You don't have to have a resoning for blacklisting people. Some just do it for no reason at all. It's also weird to purposefully wait with the activation and if you feel, that you don't want to deal with such people, it's your right to do so.

You can black- and whitelist whoever you want. You will receive blacklists for this thread.

To me it is very annoying as well, if users take their time to react after winning the game despite being active on Steam (not just idleing, but activating games and getting achievements) and SG (joining giveaways). Blacklist is one option, getting them to blacklist you is the other option. A third way might be to wait until they get permanently suspended for using an auto-join script (there are several users looking that way, at least to me).

In the end, don't worry about it & have a nice day!

You are free to blacklist whoever you want, whenever you want. I still have people that haven't activated wins in over a month, so don't get stressed about it.

You'll always receive some bl, even if you don't do anything, so just don't care about it. Still, they have the right to wait 7 days to mark received so it could be a little unfair to blacklist them. But you can, if you want, it's your right to bl whoever you want for whatever reason, even just because you don't like their nicknames, so :)

see someone purposely not activating their product within that time while active

u don't know this.

Anyway i think its a bad reason for blacklisting - i blacklist, for example, only forum spammers, shit-comments makers and leachers ¯ \\ (ツ) / ¯

But do you think that rule is OK?

your rule - is your rule 💮

The people that are each day very much online at sg and steam but don't activate wins after nearly a week are to 99% autojoiners, bots and such............."""people"""

i once had someone who took over a week to activate it (most likely 2). then moaned because i took down the key so someone else could have it

Many users log on only once a week or so, or activate games only during weekends (despite the very obvious online activator button added to the wins page).
Also, well, not like you can do anything for a week either, if they did not break any rules. Getting the gifts marked is a good thing and it is not uncommon to prod the winners a bit after 3-4 days, but otherwise, nobody is really in a hurry. :)

I mean... you can blacklist anyone for any reason you want, childish or not. Personally Id find it a bit childish to blacklist someone because they didnt activate as quickly as Id like, but its your list, so do what you want with it.

edit: Thought Id add, I really liked Jbondguys suggestion and grez1's suggestion of assuming ignorance before malice. I know I forgot to mark received once until they sent me a message on Steam on like day 5-6. Could just be an honest mistake on their part

If I can make a suggestion, simply change the rule to "if you can't activate the key within a few days of the giveaway ending, comment to tell me why". That way, if someone encounters some trouble during the week preventing them from activating the game (even when they are online), they get a chance to justify the wait and based on that (or based on their failure to reach out about it) you can make a proper decision whether or not you want to blacklist them or whatever it is you want to do.

And don't mind what people say about your blacklist rules - Your blacklist is yours to manage, and nobody can take that right away from you at this time.

So, you are allowed to blacklist or whitelist whomever you want, and I agree (as someone who does a lot of GAs) that late activators are super annoying. When I'm trying to ensure that a long list of games are all activated successfully, it's frustrating when people take that long.

But I will say that, personally speaking, I don't think that this is a good reason to consistently blacklist people unless you see repeated behavior. It's actually possible that the user can appear as active due to a tab being open in their browser, even if they're not really participating in SG. Now, admittedly, that's probably a minority of the people that you're seeing.

I usually reach out to anyone who hasn't activated their win by day 4 or 5, and politely remind them that they won one of my GAs, and haven't activated it. I also mention that I re-roll 100% of the time once day 7 hits. I've found that most people are apologetic and just forgot and take care of it right away. If I get radio silence, then I will consider blacklisting them at that point. If they get back to me later and let me know that they were on vacation or something, I will remove them from my blacklist, but of course if it has been a week, then their win will have already been re-rolled.

I try to keep a short blacklist. It's part of my personal philosophy of assuming ignorance before malice. I do so in the hopes that the same assumption is extended to me as well. I try to ensure that I have pretty good proof (even if circumstantial) of bad behavior before I blacklist someone.

