they have the good fortune and ability to make the choice to give away games here.

While it is certainly frustrating to see continuous rule breaker, rude users, and those certainly out to game the system, it's just as frustrating to see the other side of the spectrum flaunt themselves in my own, completely subjective opinion.

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Well, a sample of a leecher for me is a fella that accumulate 18 winings without saying thanks for anyone, when i added him to talk he said ok and didn't cared about it, so he can't continue with us. Some will accuse me about being elitist but there's rules and good sense.

The group ratio is a balance, allow bad scored people on the group is unfair to those who participate.

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I have a fleeting feeling not many users would pass a sent_cv>won_cv & ratio_public_sent>ratio_public_won check… =)

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I am very proud of my 2:1 ratio, thank you very much :cry:

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There, there. Here, have a VirtualCookie™ to make you feel better. ^.^

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Yep, by definition people that want to win much should focus on getting inside group currency (such as ratio), and spending it in that group, so everything they win due to public giveaways is an extra debt that won't be paid if user wants to maximize his profits.

Not everybody acts like that though.

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I'm not attempting to say they should there. This is a site centered around winning steam gifts after all. I have no problem with a "bad" ratio in of itself. giving should be a choice, not some publicly mandated rule. After all, if you want to have a 2-1 ratio yourself, someone must win those gifts. If we all had 1-1, this site would be nothing more than randomized trading.

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Well, try to tell it those who are obsessed with the leeching thing. I wish we'd put more emphasis on actually playing won games rather than seeing who won how much, but movements like BLAEO or the Play Your Wins months are still rather small.

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I agree. I've been entering only wishlist and dev. GA's for over a year now, and I'm cranking down on that backlog myself. Just finished another 5 or so wins this month. I got in the habit of starting a great number of wonderful games for a while, but not finishing them. I'm at about 20% beaten right now, but it's going up pretty fast now that it's easy to track with BLAEO, and the motivation's there. It's disappointing to give away a wishlisted title, only to see it hasn't been touched in a year.

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SGTools helps to pinpoint a good target demographic for a certain game, but, well… restrictions and invite-only giveaways even in frequented topics still have a very small reach.
sigh I really do think that maybe the site is just too big now for its own good. (On the other hand, if I was a sociology student, I could most likely write my diploma work and my doctorate thesis just on the user base behaviour here. ^_^)

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Then again, maybe people not passing shouldn't try to run some anti-leech cabal...

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Eh, if we only value people based on numbers, then it just turns the site into a Republican's wet dream: a place where only the top 0.1% has a saying in anything and the rest has to pump money in the system to join them or just accept their word. Or, in short, we'd be even more elitist assholes. In this regard, I don't care where ideas come from. (Granted, in this thread's case, I am not exactly sure what the idea is, but that is another point. ^^')

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Oh god, I just realized that I'm in the 1% people are going to protest me. =O I know they should all just eat cake! Or you know not spend all their money on iphones and buy games to give to strange people on the interwebs. That's how you pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

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Bad explained maybe. The idea is to keep the "may i join?" smart one away from the group. How? We get the name/link from those we know that is common to goes wrong and index him till he changes his mind.

People still think that there's people who spend money on a setup and don't have how to spend on their games. Man, when i couldn't afford for steam games i always found alternatives. Why does leechers cares about original gifts?

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just saying, you should check your real cv before condemning leeches. sent:won ratio is nothing.

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I won bundled, i gave bundled. Real CV is complicated if we really consider that we get packs of games for $1.

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At least not in the same comment, dammit.

Bundled is complicated if we really consider that Bad Rats is bundled and Bioshock Infinite as well.

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It is unjust, true.
Bad Rats should be undunbled and give double CV.

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Only double? :(

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Let's not be too unfair.
But maybe Bad Rats 2 could give triple CV, since it is not as widespread as the first one.

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WIthout joking, I feel the same about Fortix, they should be un-bundled. Or maybe shouldn't, but it would make me so happy - nobody would fish CV with a 1 (or 2) $ game when there are IG bundles around, and we would get to keep more meme-giveaways :)

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There's no focus over here anymore, they always conflict over Real CV on general or anywhere.

