Giveaway types

Wishlist giveaway, this means ppl will create scrips to put every game on wishlist.

I wonder if an optional Entry limit would be something to consider. Like first 300ppl to join and then it closes to get a better chance at things etc.

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaways/search?type=wishlist

(I know you mean something different, but sviat covered why that isn't a site feature.)

It's too easy to cheat through this system by using a script to add every games on Steam to one's wishlist. Also, not necessarily everyone use the wishlist function (I didn't used to), or they simply don't add everything they want to it (like I still do).

You all thinking like paranoids - all around cheating, use scripts etc.

I don't always maintain my wishlist.
The only time I ever really sort and organize it, is during the steam sales where there is a slight, slight, slight, possibility of a few lucky steam members winning things off their wishlist.
I've never been one of those lucky people and these events haven't even happened for awhile.
Its nice to hear when a game on my wishlist has gone on sale I guess... But sometimes I can't afford to buy it even if it's on sale... and it comes in handy for quickly finding the games I want to put points in on SG
I think people might use their wishlist in different ways. Some people put every single game they don't already own on their wishlist. Some people play and buy games, but don't use a wishlist at all. They just remember what they want to play. I know some people who use it like a gift registry... adding just a few games because they know a friend or family member might choose something as a gift for them. If someone (like a friend or grandma for example) is going to choose something off the list, it would be nicer if they saw and chose something like GTA 5 then Bat Rats, (even if you might want both games...) Not to mention some stuff can't even go on wishlists, some pack/dlc included editions...
Whether something is there or isn't, may not indicate how much someone wants the game. Sometimes I don't even know about a game until I've seen it here, and it might just be exactly the type of game I've been hoping to play. (and hopefully I'll have the time and sense to add it to my wishlist so I remember it when I don't win it on SG) :)

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As other said, there are scripts to add every game on Steam to your wishlist. Also there are a lot of people who don't use the WL feature.
You can always make whitelist giveaways and pick who enters in your giveaways.

see, the problem is i haven't gone all of the games on steam. i have a lot on my wishlist, but i really find some cool games here (both forum and public GA). sometimes they are added to the wishlist after.
it's not that i don't really want them, it's that i haven't heard of them before...

You use very odd arguments.

Idn... i already add tons of games to wishilist- 700+, soon 800... i use my wishlist as a filter, games to watch(some ea for example), games to check later... the games i wish most i don't need to be reminded i wish anyway and my closest friends know wich they are...

Making users only be able to enter giveaways for games on their wishlist isn't a bad idea, provided a few other things go along with it, like a low enough maximum wishlist size (10?) and having to wait e.g. a week between clicking to add a game to the wishlist and having it appear on it. All that combined would certainly curtail the "enter every giveaway I see" practice.

Haven't checked recently, but if the Steam API supports it, one option could be to apply this theoretical giveaway type to only the first -- let's say 10 -- items on a person's wishlist. This would mostly bypass the add-everything-via-script worry. However, this would rely on a portion of the API that has been pretty shaky in the past (it previously couldn't retrieve more than 20 items, iirc, and I don't know if it's guaranteed to retrieve them in the correct order). And of course you still might have some people swapping their wishlists about and re-syncing, which would be annoyingly unnecessary work for the server. But otherwise, there's a mostly reasonable option.