Question about abusing the level system.

Need 5 entries for private/group/whitelist to be valid.

You need at least 5 entries to get any CV for giveaways.

EDIT: Ninja'ed by 16 seconds!

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Give games for fun not for cv..

You need 5 entries for the giveaway to have "value". But outside of that - yeah, it would work. But only for some time. In the end, the only thing you would get from this is a hit from ban hammer.

It would; when you have 1 person and 5 understanding friends... But that would be obvious I think for support.

Less obvious would be like 10-20 understanding friends and be harder to spot.

In the end there will always be a few morons that cheat the system like you have a few rotten apples tainting other apples in the basket....

Thing is as those friends won and didn't activate games they would each be suspended and eventually banned as the unactivated wins accumalated till you ran out of friends to use here for that scam.

"I have not done this and would never consider doing this."

Really? If you're absolutely honest...in your heart. Really?

And don't worry, the rules and system cover against this kind of abuse.

forgot step 6: get banned

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There's a much more common way to "abuse" the leveling system - through Steam groups. You get a group of people together who all plan to buy the same games, and just have them create and win GAs for the group instead of purchasing them for themselves directly. With the proper group rules and organization in place, everyone gets the games they would have purchased anyways, spending the same amount of money, and they get CV credit for all of it, all without benefiting anyone outside of the group at all. These same people are of course also free to enter all of the public/forum GAs that they want, at their very inflated levels (leech). This is why a lot of giving-minded people and groups look at how much you have gifted in public GAs and your involvement in the community (posts, private/forum-public GAs) when considering people for whitelists and membership, not just the limited numbers reported in SG.

It can be done, it might have happened. Most cases it's quite obvious and i've seen some that were banned, though they were not intelligent enough to even come close to pull that of.
In any case it would still require all of the friends involved to buy the games themselves, only for one to get the cv, it seems kinda stupid to me
And yes 5 people are required, and not the same 5 each time