I'm trying to create something for the groups. I'm not sad about people arguing over here, but I can't understand why uninterested in the index come here and try to bomb what even didn't started. If no one gets interested on it, the thread dies with the idea.

Sorry if it offend someone.

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The problem is that you are stirring up a hornet's nest. It is not a secret that elitism is a large problem in the forum-goer active community, and that the site has a ton of small closed groups which are almost like trading groups that also happen to farm CV in the meantime. (And the occasional groups that are small but a bit more… positive in approach, like acting as extended wishlists.)
Additionally, self-policing SteamGifts has led to some rather nasty arguments in the past. Self-policing giveaway-oriented groups has an even worse track record/infamy.
Your heart may be in the right place, but there are so many factors, so many smaller views on how this site should work and approach its user base can be clashing here that I doubt it you or anyone could find an answer. (I mean, look at it: not even the site admin, who in the past has been—jokingly—revered as sort of a SteamGifts deity, can now introduce changes that don't meet at least a moderate amount of vocal discontent. And he still has the largest influence on the crowd.)

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Referral links are not allowed in the community xD

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Yep… it would be difficult to top that little drama festival in the near future.

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Real CV shouldn't ever be considered for anything (my opinion).

It doesn't matter to me how much money someone spent on this or that game.
What actually matters is how much money I'm not spending or simply don't have at the time to spend.

A good game goes on sale for 75% off: lots of people buy it while I can't currently buy it.
It doesn't matter to me they only spent $15 on it, what matters is that I'm not having to spend $60.

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but I can't understand why uninterested in the index come here and try to bomb what even didn't started

Because you're posting in discussions, not on a trading post or in a newspaper. If somebody wants to express his opinion about particular thing, he's free to do so.

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Doing this, we can keep the leechers away

I wouldn't be so quick to toss about words like "leech," because "leeching" means different things to different people, and for some, you might fall into that category.

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Well, I definitely don't fit the whole none leecher thing. I leech. I leech all the time, far more than I give honestly. Leecher powers activate.

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leecher power charging

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Everyone says that, couldn't imagine a different word with my limited vocabulary. Give me a light please.

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There are all kinds of definitions of "leech" on SG. A portion of people believe if you've won more (in CV value) than you've given, you're a "leech." Others believe that if you've won games and given none back, that qualifies you as a leech. Still others believe if you make only group giveaways but enter/win public giveaways, you're still another kind of leech. The list of possibilities goes on and on ...

I dislike the word myself. We're all here "leeching" (wanting) something, so I find it a poor reason for one person to point their finger at others. But it does happen, and I can understand their point of view, even if I don't always agree with it.

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Thanks for the definition of the word. Indeed i'm a leecher from publics GA for some eyes. Ouch!

Well, it's polemic because it's manual, seems like personal, we got to do the dirty work of selecting the users manually, so the rules are somehow adjustable for the situation, and people didn't even read them. If it was automatic from SG group tool, everything would runs different.

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Well, my point was that there is no true "definition" of the word, and that it varies from person to person, so any of us could be called a "leech" by someone.

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or even convert them, because they will be afraid of our Hammer of Law!

All shall tremble before my mighty hammer ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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lol

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Any group that needs any more background information on applicants than already available is probably small and restrictive enough to pull their members from a small pool of users where there's some sort of reputation established already.

So.... why would any groups join a cartel? Even then--why join your cartel?

You offer no valid justification or solid information about it. You haven't put any work into the group or even just developing the idea. And you lack any apparent qualifications or credibility of leadership.

It seems that any authority, responsibility, or influence you even have would only come from people all signing up here and handing those very things over to you. So, why should they? Why would they?

The risks likely outweigh the potential reward. The whole idea just seems really susceptible to abuse. Is there a cartel tracking the reliability of potential cartel leaders I can check with?

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Good point, it's the old "who watches the watchmen?" problem.

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There will be a SG Reptilian World Order behind the public one

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So now i've claimed the group for me? Why? Because i've created it? Ok, so if it was a LVL10 member the idea would be appreciated! I get it from your point of view, the problem is me. Hahahahahaha... Pff... I'd like to share some ideas, they aren't always the best and indeed SG "lords" likes to disturb the subject a little, but it's okey.

