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Cult and CG do however deserve hugs, also I do. Because I'm special.

That, or increase the required steam library value to something not easily avoided.

I own $1800 worth of games. If people who are VAC banned cant join then I would be forced out too. Thats a pretty dumb idea.

While I do agree that VAC bans in general should mean no entry to this site I must admit that I also have VAC bans on my account although I have never cheated. Luckily Cult still was kind enough to invite me here.

I was stupid enough to give my account away for a forum user for a while once I only had some old Counter Strike pack in my account. The guy was supposed to play for a while and give the account back. Once I took the account back and changed the password I had bans in:

winui
Counter-Strike
Team Fortress Classic
Day of Defeat
Deathmatch Classic
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Ricochet
Half-Life
Codename Gordon
Ricochet
Half-Life
Codename Gordon
Half-Life: Blue Shift

I don't mind the bans but it does make my account look bad. Needless to say I learnt my leasson... I think I should have abandoned my account and created new but unfortunately didn't and now it's too late for that.

People have gotten VAC banned who didn't actually hack. I Don't think they should be forbidden from entry to the site for having a VAC ban.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Anti-Cheat

I would be against prevention of people with VAC Bans from signing up, because it is no way relates to their likelihood to post fake giveaways or enter giveaways they shouldn't. I've received bans in games long past for exploiting things, even once resulted in tripling the amount of gold in an MMO overnight (Most of which didn't get deleted). If Steam were able to keep track of such things it would appear on my account and would that be reason to not let me join? Because I did something stupid when I was younger?

All hail the CG. Collect hugs above.

Yes, and anyone with multiple accounts can do this. The person who invited the fake gifter should be investigated in each case.

Lets not start a witch hunt.... thought that is odd.

For one, the problem with wishlist is that it doesn't automatically remove games that one buys. Happened to me countless times, that I just happen to take a look at my wishlist, and see that I have already bought few games, but forgotten to remove them from the list.

Lame users could accidentally drain the point economy by never marking anything as received. There are 179 people who have yet to mark their winnings as received.

That's definitely not a good solution imo, there are lots of legitimate users that have given away games they don't personally own.
One could easily see lots of people want a game and give it away without owning it or even be interested in that game personally.

Now if one owns it and has it on their wishlist and is giving it away, that's more obviously unusual.