I can understand the reasoning for restricting if you have won one before.
It helps to spread out the wealth. I know it is about equal footing for the raffles here.
However when you have a person with 23 wins and constantly winning by sure chance, it would be nice to see someone else win.
This way it helps others get games they would like to play also. Not just one Gabe Newell-esk winner swimming in games.
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yes it can suck, but it is also based off the kindness of the person doing a giveaway in the first place and they should have the right to say, I am giving this away for free, i want to make sure it is to someone that has not won something yet.
you can not really allow people to cry because they wanna be greedy with these free raffles they are entering have a restriction.
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Sure, the giver should have that option, but it shouldn't be a site-wide feature added to all giveaways. Plus, atm, there are groups that give to people who haven't won yet, so people should try to get in those if they want smaller odds in giveaways.
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I understand thiscorpekata, and skzorak, I wasn't suggesting it to be site wide and mandatory. I was saying the option should be there for the creator.
If I were to start a giveaway I would love this option merely because even if it was private raffles I as the person paying money to give someone else a game should be able to say I do not want to give it to someone who has already won a lot. Private or Public.
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So your solution is,instead of an intuitive radio button selection to use it or not having a drop down menu with a number selection for previous win limit added to the creation process that you can very easily not use or activate is to instead, go create a steam group, invite people to group, gain some members, and then host a private raffle for them, then have to inspect every profile to make sure they haven't won yet.
Yes this is a brilliant solution as opposed to actually having an option for it.
Some things like this shouldn't fall completely on the community's hands to have to handle. We do enough by spending the money to give out games.
Honestly it is for this very reason I have not given anything away yet,is because I don't want someone who lerks the boards for private raffles to enter and add another notch to his collection when there are people who are legitimately trying to win their first.
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Until, and if, that happens, that is my solution, yes.
This is a community driven site, and is supposed to be more about community than it is some anonymous raffle machine anyways. That's why I like that there are all these groups popping up, and why I like to participate in them.
Maybe a poll could be set up on the site to ask questions like this, but for now, work with what we've got.
Also, as to not gifting anything yet.. You don't have to gift anything, but if you wanted to, there are options out there. You say you don't want forum lurkers joining a private? Don't give it out on the forum. Or don't make a private, make it a group one, etc.
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To take it a step further - Those who create giveaways should be able to set multiple parameters to those allowed to enter - Open to everyone, or the ability to set it so only people with under a certain amount won can enter, only people with a positive entries/comments ratio can enter, only people who have been with the site a certain amount of time can enter. And the ability to combine those - Example. Say I wanted to give a gift to a very unlucky person who has been at least saying thank you to the gifters - "Open only to members with 0 wins who have a positive entry-to-comment ratio and have been a member for at least 1 month.", or "Open only to members who have not won a gift within their last 300 entries."
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A restriction for how many giveaways you have won
Like some giveaway will not be allowed to enter if you have X wins
Or you have to win at least X giveaways to enter
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