Add "Deleted" under Gifts Sent in user profiles

And some even creating fake giveaways to later delete it on purpose. I agree

I just now learned that the deleted GAs aren't listed in the window that shows up when you hover over the number of GAs created, I honestly thought it was one of the items but apparently I was wrong. They do show up in my list of created tho (the one accessed from the gift button), so there's clearly some sort of tracking going on.
Maybe CG will see this thread and consider it, I personally think the number should be publicly shown in the profile page.

"There could be argument should these include those deleted before ending or not... I think only those deleted after end date should be listed as such."

The before ending it's very difficult to properly track as you need "time". I mean.. It's one thing to delete a ga a few minutes or even a few hours after it began (if it is one that runs for a long time) and another to have 100 delete of which all 100 are deleted last hour before the ga ends (which again I have no idea why would anyone keep doing this on purpose :/ )

For those deleted after it's a lot easier amd there aren't many scenarios :P Either the key was duplicate/invalid/wrong game or locked region (I don't think I forgot anything)

Recently I had an unpleasant episode when a winner asked for a reroll, but I'm pretty sure that they'd actually activated the said key on an alt account. A reroll winner said the key was a dupe. They were decent about it and agreed to a GA deletion. Should I be punished for that somehow?

Unneeded because the number itself don't say if someone abuse the deletion possibility.

Very easy example:
Let's assume someone give Lootboy Keys away, that are often dupes, so he have a high number.
A other one give only 2 games away that get deleted because they were 50p fakes.

Alone from the numbers would be the first seen as "bad", the second not.

You mean like this?

View attached image.

i've deleted two giveaways, the first because i've linked the wrong package with the game and the second, because i've selected the wrong game ... i'd say context is important and should be therefore be decided individually

That is nice idea, because you lose comments as well. It shows you if someone is polite and understand if you get problem with game and you are allow delete it. I sometimes look on unrecieved gifts to see what sort of person I deal and since you can see only refuses to delete, you may find some really disgusting stuff like a person forcing creator buy him any different game to allow him delete it, because he wanted +1. And if someone decided after years that he will allows deletions... we will never know as they were deleted.

IMHO it's not a good idea because this number would only pillory the people (I am not sure if I have translated this idiom correctly). Once you get some deleted giveaways the number would be there forever and you can't do anything against it unlike a non-activated gift which can be easily fixed. Also there are cases like forgotten (or unknown) region restrictions or I once had a giveaway where the winner already had the game and there was no one left to re-roll.

I have deleted 18 giveaways, 8 of those were deleted because of wrong info right after making the giveaway meaning they had not ended yet so no winner was effected. 1 was deleted for region issues, 5 were deleted because devs revoked keys which actually ended up costing me more money because I purchased replacement keys which of course still did not work because they were revoked. The last 4 that were deleted were lootboy keys which was given away in the lootboy group which allows for deletion because lootboys gives dupe keys sometimes. I have given away thousands of games and paid to replace most duplicated keys but sometimes I can not provide a replacement in those very rare cases compared to my amount of giveaways done I do not think I should be punished for such nor should anyone else with similar issues.

I don't see the point of it. Games get deleted for a multitude of reasons. I've had an entire bundle revoked on me from HB that wasn't marked in Barter or any discussion topics about it. I replaced the keys and had the giveaway deleted. The only ones who may need that info are mods and they can already check.

Unlike your other ideas, I like this one a lot. It seems people delete giveaways to avoid some stupid number in profile that nobody even looks at ("not received"). So they definitely deserve to have another stupid number in their profile instead, maybe this will stop them from abusing giveaway deletion.

Hmmm.. The more I read of this the more it sounds like a "witch hunt". I mean this in the sense that it feels to me as an annoyance for some very specific deletes.. And those are veeeeeery hard to monitor.. I don't mind it as a stat but it won't show what you would want to find out. But adding "punishment" to this would be unfair in a large portion of cases)

As for groups like lootboy or agree to delete (mostly keys from other ga's or grey shops) are just for that.. Keys with a chance to be duplicates or invalids BUT it's out of the creators control. On the other hand they are "free" but not exactly free, they require time, some others effort and so on. And there would be no other way to obtain those keys for many people so given that the majority requires tasks or a small amount of money it's not worth removing them completely. Yes of course you can gift them out but that you can do with any key. Others can't use the applications or mini games at all, others don't want to take the store risk, etc.. So chances are those keys would "die" in a trading file in hopes of something..

From what I see you want to solve a very specific problem that requires a whole new system all together.. I don't know if it's possible or how but a plain stat won't help with this as the reasons to delete a ga are too many (the minor ones) and every circumstance is different.