I answered the questions you've made on this thread, just put the pieces together, you're smart.

Well, saying like this it seems that we should only gave our thrust to those who have qualification, credibility or leadership, but if my idea didn't fits to your requirements or needs, i really don't care if i'm qualificated, have credit or can be your leader somehow because our interests conflict and you don't need it, you're just here to talk and "follow the wind" like the others that saw an opportunity to make they dead sunday less dead on a subject that has been dealt a lot of times ON THE RIGHT PLACE.

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Yeah, make the site even more elitist, I'm sure that won't end badly.

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Is the site elitist? Because the vast majority of giveaways are done publicly, and they're for lower levels.And people do give good games for the lower levels ie not bundle trash. Most people don't use Sgtools either, is there an elitist element to it, of course there is. But even then it's a blip. It's not like I'm smothered in lvl 10 giveaways of AAA games, or even AA games, I don't honestly look that hard for them to be honest. I am after all a massive leech

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Is the site elitist?

I just tried to find the most recent public GA you did.

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I don't do public, public giveaways anymore. I did public/private giveaways if I so choose, that doesn't make me elitist. I give to every level group except 0, because I honestly think that everyone can sell a few cards and pick up something small to giveaway. If that makes me elitist then so be it. Once I hit level 10, I stopped doing those public/private giveaways, and there's a reason for that. I don't like cheaters also fuck trains. It's a bit of a headache when some people link my links and post them on a site just because I happen to give non-bundled games for the most part. Again, doesn't make me elitist, most of the giveaways that I have given have been public, even if they are labelled private. Hell even when I used SGtools it was the most basic choices. The fact that you weren't aware that you could enter my giveaways when I was doing them doesn't mean anything to me, nor does it make me elitist. You could have if you had notice, as could most people if they met simple requirements like having given a game.

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/QkT1k/flash-friday-giveaway-event
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/AGtgT/this-is-a-goodbye

Now I'm in several groups all of which have varying levels in them and I give games to them, people who generally give more and have rotten luck. This was after a massive break from SG. Ironic thing is there is probably going to be a train on my birthday that is public/private. Probably not. Fuck Trains. Fuuuuuuck trains.

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Just to react to your post directly:
Either you're sooo wrong as everyone says about "leechers"
OR
you really, really should clarify that you're talking about people who entered various GA groups to leech from there, breaking the group's rules in the process. If this is the situation then your idea would be more welcomed as it would be an ethical problem with those people, not monetary (so not their ratio, but their behaviour would be the problematic)

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Why I've come to this. So, if you don't agree I close and assume that i'm wrong. No big deal.

I encountered a situation that I think it's very common at all the groups. A couple of users (same guys) that were always at the "end of the page" on the groups that i'm inside.

I'm sure that you're making a big situation over something simple over here. I just want to set a place to index the bad intended people. Groups are created for those who wants to share, why you say that you want to join, accept the rules just after the winnings? How can it be right?

I can't get the drama here, it's a polemic thing, I get that... I get that we can check the user intentions manually too, and we can check his behavior after sometime, but this kind of behavior hurts the group because as i keep repeating: IT'S a GROUP, with rules to make it fair for everybody, so why pretend that you care if you just want to be selfish?

Skip this part if you want:
I've been inside only 5 groups in the few months i'm here. The first I gave a non bundled, got some bundles, didn't get how it worked, the admin goes rude because I asked users to enter a GA, went bad, so he dropped me out. The second I was totally positive, almost 3x my winnings, got my monitor broken and can't participate, the admin came with some shit and I went out before he did it. I run one, fairly positive, keeps my ratio 1:1 on the other and exited the another due to inactivity from the crew. So i decided to create one, with adjustments that guarantees that everyone inside gets comfortable, and it's working beside this common problem. I managed to fix some issues, users are ok now because they get what we have to do to keep the group running! Others that cannot be reverted just went out with their prizes, and didn't ever showed appreciation for those who gave to them. It could be avoided if i know somehow that those ones aren't trustable.

You know that groups are elitists, you don't stay on a group if you don't do it right. Stop the drama and look straight.

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And have you stopped for a moment and looked at yourself?

