[Group] Got games? No? Maybe this is a group for you [update: we're in business]

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Giveaway group: KickstartGifts

This is a new giveaway group that's intended to have a rotating membership of people with the best opportunity to make use of the gifts. What do I mean? Read on and you'll get the picture.

Here are the rules:

To start off with the bleedingly obvious: you must have a SteamGifts profile. That means you have a minimum of $100 worth of games.
You may not have more than $250 worth of games. This is measured using Steam Gauge and appeals to this number are not possible.
If, at any point in time, the value of your account exceeds $250 (or your profile is private), you should remove yourself from the group. If you don't, I'll do it for you. This event is supposed to be a happy occasion. :-)
I don't participate in giveaways myself. If I enter in a group giveaway you create and I win, you can request a new winner from Steamgifts support.

That's the basics. Here are the sanity checks:

No sinning. VAC bans, trade bans, SteamGifts suspensions and scammer listings on SteamRep are all reasons to be removed from the group.
No begging. If you want to debase yourself, do it on your own time.
No trading. There are other venues for that, like our sister site SteamTrades.

That's it, those are the only rules. In particular, you don't have to create any giveaways, have a minimum contributor value or maintain any sort of ratio. In fact, I don't expect anyone to "do" anything within the group at all. There'll be at least one person doing giveaways, namely me. For now, my plan is to have one giveaway every two weeks, just to see how things go. It's not very exciting, I know, but it's free, so what have you got to lose?

The only way to enter the group at this moment is to post a link to http://www.mysteamgauge.com with your profile, so I can immediately check if you qualify.

Please mind the following "don'ts":

Don't bump your own request. you will not actually get any response until I've taken my sweet time, which could be a while.
Don't simply ask if you can join without a link. If you have to ask, you're doing it wrong, and I'm going to ignore you entirely.
Don't send friend invites to me. They will all be ignored.

Aside from join requests, ideas and general remarks are welcome. But no, the $250 figure isn't going to be raised to whatever you've got so you can join. :-)

Update. As Azzaboi pointed out, a cynical person could use this as an opportunity for getting more games for themselves while giving none to others. This is not my intent, so I added a new rule that's enforceable by Steamgifts support.

Update 2. I've noticed that "post a request" and "don't ask if you qualify" are potentially contradictory. :-) To make things slightly easier on me, from this point on (23-11 17:36 UTC), please post a link to Steam Gauge with your profile. I'm not penalizing earlier posts that didn't include this and you don't need to update.

Update of November 29th: it's alive! You can now also join the group by posting a comment on my profile. I will keep this post open for a little while longer so people can see it, but I'll close it in a bit.

11 years ago*

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Azzaboi

No Offence, but there's one thing I really hate about higher powers creating rules, which they themselves cannot demostrate and will not keep.

If you create a rule - rule of thumb is you should also follow it to show your not corrupted or abusing your own system.

Just a warning to others - according to your own rules, the admin should leave or be kicked from your own group...???

"You may not have more than $250 worth of games"
http://www.mysteamgauge.com/account?username=nudiustertian

"I know, but it's free, so what have you got to lose?"
A lot of games leeched from giveaways then kicked... while one uses and profits off all more.

"But no, the $250 figure isn't going to be raised to whatever you've got so you can join. :-)" About sums it up, however you did mention you would do most of the giveaways yourself?

11 years ago