The biggest problem is that mainly.. You want to find the "rotten apples" and that task cannot even be achieved in real life when you know someone.. Let alone behind a screen in situations that cannot be proven to be truthful or faulty.. (if a key was dup, if it got activated elsewhere, if it worked, if it got revoked , if if if if..)

Why though?

I feel like a certain amount of discrimination already happens here on SG. People will target you for blacklist if you have a "not received" or two on your profile. I've seen discussions on that where people were like "X even has two not recieved on his profile" and I was like..."ah, so that's why people feel threatened by having a not received". That shouldn't be the case, especially when the person has a good overall record, but it happens. People feel like they need to have GAs deleted when they go wrong because of the culture created by certain elitists. Even I feel like having a "not received" is dirty because of the negativity attached to it. It's not right considering most people who do GAs are playing by the rules and it's not always financially possible to replace a key in the unlikely event that it doesn't work, but it's the way it is.

We don't need more reasons to point fingers at people. If someone is making fake GAs, the mods will deal with them and I'm sure they get permanently banned if they do it more than once. I don't think we need to witch hunt the good people who actually do gift stuff because of a few bad apples.

Have to agree with others that it's a bad idea. No keys are 100% safe though of course there are better sources and worse. But why discourage people from making giveaways with say Lootboy and IG Feudalife keys? It would be a waste to just throw those keys away. There are even specialized groups for these so I don't see the harm.

And more importantly there are enough ways already to judge each other. It's somewhat funny how some power users blacklist each other based on RCV ratio, played wins ratio or whatever while the vast majority of the site's users never make a giveaway or only did a few to have access to more GAs.

Display the number of times the GA is deleted.
More than that...
Remove the reason for GA deletion.
Isn't this it?

What kind of behavior caused the GA to be deleted?
That's the question.
If those are the numbers, then it becomes a discussion of guilt, innocence, or emotion.

The reason why we are under pressure to remove GAs is that it would violate the terms of admission in SGTools.
Or is it the sight of each person viewing a profile that has been marked as "not received" or "accidental", scrutinizing the comments, and adding them individually to the block list?

I think it's safer to replace "reason" with "☑ not receive" for deletion.
"☑ not receive" →”reason"　chenge(´>Θ<`)ゝ)

Currently, deleted GAs can be found in the archive.
https://www.steamgifts.com/archive/deleted
They are assigned a "reason".
Few people will look at them.
I sometimes look at them for various reasons.👀

We can leave the GA showing that there was an accident(reason) in the community.

Good idea, because the site already shows "not received" count, without showing the reason (it may be an evil GA or an evil winner, or only something that went wrong). So... why not add the "deleted" count ? I would even want to see the opposite stat (the number of GA I entered that were deleted) to make it looks more "fair".

This would only make people like me stop doing giveaways. I wouldn't even think about trying to do giveaways if it still showed no. of deleted giveaways. I simply wouldn't risk it at all.
At best, maybe do 1 giveaway for reaching level 1. That's the reason I joined groups like "lootboy" or "delete giveaway if key doesn't work".
But I am hundred percent sure the only use of this option would be more restricted giveaways with sgtools and more requirements for joining a group.

I'd like the inverse as well,
Number of times winner has agreed to delete a giveaway. 🤣

The real problem is that the rules loophole of "please allow me to delete this giveaway" has been supported by the moderators so people can keep their records clean on some unaffiliated third-party site. Rather than a visible counter of deleted giveaways, I'd rather see people actually have to take their "Not Received" feedback the way the site is actually intended to work, so if someone gives away a lot of shady maybe-working keys, you can see that before entering their giveaways and have some level of confidence that someone with a clean record is actually going to give you the key.

TL:DR: Ban "please agree to delete" giveaways to solve this problem..

I'm kinda mixed here.
Certainly it is more interesting when someone creates 5 Death Stranding, Cyberpunk etc. giveaways and then deletes them (Whitelist-, Clickfarming) than various revoked, wrong keys over multiple years.
An extraordinary high number of deletions of finished giveaways sure would be interesting.

In the end I doubt this can be done neutral, a value that is not at least a bit frowned upon.
From moderators perspective this might look very different, I don't know how great these numbers are.

As mentioned there is the Archive https://www.steamgifts.com/archive/deleted which gives a non user specific view.

I think agreeing to deletion should be a common courtesy but not received giveaways often show more about gifter and winner as some number could.

Agreed with OP, those "let me delete if key doesn't work" requests that became really fashionable in the last few years annoy me to hell.

Own your mistakes or don't give away keys from shady sites... I can't see any other reason for these deletions than vanity. They lose the GA slot either way - if marked as not received or deleted.

Bumb. This is still clearly needed.