[STORY] My First A Gift Copy Giveaway Turns to Steam Community Ban (temporarily)

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I'm confused.
How did you get a community ban on Steam?

i didn't understand a thing. why did you get a community ban?

Unfortunately the changes in the past few years has made it very difficult to gift games directly from Steam. Most people here now buy keys to gift from sites like Humble, Fanatical, GMG, or other official stores. There can still be some region restrictions on the keys, but it is not like Steam where every game is locked so you can't send anything to a region where it costs 10% more than your region (I believe it is 10%, but not positive).

I'm not sure why you would get a Steam ban. Maybe someone you sent the message to thought you were a scammer and reported you to Steam. It is not uncommon for scammers to add random people and send them messages with links that lead you to a site that hijacks your Steam account, so I guess Steam support could have looked into it and saw you sending messages to a bunch of people with a link and thought you were a scammer. Maybe you could contact Steam and explain what happened to try and get the community ban removed, but I don't know how that works since I have never been in that situation. I also don't know what Steam thinks about people using steamgifts.

just set your gift area/region to SEA as I often did that before, never have any winner here from SEA that waits 3 days, let alone 7 days 🤣
I don't do that anymore these days cause it's make me difficult to join lots of communities/groups here, people tend not to like who give gifts to a specific region.
friend request sent just in case I win sth from you later 😂

I recently went through the following:
I was reading reviews on a game, trying to decide whether adding to wishlist or not, IIRC. I saw one of the most popular reviews, several years old, linking to a patch. Then I went to discussions, which is often informative just reading the kind of problems people list in the title. I saw one person asking about said patch. I answered, and pasted the link from the review.

Then about 1 minute later I was community banned. I received an email saying it was about the link looking as a scam site. The site was 100% legit with thousands of users and patches, btw.

I immediately sent a message to support. I throughoutly explained that the link came from a review listed in the game's store page. After some hours (next day early) I received an email saying my ban was listed and I should be more careful about what links I post. In other words, "we didn't read your message, this is boilerplate text".

But I already have a community ban in my history for posting a link that has been on Steam for years. Yeah baby, Steam support is probably the best feature they have. You can truly trust them. First ban then ignore, finally check and put the fault on the user.