Contributor giveaways are regular giveaways now.

+1
Also, SentoX's statemen of "As it becomes easier to abuse the system, people will ask for people with more value, forcing people that want higher chances to contribute proper games and stuff." is a bit silly. Thats not a good thing for any legit user that wants to contribute out of pocket. If the standard for "basic contributor" is pushed up to $120 or something, then what is the incentive to start contributing? Assuming they are going for contributor value. You start edging out any potential out of pocket contributor, and devalue their contributions overall

Easy answer: Dota 2 should be classified the same as a bundle giveaway (given a * next to its name and treated the same in calculations) and The Ship should be decreased in value to $1, same as what happened for the Ironclads Collection. The Dota 2 contribution drop should date back to the point when the value on SG dropped from $50 to $10, and The Ship should be devalues starting at the same time as the promotional giveaway began that gave out the free copies. Shouldn't be too difficult to implement as both have been done before for different games. Let me know what you think.

No, i'm not saying they are worried about their own value. I said they are worried that their chance of winning doesn't improve by "X" percent because a lot of people get the same increase of value by just abusing the system with stuff they got for free.

I didn't simplify anything, i just replied to the OP's concern that "everyone" is a Contributor now.
Which really isn't a problem since the Ship already is counted as a Bundle Key and Dota 2 will lose it's worth once the game actually comes out.

The Ship should have been added to the "Exploited Key" list after the big Giveaway, but that has been mentioned many times before and didn't require another thread.

The contribution system is flawed, we know that. It's been discussed to death.
Less than a percent of all the Games that have been given away through this site, were actually bought at full price. But that is okay?
Sure at least someone paid something for it, but that really doesn't make it much better.

yes legit contributors cant keep up with abusers but they can get in the group with 50 members so they have better chases to win :) and abusers get only abuser giveaways that's it, contry system kinda failed because of ship and dota 2 tho without contry system it would be worse.

people arent even getting that much themselves, but lots of people have 1 extra copy

It used to sell for $50 games... but still it's a free game so it should be lowered to 0.01 value and 1 point entry.

People who "bought" the betas for that and CS:GO are stupid, i've seen people trade pretty good games and expensive ones for the betas, and in the end they just loose it, totally not worth it.

To be honest, I don't plan on ever using it. All my giveaways have been public and I don't see why I would make one contrib.

So yes, maybe it should be taken out. But the way I see it, it's working in tiers right now. The occasional $2k giveaway for the 10+ people that have it, and $100+ for people who give things away and deserve it more than leechers. I'm sure there's more in between, but anything under $100 is like, meh. I'm not saying contributions aren't appreciated or whatever, but really, what is one five dollar game to someone with hundreds of dollars. I don't think they intended for people to nitpick at the $5 here and there to determine whether or not someone was worthy.

Who said anything about getting banned?! Idiot.