Hey there.

In my Stats, i can see, that i am on 7 Blacklists, but why? Im never nasty to another people and my trades are always perfect. Also i created many giveaways and everyone got the promised game. When i won, i always marked that as "received".

I dont understand why someone should put me on a blacklist. Any ideas?

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Some people blacklist just to prevent repetitive winners. And being polite doesn't mean there won't be a difference of opinion, so a petty person would still blacklist for that.

Its really best to just not bother worrying about it.

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If someone blacklists you does it go both ways ?

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No. They can still enter your GA's.

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That's stupid since you will never know who actually blacklisted you.

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Yeah, the "I hate you so much you'll never win my games, but i still want your games" rule is kinda stupid, but it's hard to figure out how to make it in such a way to not create more drama.

Maybe some sort of "hidden counter-blacklist", so when person A blacklists person B, in same time person A writes themselves into person B's counter-blacklist and only way to get out from it is unblacklisting person B and waiting one month (so they won't be able to join person B's already running giveaways anyway).

7 years ago
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Have you ever expressed any kind of opinion in a discussion? Then you probably offended somebody and got blacklisted.

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lol

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Yep, I'm up to 40 blacklists from closed minded people. But I've also discovered those said people are constantly on ego trips.

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+1

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Funny thing is, most times I got blacklisted was when I wasn't even on the site for several days xD
I think some people use random blacklist bots. Because bots for everything, right?

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No, im not the typical forum writer.
No expressions, no opinions.
Thats why im asking you, if you have any ideas about my blacklists.
But as i can see, all people are on some blacklists. Really strange ...

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Not really strange at all. If you're even slightly active on this site (and you have sent quite a few gifts and also won a couple) you'll get blacklisted. Don't worry about it. There is a good chance you'll never even meet those people again.

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People blacklist for the randomest of reasons, you could be a literal saint and still found yourself in some blacklists, don't worry too much and try to enjoy the rest of your SG experience :)

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I hate to break it to you, but you are holding an opinion now - that you have been treated unfairly (thus, the blacklist)

Chill Winston.

Ain't worth cryin' about.

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+1

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People can and will blacklist for anything. And unfortunately, youre probably going to land on some blacklists for adding to the "why am I blacklisted" pile of threads.

edit: Reread it and I dont mean to sound nearly as snarky as I sounded (its been a rough day). Youve actually been on my whitelist for awhile. Its probably best to not really pay it much attention. People blacklist for just about anything. Some blacklist their winners to give other people a chance, some dont like if you do too many group giveaways, some dont like region locked giveaways, Ive been blacklisted by someone after I had them rerolled for rule breaks, some blacklist over opinions on the forums. Until you start heading towards the Konrads record of blacklists, I wouldnt worry about it :)

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tl;dr blacklisted you instead loljk

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Pretty much this.

Also: you have a terrible ratio! A lot more games sent then won? HERETIC! Whitelisted.

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I wouldn't take it personally. Someone could blacklist you for many reason and not necessarily for negative reasons. Maybe someone black listed you because you won one of their giveaways and didn't want you to win another that they gave away. Who knows. Best to just not look or dwell on the blacklist and appreciate the whitelists :)

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This, I wish more people used whitelists instead of blacklists. It would certainly improve morale around here.

If you don't want certain people to enter your giveaways, just whitelist the giveaway.

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If it makes you feel better, I wishlist the users that win my giveaways (if they GA somewhat regularly) and the use that gives away a game I win. I'm sure there are others out there like this as well.

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Considering your low number of wins, you probably caught a few from discussions or even from your own giveaways if you've ever put "unfair" restrictions on them.

Embrace your blacklisting. So long as you know you aren't a tool it doesn't matter.

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Seven may as well be zero. That's a fraction of a percent of the users here. Don't worry about it.

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How the hell did you end up on 139 Blacklists?

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Yeah looks like you've definitely entered a fair number of giveaways I'd have never entered. Doesn't seem blacklist worthy to me though.

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That's not bad ratio.
Not when there are people with 0:50+ ratio.

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it's not that hard. the more acive you are the bigger chance someone whose BL criteroia you fit notices you and BLs you ;) and 139 is not a lot - I myself am on over 300 BLs (not tghat I care as they come with over 700 WLs as well ;p)

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Maybe, you shouldn't blacklist that many people then? :) (Hint)

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Damm if only you had 138 then it would match the number of wins.

I hate nearly even but not quite numbers :P

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you have to win even more games now to make it even :(

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rip

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Don't worry. I'm on 101 xD

7 years ago
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Maybe some people hate Rammstein or metal in general and blacklist you because of your avatar, it can be for anything.
Don't pay attention.

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For fun, peace and laughter.... well just ignore about it, maybe due to some comments where people have different opinion from you and such.

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That all? I'm on 180. I blacklist a lot more though, and so a good number are bound to be simply blacklists in return, which I don't mind (I try to avoid entering giveaways of blacklisted users, but the addon I use to see them doesn't always load the icons right away).

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Pff 180 is kid's games. 215 here.

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215? meh. 302! ;p

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But thats in 4 years :D i got 215 in just one!

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not in 4 years, you gotta take into consideration that implemented BL functionality was not present in original version of the website and got introduced only with SGv2.

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Still. I think i win on yearly basis :D

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If you have Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey check out this script on SteamGifts
It lets you put labels besides usernames so you know why they're blacklisted. The icons also show up all the time.

Also, how the hell did you end up on 180 blacklists?

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I already use an addon for BL / WL icons and user tags, but sometimes when I load a topic, the icons don't appear right away since the browser puts it off while the page is still 'loading'.

