It's been like 3-4 days and no aswers on two of my questions about rerolling a giveaway, is that normal? Thanks for your time

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yes, can take even a week, depends on how many tickets support have to answer beforehand.

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winners have SEVEN DAYS to activate their wins. All requests to reroll are ignored till then, unless there is a comment on the giveaway that the winner doesn't want the game, or you can provide an extenuating reason.

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Not true. You can request a reroll immediately if the winner has rule infractions, already owns the game, doesn't want the game, or owns majority of the bundle you are giving if you are giving a bundle.

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or you can provide an extenuating reason.

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It's also false that reroll requests are ignored even under the circumstance listed; Staff will respond to inform you of their inability to process the request under the current circumstances and detail how you should progress. As such, you should always get a response on any reroll request, as soon as staff can make time for it.

Of course, as helevorn noted below, less simple reroll criteria will likely see additional delays. Further, if staff is backlogged or a staff member has only a little time to spare, it's not unlikely that they'll consider prioritizing requests which are quicker to process.

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Indeed. If your given reason is not valid, they'll just state why it's not valid and then reject the request, instead of ignoring it. Rerolls are the most urgent category in the support system, so I doubt anyone's request is purposefully ignored unless it's much more complicated than it should be.

This post says it as if you need to provide an excuse for a reroll, while the valid reasons are already listed on the reroll request page and most of them are not even up to debate. Either it is valid, or it is not.

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well, i request a reroll immediately cause the winner has unactivated wins and forgot to state in the ga description that i have the right to delete so. But support still doesnt grant me the reroll

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If the winner was already punished for his not activated wins, support will not punish him twice. It's a little bit confusing because you can not see if a winner was already dealt a punishment for not activated wins. So better be safe than sorry and always report a user with unactivated wins. If support says the user was already dealt with in the past, just move on.

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You have a small misconception here, you do not have the right to delete your giveaway, even if you state it in your descriptions.
Only with winner's approval you can initiate a deletion request to support. ;)

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hmm i see. i still see alot of ga saying that keys might not work and join at your own discretion. so its up to the winner honor to agree the ga then

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The only times you may freely delete a giveaway is with the winner's permission, or if you would already qualify to reroll that giveaway. Staff may, at their discretion, also allow a deletion under certain circumstances, such as when mass revocations occur.

You may reroll if the user is suspended, if the winner has been suspended for non-activation/multi-wins within the past month, if the winner entered the giveaway through illegitimate means, if the winner cannot be contacted for 7 days from the point where you first sent the game (or friend request) to that specific winner, or if the winner owns content within a multi-item giveaway that exceeds what you are willing to allow.

There may also be a few off-the-beaten-path circumstances that aren't coming to mind at the moment.

The point here is, there are a very narrow set of circumstances under which you may reroll or delete giveaways. Support will never permit rerolls or deletions if they do not meet the established reasons for doing such, regardless of what you do or do not include in your giveaway descriptions.

If you want to exclude users from your giveaway based on your own judgment, it has to be done before their entry is put into that giveaway. SGTools.info entry filters or specialized groups are your best resources for supporting such exclusions. [SGT is the only reliable option of the two, but a well-moderated group will at least put the people unwilling to abide by reasonable requests into a very small minority.]

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hmm make sense. guess its my fault for not learning how to use sgtools

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my request for deleting GA is instant
just make a bunch of GA and 2 error lol

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that's automatic, when you are managing a still-open giveaway you can delete it through support without the need of a moderator or staff member =P

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I see you have 2 giveaways "awaiting feedback", and none of them have the winner say anything about rerolling, thus it is not a "simple" reroll and it has to be reviewed.

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yes - this is it. the reroll that one can ask after 7 days usually gets answered perfectly (and granted) after a few minutes, providing a screenshot and the proof you have contacted the winner who has never saw the key/activated the game..
of course this case is different, as you perfectly said, so it's normal to have to wait! it is indeed true that you can ask for rerolls even before 7 days for special reasons (winner already having the game, winner rejecting game etc.), but they should be inspected by staff members

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Thank you for the perfect answer! :)

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youre welcome!! good luck with your reports =))

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Patience!

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try telling time that, he can never keep still

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Reminds me of an unanswered user report ticket from over 3 weeks ago, oh well i'll close it then.

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User report tickets are typically more complicated and the queue takes longer to get through. If you have a legitimate report, please do not close it.

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Okay.

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Thank you for leaving it open. Our Support team has handled it. As per policy, there will not be no explanation given (such tickets do not allow it), but we still appreciate you calling our attention to the matter.

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Thank you.

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I have 11 open User reports from 1, 2, 3 weeks, 1 month, 2 months.
Since Pete deleted his account the tickets stacking up again :o(

I miss him, not only because of the support work but because of this too :o)

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I had ones from like 8 months even after they got new staff, those i just did close in the end.

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Think positive! At least people answer your discussion topic!

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Yeah :D

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Thanks everyone for the answers!

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Noone answers my unsuspend request ticket. It just stays open for months. Noone cares.

I won 2 games. I activated them. After some time, they got removed from steam store so I deleted them from my library. After a time, moderators thought I did not activate those games at all. I got 1 month ban because of that. No answer to my ticket.

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Sorry to hear that

5 years ago
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you broke the rules:)

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Restore those games. I know it's possible in the support section on Steam.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithGame

You must not delete your wins from your Steam library, if you win a game here on SG, you are obliged to have it in your library, otherwise you risk a suspension.
Since you already served your penalty, Support cannot help you any further, they don't delete your wins on your SG record just because you decided to delete them from your library.
If you want your account back to good standing you either have to restore those 2 games or you have to contact the giveaway creator and ask them to delete the gibs with your permission. (which is understandably a dirty solutíon and detrimental to the gib-creator's statistics)

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It happens, although giveaway requests seem to get responded to pretty quickly (in my experience)

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Closed 4 years ago by SkkkyLORD.