blacklist the blacklister

doesn't apply to me i guess, I have 0 blacklists and I have been blacklisted about 50 times? that's a lot of eyes to take care

Indeed 😅 I've been dry for almost 2 years.

That's a good explanation I can completely agree with but in my personal opinion lotteries and tombolas are just a sub-genre of gambling.

But then again this topic has been discussed at length repeatedly here on SG with people quoting Webster's dictionary and whatnot so I'd rather not get cought up in semantics.

While you're correct about the definition distinction between gambling and lottery*, the association of "lottery" nevertheless doesn't properly relate to SG.

* (Though lotteries can actually be considered a subset of gambling, so it gets a bit less precise in actual usage, and in that same vein there's also the consideration of loot boxes, which are legalized under gambling [in certain countries] while lacking clear competition against ANY other entity.)

TL;DR version:

SG is a raffle site. Raffles guarantee a winner and don't require you to put anything into them, while lotteries require you to put something into them and don't guarantee a winner.

Long version:

Let's start off from your perspective, and circle our way in:

By definition, gambling additionally requires there to be a potential loss to the participant. Hence gambling's broader usage in meaning "to take a risk". If there's no loss, then it's simply "a game of chance"* or, in modern parlance, "Rolling the RNG".

* (Though that term associates with gambling so heavily that one would need to still make clear the intended context- for example, board games or video games that are identified as "games of chance" wouldn't suggest gambling, but when applied to roulette, the lack of gambling intent wouldn't necessarily be clear.)

Just based off the previous consideration lotteries can fall under the scope of gambling if you've comitted something to them, but very explicitly would not if you haven't. From that, we can see a distinction between the two that would favor lottery for association to SG.

That said, historical and modern considerations of lotteries would both, however, generally imply a loss and, further, lotteries aren't expected to have a guaranteed winner (though when they're played against a loss, then they may potentially have a guaranteed loss, as per someone losing a lottery and becoming a ritual sacrifice).

Thus, while lottery may be a more accurate choice than gambling, it's still not quite accurate. Instead- and as per previous SG deliberations on the matter- the general conclusion is that SG is a raffle site, as raffles are expected to always have a winner or winners and are generally associated with not taking a loss (as paid raffles are typically done for charity, while door raffles [ie, raffles you can join in with the only cost being attendance to the event or location] are the other most common example of raffles).

Thus, while some confusion may exist as to whether a non-charitable paid raffle [ie, guaranteed winner but also requiring a loss] is also a lottery, or whether a lottery that you've comitted something to is gambling (though, as previously noted, common and legal conceptions do generally assert that they are), we can determine that SG is induitably a raffle site, and neither a lottery or gambling site.

( That said, the existence of levels has always been a bit of a contentious element, as to whether or not it should count as commiting something, so there's been some argument over that; But as has just been clarified, the site still nevertheless wouldn't fall under either lotteries or gambling by structure, even by that consideration.

However, as with lootboxes, that consideration often gets SG associated to gambling/lotteries as an exception, hence why certain sites- eg, Humble- don't view SG very favorably. Well, in theory. Humble specifically seems to be on drugs in recent years, so there's not really much point in trying to assign logic to their actions. As an alternative consideration, Steam has previously blocked links to SG, though I haven't seen that blocking occur for years now, so that may have been due to different factors entirely. )

whoa there, hold up
why are you bringing Islam here??

You do realize me mentioning islamic extremists (not Islam - islamic extremists like al-Qaida, ISIS or Boko Haram) has nothing to do with whether Muslims gamble or not, right?
Those were two seperate trains of thought.

It was just an (obviously incomplete) list of people where I find it completely acceptable and even recommended to exclude them from your giveaways.

That you believe those people don't exist here on SG only shows you haven't spent such an unhealthy amount of time on this site as I have. Which is obviously a good thing.

They usually like to keep to the shadows and not participate in the community - but they most certainly exist - and will happily leech your giveaways.

A large part of my blacklist consists of members of a group titled "Hitler did nothing wrong". Just saying.

There has been discussions about this as well - people prefer to blacklist the giver instead of hiding the games manually... To clean up the giveaway page.
So its not even personal, its just to hide different cheap games with one click

As Chris said.

Personally I think if you only gave away such games then maybe that is an excuse ... which in your case isn't so.

If you gave away those trash games that are really worth 20c but dev is charging $50, that is a popular reason for blacklisting.

Any discussion about blacklists earns OP a bunch of blacklists. Besides, as was mentioned already blacklisting is a two-edged instrument so there's no need for you to blacklist members who blacklisted you.

Whitelisted you both , have a nice day ! ^_^v

Lol, I received 2 BL in the day I made this comment...
Some ppl are really something else.

So I leave this here in case there are more that wanted and can't find me

Please link to your comment about HB. I want to judge you too! :D