I keep hitting 1000 people on my own blacklist, and often request those people blacklist me so I don't enter any of their gives, while some are simply pissed that their actions have consequences and so block me from entering all the giveaways they never make. >:D

7 years ago
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As I remember you blacklist only rulebreaker, am I right?

7 years ago
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That is correct. Can range from unactivated / repeated wins to a ref link or attempt to beg. Results in a full list, unfortunately.

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What's about persons who broke rules accidentally 'cause of lack of knowing site's rules. Yeup, people usually don't read FAQ. And after understanding rules they just fixed their fault and stoped being rulebreakers. So, what's about them?

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They stay on my list. It isn't impossible to get off, but the people that are removed are either gone from the site for at least 6 months (and so clearly won't return) or are part of a private group that doesn't allow the blacklists.

Even more rare is when I've removed at their request of another chance (3 so far), but they will have to be really deserving of it (typically the super generous and highly active sods). 460 wins to 40 gifts, not quite.

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Well, when I was kinda stupid newb I won GA, but creator accidentally gave me wrong key. I thought that was OK replacement and didn't ask right one. That's why I got suspended for a week and become rulebreaker for few months. After someone explained me that I was wrong I bought right game and now I'm clean. Kinda :D
But thanks for explaining your point.

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I'm curious, what does the site say if you try to add more people to your blacklist? Does it throw an error message or smth?

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It just fails to add to the blacklist.

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Just create one "SG sucks" thread and you got +300 blacklists ^^

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Uh, I didn't even knew you can check that, I'm on 65

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Cough check again Cough xD

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70 now, how did you knew?

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I'm on your list so I was jokin' about you not being on 65 as I've added another one (I didn't really tho :D).

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I actually was on 65 just yesterday

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Blacklisting is like food or oxygen for some people here. You should not care about it

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You exist and so do others. Therefore, someone in this universe hates/dislikes you for no reason at all.

The sooner you learn this the better. Not everything has a logical reason in life, especially humans.

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I have 30 and I only won 1 game so I guess it's normal :)

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This thread inspired me to clean out my blacklist, removed the user who were permanently suspended, alone reduced the list by half. although i couldn't bring myself to remove konrads from my blacklist...

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I know that feeling. He is one of two peeps who happen to be on my blacklist. Just can't let the memory fade D:.

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I'm as bad as konrads :(

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You are not on my blacklist boyo. At least not atm, but you can join if you like :P.

I used to blacklist due to poor ratios back in the day, but stopped when I can no longer be assed to maintain a clean list. I purged everyone but Konrad since then, and have recently another for reasons I won't go into. Other than that, I don't use the function anymore, but I understand the appeal of it.

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oh so my mother was right i'm not special :(

7 years ago
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pat pat

One day you will find a space lobster who will love you for just the way you are. You will fall in love and grow old together, while building a family and life as a single entity. I just happen to not be the lucky one /shrug.

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I feel ya, but back on topic blacklisting people who won one of your giveaways seems a fair use i suppose.

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There, there. Here, have a VirtualCookie™, it will cheer you up! ♥

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I was on your list. Twice :D

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There are plenty of reasons while people blacklist, not all of them good either. You can be end up blacklisted for

  • Bad ratio, doesn't even have to be bad, some people just go nazi over it unless it is 1 to 1 in some cases others are more tempered with it.
  • Some treat asking about Blacklist like Fight Club rules where talking about it gets you added to it.
  • Some do it to keep you from winning from them more than once
  • Some do it because they disagree with you, some actually because of an argument, some just because you have an opinion they dislike.
  • Some do it because you didn't say "Thank you" on your giveaway from them. Yes, some actually care about that while most never check.
  • Some are just dicks and just don't care.

Don't worry about it, just blacklist them in return and move on and don't take it seriously. I personally have found myself on 109 blacklists so far. I don't use addons to find them either, I actually have turned it into a game where I get bored and start looking through the forums and checking profiles till I find someone new who has me blacklisted and make sure to blacklist them in return out of fair play and so I don't come across them twice.

And being on a blacklist doesn't mean they have issues with you either many times. I am on DeltaBladeX and he is on mine, we are both 100% cool with it either way. Trust me, there are thousands upon thousands of users on here and just saying Hello to the wrong person on the forums can land you on a blacklist at times with how fickle some people are when they have no consequences.

Just ignore it and move on, it isn't a huge deal at all, about the only blacklist I would hate would be from the guy who does the puzzle giveaways whose name escapes me at the moment.

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Probably not ratio in OP's case tho.... that's fantastic! xD

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You forgot my favourite: creating too many giveaways at once.

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Wow! I had missed that thread. Some people will complain about just anything.

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That's all? Congrats.

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I know what you mean, on many occasions I've won a game, I try to thank the giveaway creator only to be told that I don't have access to the page any more as they have blacklisted me :(

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Jesus was nice but he ended up on a lot of blacklists. You should feel lucky that your have only a few blacklists. :))))

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LoL. Can't tell if you're serious or just trolling.

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Well...as long as there is no mentioning of that in the website FAQ i can freely do it. Most of all, it was intended as a reference, not as a discussion. I wonder where you were when I was breaking my fingers on the keyboard and making tickets to support about the political/religion topics and when the gay pride topics were blooming on SG ... ?

And yeah...you are right about the gaming community. I share your statement.

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just 7?

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i got a few for asking questions. thats life. people don't want that extra possible entry on their highly exclusive clickteam fusion ga's.

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people don't want that extra possible entry on their highly exclusive clickteam fusion ga

NIce one :D

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I've got 29 people blacklisting me XD no clue why, but it's a whatever.

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29 is a good number:

29 blacklist reasons

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do you get an achievement for managing to get a blacklist for all these reasons?

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I think you should get an achievement for each ;-)

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that would be awesome
and then one, when you got the set

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Im on 116. Git gud.

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Hahaha!

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