I'm going to ask a serious question from a position of neutrality (well, sorta): what do you think of SGtools giveaways? I've used SGtools in the past, and while I don't think it's been a problem, since I'm usually a softy and give the link to people who ask politely, I know a lot of people are vehemently opposed to it. I suppose that I fall somewhere in between; I don't want to discourage people from creating giveaways just because some rule breaker or leech entered their past giveaways and they don't want to give games to people who "don't deserve them" (this is what I assume their reason is, not my opinion myself) but at the same time the system does have flaws, and while I respect knsys for doing a solid job of essentially maintaining the tool for free and trying to make it a viable tool for the community, sometimes people use it in ways that create drama. I've used SGtools only a few times, and as someone who created six giveaways with the tool I haven't had any issues with leaks (except once, when two out of three of my links for an event got leaked, and I was actually rather upset because the criteria were quite lax and it was partially my fault for not setting a level 1 requirement for a giveaway that had a minimum CV requirement, which is clearly too much temptation for some people to bear, but I digress, since I would have been just as bitter about a linked puzzle giveaway or something like that). I can understand why people say you shouldn't use SGtools, but I can also understand the arguments for, so I'm interested to hear from both sides.

To raise the stakes, serious answers of more than 100 words will get you whitelisted (or removed from blacklist if you've been naughty, unless you've done something truly egregious). Ad hominem attacks (in original responses OR REPLIES) will get you blacklisted, because the forums have enough drama. Drama about blacklist/whitelist will get you... well, let's just guess on that one, alright? Answers of less than 100 words are appreciated, but will not reward candy. After we get five or so solid responses I'll make a giveaway for something, okay? Can't promise it will be good, but it will be something.

The poll has two options on purpose; I didn't forget the stupid potato option.

To check if you made it in: http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/o5lN2/chivalry-medieval-warfare
If you're a salt miner, you won't notice the difference. Rough. :3

Giveaway: http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/29e31418-fd04-11e5-a85e-04019cc0dc01

If you would rather not use SGtools, the link is also in the whitelist giveaway. I will not be checking for invalid entries nor reporting the list of invalid entries. It's just to make sure that people read the thread and don't just come here for the giveaways. :3

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SGTools giveaways are the best thing that happened to this site since I joined, allowing far more users to join than level-restricted giveaways. Practically all of my giveaways are now open to Level 0 users, thanks to SGTools. No way this can be considered as a negative change, except maybe by rule breakers.

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