What is the leecher ratio?

The best answer would be:
Won/Sent - syntax error - cannot divide by 0

I've won nothing so far, given away 12 games but not bothered really as at least the money I paid for went to charity.

Anybody with a worse ratio than me is a dirty leecher.

Truth be told, I generally don't care if someone is a leech, a bot, or a script user, as long as they're compliant with the rules.
But if they have a terrible ratio here, and an enormous Steam library worth in the 5-digits, like the user I mentioned in my previous comment, then there's no excuse: they're just petty, horrible, greedy people, who don't deserve any chance at winning.
I'd advise you all to Blacklist such greedy people when you find them, they should be only able to join Bad Rats giveaways until they're willing to fix their ratios.

My criteria is arbitrary and ever changing! Truthfully, it really is dependent more on the person's attitude than any kind of ratio so it's never easy to tell (with the exception of the few brave who basically call themselves out as leechers).

I also have a problem with bots; Skynet is already going to kill us all, it's just a dick move to try and steal our games too.

Bump because I want some normal poll votes. :B

There's multiple criteria to define a leecher - it's especially murky due to bundled game mechanics.

Sent/Won ratio can be padded with dirt-cheap games no one wants. RV ratio doesn't take bundled games into account well enough. CV ratio can be misleading due to unbundled games.

In any case, the varying definition of leeching can have a suppression effect. I've refrained from entering mass developer giveaways because their games were unbundled and would significantly affect my CV ratio in case i won them - even in cases where there more copies were made available than copies that were given out.

A leecher is like a lecher, except he goes for games instead of women.

I don't believe in leeches.

This is a gifting site. If someone doesn't want to gift, then don't gift. It means little/nothing if it's forced.
And I wonder how many people are rushing off to check my won/sent now XD

My leecher test is to submerge in murky waters and when you get out the leechers are stuck to you. I then blacklist those that stuck to my ass because really that's a sensitive place you guys.

I now consider leeches people who enter everything, whenever they wish to play it or not.

I consider leechers only those with extreme ratios like 0/100 0/200 10/300 20/400...

Pretty much depends on personal opinion .

For me anything above 1/10 ratio goes on the bad side ... 1/25+ gets blacklisted .

Tho ppl who just Hoard games for the sake of +1 in their library ... even with decent ratios are getting on my nerves ...

Didn't vote in the poll. I don't care that much about the numbers, as long as people are playing and enjoying the games they win. I don't really check on it, but I assume people are here to win games because they want to play them, and that is what I hope for.

I must admit I wouldn't be super happy if games I bought hoping someone would enjoy went to someone winning hundreds of games only for library +1 or card farming (never playing a single game for real), but not much to do about it.

I have done some giveaways with SGtools CV ratio, but those giveaways have been a way to say thanks to the extra generous members here, not a way to punish low ratio users. I've done plenty of ratio free giveaways too.

Excessive wins : GAs = leech

so what is...

Excessive GAs : wins = ?

I cannot speak for everyone by any stretch, but speaking for myself even the wins that I have yet to crack out are games I really wanted to play. They just fell victim to my backlog like so many other games I purchased for myself with the same intent. As an example: I still have yet to play Metro: Last Light. I own both versions for the PC (I even own it for PS4 and I think the PS3 too). I really enjoyed the first... I really want to play the second, but for whatever reason the damn thing still occupies space in my backlog.

I think I'm considered as one by many here.

Depends on the situation really. I would have considered myself a leecher a couple of months back. But now I don't even enter GA's anymore (only ones I really want, last one was like 3 or 4 weeks ago)(although my ratio isn't that bad either), so how would I ever be a leecher?

There are plenty of people with a low ratio, but I wouldn't consider them leechers.

Very sorry to necro this thread, punish me if you have to. But i really really really have a huge problem understanding the ratio, I´m even kinda starting to regret trying sg-tools because it makes me feel utterly stupid! :E

To make a long story short, if i wanted to keep people that have received four times the ammount of stuff they´ve given (i.e. 101 won, 25 sent) off a GA, whats the rule on sg-tools supposed to look like? Is it "ratio_number_giveaways > 0.25" OR "ratio_number_giveaways > 4"?

Or isn´t even that correct since i´ve messed up the less/greater signs?
I already nuked one of my GA´s by entering a not accpeted value (sg-tools never complained) and only found out hours later about ... tbh at the moment the whole sg-tools thing is more of a hassle than a help for me :_:

I think I'm a prime example of a leecher. Feel free to blackmail me. I can't stop you :(

I voted for 3 wins/sent. I hate math, I don't understand the other options.

I think the 0.25 won/sent option was misunderstood.

Not my case, but I don't understand why someone who is under the 1:1 won/sent ratio (I mean he gave at least as much as he got) would be considered a leecher. Being under it, like 0.5:1 won/sent is being more generous, while being above, like 2:1 won/sent, is being a a little more greedy.

The numbers also kinda matter... A 4:1 ratio isn't that bad when you've won 4 and given away 1 game, but it looks a bit worse when your numbers are 500 won and 125 given.

And we were talking about won/sent until now, but ratio is calculated as sent/won. Maybe that's why some chose 0.25, that would be a 1 sent to 4 won ratio. :)

By the rules only who won nothing and gave something isn't a leecher. ha!
cough cj cough

When you catch one and squeeze him in a paper tissue then the more blood comes out the more the little turd leeched. My cat once had a giant one on him and he soaked the tissue through.

Still fighting this, if you speak maths i´d really appreciate some light shed onto this.

Have tried numerous variations of the rule now, but it never works like expected. Momentarily it´s set to "ratio_number_giveaways > 2" which should translate to "has given 2x more than received", however with that rule in place someone with 173 wins and 194 sent (=1.12) can enter (don´t worry, you´re cool, just crunching numbers here).

Also not showing any invalid entries at all. It seems I might have broken it.
(damn it´s hard not to sound hypocrite, i don´t even dare checking my bl stats after this XD)

Using SGTools to find leeches is a mistake. The proper way is with STools! Ducking stools, to be precise. You throw the user in a pond. If they float, they're a leech; if they drown, they're innocent.