Unspoken Rules/Tips of Steam Gifts

trying to make a list for new users here. feel free to add below and i will add to the list. looking for things that are not in the rules/guidelines

1. DO NOT bring up/use the text steamgifts, won, or giveaway on steam! this can trigger a full community ban.

2. https://www.sgtools.info/activation can be used to check your winner to see if they have followed the rules. its not always right, but it has been 99% of the time for me.

3. Make Your Own Search Parameters https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/1kgzB/new-search-parameters

4. every single giveaway is made up of 5 random characters followed by /name of game example https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/12345/name of game. people use the 5 characters to hide giveaways for puzzles. you only those 5 characters and the / put at the end of https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/ to access them. they can only be numbers and English letters both upper case and lowercase

5. if you hover your mouse over Gifts Won/Gifts Sent on a players steamgifts profile you can see the number of Received, Full Value, Reduced Value, No Value, Not Received games

6. if you hover your mouse over the Gifts Won $$$/Gifts Sent $$$ you can see a ruff guess of the Real contributor value/received value. this takes into account if games have been free, in bundles, on deep% sales. its not super accurate, but its far more on the money than the other numbers.

7. if you blacklist someone before a giveaway ends, it does not remove them from the giveaway. they can still win it

8. people can and will blacklist you for any reason

9. asking why you were blacklisted, is gonna get you blacklisted more

9.4 if you run into a community event train cart and the creator has blacklisted you or you them, open the link in a private browser. it will now display everything allowing you to see the link for the next cart.

10. trying to contact winners https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/8lAqd/changes-for-unresponsive-winners

11. say thanks after you win a giveaway

12. saying thanks on every giveaway makes you looks like a bot and sends a notification to the creator every single time you do it

13. Thanks for skyrim/badrats. when solving a puzzle both running jokes

14. if you delete a giveaway you will lose 1 giveaway slot.

15. you more successful giveaways you do, the more you can have running at any one time

16. if you want more giveaway slots you can contact a mod. some game devs have to ask for more to giveaway 500+ of a new game they made. im not sure how you do this

17. you will almost always lose contributor value overtime as game values are adjusted. this is usually because they weren't at the proper value when you game them away.

18. DLC's/Bundles will let you join them even if you fully own them.

19. Tiny eye icon with the line through after the name of the game that will blacklist the game/dlc so none of the giveaways for it will show up

20. If The Pricing Is More Than 15% On Steam You Likely Can't Gift Them