So that's my take on it...hopefully, that helps you out. Cheers. :)

I don't actually care, but more than few days of laziness when people are clearly active and on Steam is rather bad. Specially now when only thing required is to log on Steam on browser and press redeem...

Still, blacklisting is free and easy! Too bad the list is so small...

Annoying? Yes, but I don't care enough to do anything about it.
I use the SG app on my phone, so if I'm away from home, I can be online here and if my home PC is on (it usually is) I'm also online on Steam, but do I log in to steam on my phone browser to redeem codes? Noup, can't even remember my password to Steam, so can't activate any codes.
Then again, I rarely am away more then half a day.
As others have noted above, you can still blacklist (and whitelist) people anyway you want.

You can blacklist anyone you want for whatever you want.
I wouldn't blacklist for that reason, though - I've waited up to a month for someone to activate a win.

It's totally ok because you can use your WL and BL in anyway you like. It's the same with how and when you make your giveaways or what and when you play on\use your own Steam account.

It's that simple. ;-)

To be honest, once it happened to me that I won a giveaway 1 hour after leaving for a 7 days summer vacation (I like to switch off during vacations - no phone, no computers, nothing digital). But I left a message on my Steam profile that I'll be back on a certain date. On the 7th and final day I activated the game (maybe the first minutes of the 8th day...) and apologised to the winner, and he said "it's okay, I saw the message" with a chuckle.

So I personally think that if you have undeniable proof that the person on the other side is a jackass - go ahead. But if you just "think so" and have no proof, then you are breaking the 7 day rule - which is a shame.

You can do whatever you want with your black and white lists. I don't see the rule as unfair. I blacklisted winners I had annoyances with, can't remember exact reasons though.

And damn, that's a lot of Take Thy Throne giveaways lol.

SIX DAYS!?!? THE HUMANITY!!!!

People have blacklisted for less. Personally I don't care for blacklists or whitelists (though I collect them), but to each his own.

As for the issue at hand, it's easy for people to browse the site on mobile, but not everyone knows how to activate a game online. This could be one reason you see people on the site but they don't mark giveaways as received.

i blacklist people when they didn't mark as received within 2 hours fo winning and when they don't play their wins after 4 hours, that's fair!

I think that's a justified reason for blacklisting, in particular if you see that they're online and active on steam and/or SG (now that you can activate games in browser, you've really not got an excuse for not activating games if you're active on SG).
To me though, there's a difference between life getting in the way, and you not being able to activate games and be active on Steam/SG and just not activating games while still being active here and on Steam. If someone is genuinely offline for a few days, I would not blacklist them, if they just don't seem to feel like activating the game, I would.

I think you are getting worked up over nothing--is your life held up if you must wait 6 days for acknowledgement? Not unless you are really waiting for that one GA to push you up a level on SG.

Recently, I marked SENT. My winner patiently waited 7 days to inform me that he had NOT received (probably did not want to be rude.) I overlooked clicking the Key Release button even though I was active.

I do know that some people think that most any Discussion post requires a GIB for the hassle of looking at what you want to say. I have BLed twice ever--I do not remember what for.

It is possible they only have a cellphone or are borrowing wifi on a vacation and don't have access to steam client and don't know how to activate from steam site or many other reasons also commented here. I'm pretty lenient and usually don't care until two weeks or a month later, but you can blacklist for any reason you want. In this case, it's annoyed you since you feel they've deliberately not receive it until very late and a justifiable situation for a possible blacklist imo though no rules have been broken. People have blacklisted for more petty reasons.

If you set giveaways to lvl1+, you'll probably get better mark as receive times due to less ... bots or not as active forum users.

Steamgifts allows to mark as received a game within 7 days, only if they pass that time I would care... but they are free to activated whenever they choose to, within those 7 days.

About blacklisting you for it, I dont think anyone needs a reason to blacklist someone, so if someone chooses to BL you for it, so be it.