We have nearly 90,000 uncategorized discussions, and fewer than 90,000 support users, so we're looking for a little help. The below page pulls a random discussion that's uncategorized, and a list of available categories. By clicking on a category, you're voting to move that discussion to the category you selected. After you vote, another random discussion will appear to repeat the process. Once we have a large enough sample size, we'll move the uncategorized discussions to the categories where they received the highest number of votes. Thanks for helping us out!

If you have any questions about categories, or if you feel we're missing a category that might be useful, let us know.

http://www.steamgifts.com/tools/categorize-discussions

Edit: To clarify a bit, the General category should be used for SteamGifts and Steam related discussions (How do I get points?, Fortix Giveaway, Should I Buy Portal?, Is Steam Down?, etc) and Off-Topic for everything unrelated.

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Ooo, you made it into a minigame. Nice!

9 years ago
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Where are the achievements?

Also, pls add cards!! :v

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9 years ago
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instead of working? :D

8 years ago
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of course :D

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9 years ago
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I'm on it boss!

9 years ago
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Ready to help!

9 years ago
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Should I go back and give a category to my old CLOSED discussions?
I mean, is that useful? Or is this just for stuff that's still open?

9 years ago
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Yes, it'll help, and avoid others having to vote on your discussions.

9 years ago
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Well, I think that was all of them. Done.
Sorry for not making it earlier, I haven't realised that it was necessary.

9 years ago
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YEEESS!!! 10 points and counting! :P

9 years ago
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Popped up one of my topics, I went and changed it myself. :P

9 years ago
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You should set a category to all of your threads?
I just got one of yours. Having dozens of ppl trying to categorize it VS you in a few seconds... Oh well.

9 years ago
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I have several hundred threads. That sounds a lot like work.

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9 years ago
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Why not?

9 years ago
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80% of all threads are off-topic anyways, so it's not too hard of a task.

9 years ago
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We need a trashcan category to put all those "My CV won't go past 30" threads. :P

9 years ago
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9 years ago
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Very nice idea. Better than trying to get people to do this themselves. (We still got about 1000 of them categorized correctly when the new site launched)

9 years ago
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+1

9 years ago
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Went through a few, some make the brain hurt. Any chance of adding a spam/begging/trading or just plain against the rules option?

9 years ago
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+1

9 years ago
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These discussions should no need such categories.
They should get deleted.
I don't get what is the point of keeping some of these threads.

9 years ago
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The only reason to give them a category would be so that cg(support if any have the power) can find them and destroy them if he so wishes.

9 years ago
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What category should private giveaways without puzzles be added to?
Including key drops, cards giveaways, coupons giveaways, and all of that.
They're certainly not puzzles.

9 years ago
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General, I'd say.

9 years ago
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This is a great tool, I'll try to help in my spare time.

9 years ago
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happy cake day

9 years ago
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Happy Birthday :)

9 years ago
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Happy Cake Day!!

9 years ago
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Happy cake day!

9 years ago
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Great idea, especially since there's so many bored people with idle energy to burn here.
May be they will spend more of it on this rather than making uncategorized discussions.

9 years ago
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Sure, I have nothing to do right now lol

9 years ago
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I got a trade thread... is there an option to vote for it to be trashed?

9 years ago
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Would probably help if the people that post up bundle releases would go ahead and categorize them as deals themselves. Just got a bunch of those in a row, so I'm off to do something else.

9 years ago
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Many times people ask help for something so it would be nice to have a "Help" Category.

9 years ago
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+1

9 years ago
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I agree :)

9 years ago
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We considered this earlier, but the debate was whether or not people would start posting support questions there, asking for giveaways to be deleted, new winners, reporting users, etc. If that happened, the category would just be filled with comments referring users to the FAQ, or support. That's why we decided against it, so if you see any questions about the site, you can move them to the General category.

9 years ago
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You could always put some sort of topic description on it at the top for each section, specifically saying what each section is for. Have it between the spot where it says

Discussions > Announcements
and (Put description here at the top, in bold)
Summary Comments Last Post

For the help section it could say....

"Help section. A place for the users to help each other with issues they might have. Any posts that should be reported to support will be automatically closed (or ignored) with no reply from support. This includes but is not limited to requests for giveaway deletions, requests for more giveaway slots, reroll requests, reporting users and so on."

At the very least you could try it for a month or 2. If you do actually get far more actual support type questions in there, then they could all just be moved to general or off topic and the help section removed. A little annoying but who knows, the user base might surprise you.... or just prove you right, in which case you can say "we tried that, it didn't work". :)

9 years ago
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+1

It would really reduce the clutter in the forum if there was a "Help Me!" or "Community Assistance" category. You could probably avoid Support questions if you just gave it the right name. "Peer Counseling" is a bit too tongue-in-cheek.... P

How about "Ask the Community" or "Community Assistance?"

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I feel your version of the suggestion makes more sense.

I also feel a section such as "Giveaways" (or something like that) for those made without a puzzle might help clutter the general section a bit less, but maybe that's just me. :)

9 years ago
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I suggested that a while back, but thought against it cause it would just descend into people calling out and just asking the same stuff that's in the FAQ all the time.

However now I am edging towards it again. Frankly if they can figure out how to sign up for a giveaway they can damn well take time to read some simple rules. If not? Then it'll probably descend into a massive trap for users to be suspended.

9 years ago
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As Khalaq said it requires a proper naming not just "Help". Also, people already ask about rerolls and support related stuff on the forums, yeah it might increase the number but with the proper set up it might not.
For example when creating the thread it could have a tooltip saying that the "Help" category doesnt replaces Support Tickets. that means that if you want rerolls/reports/etc you have to make a Support ticket. or something like that.
And I think its about time to make newcommers to finally read the FAQ. I mean, FORCE them to read the FAQ. I dont know, maybe the FAQ quiz that some people suggested is a good idea after all.

9 years ago
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we get to work :D

9 years ago
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Don't forget a Llama Category.

You know, for the llamas.

9 years ago
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I don't why that wasn't closed long ago.

9 years ago
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And an Alpaca category. Don't forget about your cousins.

7 years ago
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Nicely done :)

9 years ago
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Awesome. Having a day where I feel like doing nothing so this will keep me occupied with mindless work...

EDIT: Not sure where user giveaway threads belong... like threads where people are hosting their birthday GAs or are dropping keys, etc...

9 years ago*
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General, for sure! :)

9 years ago
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Thanks, I've been voting to put them there but wasn't 100% sure :P

9 years ago
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Very nice idea ^^
What's the difference between General and Off-Topic?

9 years ago
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We just renamed the "General Gaming" to "General", which I feel covers gaming and things to do with this site.

9 years ago
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Good, I've been putting anything gaming related to general.

9 years ago
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great change yeah

9 years ago
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I was just about to post 'General' sounds like 'Off-Topic' to me, when I saw this.

I find 'General Gaming' or maybe 'Gaming Related' more comprehensible. ...and an additional 'SG Related' eventually.

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some threads come up again and again after sorting out 60 threads
(3 threads kept coming up to be exact)

9 years ago
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That should be fixed now, and you should only see discussions you haven't previously voted on.

9 years ago
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Whoopsie daisy, I should not be clicking buttons. I will go back to watching my movie.
Never mind those three I did, it was an accident. Sorry.

9 years ago
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This will not do you lose part of your heresy?

9 years ago
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What about Hennessy? Don't mind if I do.

9 years ago
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Just kidding
you apologized and I was surprised. His comments are often more harsh

9 years ago
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Closed 5 years ago by cg.