Since I changed the entire fundaments of my Touhou Giveaways group from giveaways to community, we had ZERO leechers that would be kicked due to excessive leeching since end of 2015. We organize recruitments on usual basis, we accept lots of new faces on usual basis, I'm personally sending my staff after new people, doing 1 hour long introduction how the group works to ensure that nobody is alone, confused, or feels uneasy. We encourage every member to join us on the chat, we're organizing lots of public and private events, and the entire group is so positive that many existing members call it a true utopia created inside SG. I spent hours on coding anti-leechers ArchiBoT module that kicks people as soon as it finds them in giveaways they're not eligible for, and the only usage of it since end of 2015 is notifying members that they should leave giveaways once somebody wins a ratio-killer - this is a giant success.

If you're trying to build a group without community aspect, then don't expect from people to act like one. The group is as strong as the leader is.

Hierarchy didn't means anything in our group, DEMOCRACY is the word!

Then don't expect from your group to work if majority of people you recruited don't care about it and see it as +1 to their list of groups they win giveaways from.

https://touhou.justarchi.net/about/rules

We reserve the right to remove you from group at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. Being part of the group is a privilege, not a right

Effect? In the screenshot. 40+ people each day talking/playing with each other in the best possible atmosphere, far away from dramas, insults, and huge amount of salt.

I believe everybody should have one group he feels very positive about, and I'm group leader myself so I know how awesome it is to do something positive for the people - but you've just built the same group as 7239 people before you, with the same rules and the same concept, and now once you realized that nobody cares you want to create yet another group (because group with inside VIP group itself is not enough) that would organize public witch hunt after "leechers", and now you expect from other people to join you. How are you in position to state who is a "leecher" and who is not? Why should I join you, if I don't share any of your problems, neither your point of view? And if you target your post to those 7239 groups similar to your one then why should they join you, if they don't care at all about your one?

I don't want to discourage you, neither spread negativity, since I know your problem as I also went through this, but you're attempting to fix syndrome of your issue and not the cause. You're trying to build a house from half-broken bricks and you expect from people to create alliance marking the worst kind of bricks so you can ensure that you have 1/4 quality bricks and above, instead of putting effort in making existing ones better.

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Man, that was poetic. Thanks for spending your time, indeed the initial idea was to reunite the leaders, talk about everything and yes, this polemic subject too. Everyday we should improve something, fix something.

Indeed i really don't believe that i could manage a group and that a lot of people would get interested on in, i'm truly happy about it. The issues are related with the members when i fix them, and now they're becoming more active with the pools.

When i got this idea, i just figured that there are some common issues that should have common solutions, i'm happy that i haven't spent time or resources on a larger project, because it'll not work!

Thanks again, there's reason to keep this alive anymore and thank you guys for the BL hahaha, means a lot!

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I'm actually happy that you understood that I'm not attacking you and that I actually want to help you, now go make your group better! :3

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Although I'm completely against this idea I can't help but feel most people have completely missed the point here.

Maybe try to change the phrasing of the OP a little. First of all you're not talking about leeches, you're talking about rule breakers so maybe switch to that? Leeching is just one way you can violate a ratio group's rules but not the only one.
So maybe something like "catalogue people breaking rules of the group they've been" instead of "index users behavior"?

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I completely got OP's point and I still believe that this is complete nonsense due to no regulations whatsoever, and people that could regulate it to some degree don't have a need to do so. I don't want to see people getting on public shame list for being kicked from some specific group. Such thing could work only if every group followed the same rules, for example what is happening with scammers and steamrep (and even that one has many flaws).

And this is with me participating only in my own group and being completely neutral towards such thing existing or not as a group-leader, since I simply wouldn't use it in any way. Member-wise I'm against though, this is a very bad idea straight from its fundaments.

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100% with you, there's way too many ways this can go wrong

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It's not supposed to be public, just saying...

As i'm trying to keep leveling up on SG, i really don't care about the others ratio, but users on my group does and i'm trying to protect the group from those that aren't fairly enough.

But it's already done.

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Yeh, got a little twisted on words choose and it sounds a little natzi, heh. Didn't expected so many emotion!

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So much good ol' SG drama up in here :].

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Closed, dead idea, sorry.

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Closed 7 years ago by Chazan.