Reasons for Random and Sporadic Blacklistings?

why do you care? :D people do what people like, no need for a reason :D

blacklisted for this topic

just kidding

There are many reasons for blacklists as listed in the thread below. Creating this thread is likely to increase this number.

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/pxlgT/reasons-for-blacklist

Try to focus on the whitelist instead as its not worth the headache.

I've BL'd posters of Hentai-game GAs. It's easier than playing whack-a-mole with every Hentai game title.

And in doing so, I lose all their non-Hentai GAs, and I think that's a fair trade. I'm cutting my nose to spite my face.

I'm not criticizing those users, because I know it's my own hang-up. I'll seek my taste in that kind of thing when I decide to -- I just don't want to stumble across it while doing something else, and I consider gaming to be something else.

I've gotten 5 BLs in my three months here, but in my case I presume they have been from my forum postings.

I guess my advice is to try not to take it personally. Maybe your icon is the spitting image of someone they want to forget.

Yes

People do it for all kinds of reasons. I suspect I got blacklisted once for liking a game someone else might have hated (or it might have been a coincidence and the blacklist was for an older post where I probably said something they didn't like). Either way, it's just the culture here it seems, so it is what it is.

I personally only blacklist some of the winners of my giveaways for convenience. Some winners force me to chase them around after a win being stuck in limbo for too long, and in the end, they don't even say a word about having activated their win to let me know. I hate chasing people around, I don't like adding random people to Steam friends, and I sure don't like sending emails to people I don't know. So I basically save myself the headache and eliminate troublesome winners.

I get blacklisted all the time for having a cute cat. People are just jealous

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Don't know about your case but I suspect that the reason why I get randomly blacklisted every now and then is a combination of having an ever worsening ratio and the occasional unpopular comment. I can't help myself when it comes to saying stupid things sometimes, I'm thankful that really idiotic shit I said in my adolescence was irl so it's not recorded anywhere to be dug up in the future, I've seen what happens to the people that act dumb online so I'm glad I was just a lurker that never commented anywhere back then.

I got blacklisted for making a pun, but maybe some people whitelist for puns so it evens out? Or it was a terrible pun that deserved blacklist

I've received very few blacklists so far (I'll probably acquire some just for saying that :P) Most blacklists I've received have been after posting things in discussions. Sometimes people just don't like reading certain things and feel like they have to do something to make themselves feel better :P

I've handed out a lot more blacklists though, but almost all are related to giveaways; mostly for not saying thanks after receiving a won game. A little common courtesy goes a long way.

I wouldn't be surprised if you got put on people's blacklists just for asking this question.

People do it because they can is how I perceive it. It doesn't bother me at all.

Some people blacklist anyone who's won one of their giveaways.

I also think some people share a blacklist list, and others just automatically add everyone on it, to their own. That may answer the sporadic nature of your blacklistings.

Rule #1 about Fight Club Blacklists: You don't talk about Blacklists
(virtually anything, even saying thank you, can get you BL'd)

I tend to see blacklisting as positive. At least people acknowledge your presence and care enough to react. As blacklisting prevents them to enter your giveaways too it's a convenient instrument to get rid of a crowd you wouldn't have wanted to win one of your giveaways anyway.

Well, this was a very fruitful endeavor. We laughed. We cried. We learned.

I also received +8 blacklistings, and +10 whitelistings, so in the end, it's a wash fellow gifters. Man is good, kind of.

Until we meet again, carry on wayward sons...