Make a public giveaway. Any sane contributor avoids those like the plague.

1) make a private giveaway and put your rule(s) in the description. "only for non-contributors"-rules have been approved before, so you do not have to check it with the (currently non-existent) mods.

2) post the link in the forums and state the rule(s) in your forum post, too

have a nice day =)

edit: If you want this to be added to the features, you have to post it in the Support forum. Nothing will come of it if you post it here.

It's not a bad idea, but ultimately what you're asking for is a public giveaway lol. It's already been mentioned, but you should just create a public giveaway and put rules in the description for who is eligable to enter :)

Four hundred thousand dollars

Most of non contributor users aren't poor. They're just greedy.

Wait.. so.. you want to exclude the community that is providing the majority of the giveaways, from entering giveaways?

.. brain frazzle ..

In my opinion, a bit better measurement of being poor or not would be the amount of games one has in Steam library. People with few games might enjoy and "need" those gifts more.

Even though I'm still against the contributor system in general, I think it'd be cool to have at least this alternative. All the contributor giveaways do is shorten the process of giving something ot our contributors (i.e. not doing a private giveaway where you check on every entrant), so I don't see any reason why this should not be shortened in the same way too.

You really think they want to add a feature that encourages people to not give a lot? lol

You could make a group giveaway with special rules (with mod approval of course), and set a maximum contributor value. If someone wins but doesn't qualify, you simply ask for a reroll

Your first mistake is assuming that the people with little or no contributions are poor. Yes, some certainly are but the majority of them are almost certainly simply leechers. This has been proven many times in giveaway groups and it also applies in general giveaways as well.

Secondly, having given aways hundreds (or even thousands) doesn't make one wealthy. For instance, I am unemployed but, in the course of 8 months, I've been able to create a very high contributor value. This is because when I buy games on Steam (or anywhere), I almost always get them when they are heavily discounted, not because I am wealthy or part of a wealthy family.

Every individual on this website could choose to do the same: buy games featured in the daily deal, through the numerous Steam promos throughout the year (Winter promo, Summer promo, the unexpected promos like the one that took place a few days ago), or through other websites that heavily discount Steam-redeemable games, and create giveaways whenever they are able to and consequently end up with a high contributor value after several months have passed. However, they choose not to because they aren't here to contribute, they are here to get free stuff. Not only that but they have a very entitled/privileged mentality and easily get angry when they see mistakenly-created giveaways (even though they, themselves, may have never created a single giveaway...).

That said, I support the idea of helping poor people win games but not through a "maximum contributor value". Instead, a giveaway group should be formed for people that fall into this group. Individuals from third-world countries could be invited, for example. The admins (along with more wealthy members of the group) could create giveaways for them (but not be allowed to enter them so that only poorer members would win). It would be basically like the groups for people who have never won games except this one's theme would be "poverty-stricken" gamers. (In citation marks because anyone who owns a computer is unlikely to be poverty-stricken. Maybe poor, but not exactly poverty-stricken.)

Lol you want to keep people out who give the most to the site?

cool idea

Well, thanks for the laugh, obviously a joke.. no one could actually think this is a good idea.. right?

That's a very good idea! With this awesome new feature no one would create giveaways anymore, so they have better chances on winning. And then the contributors finally get their punishment for giving away games. I hate those contributors, only because of them we can win free games. They should better sell them to us, that would be awesome.

Wait, you want to exclude people who've contributed more than a certain amount? Sounds interesting, but I vote nay.

I should have contributed less ):

just no

I CONTRIBUTED TOO MUCH! I'M SO SORRY THAT I'M BETTER THAN MOST OF YOU GUYS, SO I WON'T BE ABLE ENTER THIS GIVEAWAY!

No

Okay, i see only one person got the idea behind this... Sad so few people can see behind the obvious.

Lemme explain bit more, maybe some more people will get what i want to say then.

Let´s take user X, he contributed about 100$ of games each month. So obviously he has enough money to be able to buy games he wants. Why should i gift something to this person? He has money, no need to gift him! And no, i am not saying gifters are bad persons, of course they aren´t!

Now let´s take user Y, he contributed a total of 240$ but over a period of, let´s say 2 years. That´s just 10$/month. So he isn´t really a rich person, just a nice one. Imho he still "deserves" to win things.

With this system (or rather addition), the aim of gifting without thoughts behind it, would get pushed again. Like it is right now, it´s a lot about "i need amount x to be able to enter better giveaways and then i won´t give away anything no more!".

Sure, maybe - or probably! - the total amount of giveaways will decrease but the spirit of giving away would get pushed again and people "in need" would have better chances. Sure, there will still be thousands of leechers out there but there will always be, unless you add a huge amount of mods watching things.

Hope this is clearer now.

Right, and for all you know, the person with less contributions could be just as rich as the other person, and they do buy the games for themselves, instead of actually giving away as much...

I have seen this mentioned a few times before, maybe you should contact support, as I believe suggestions are to be 'suggested' using a support ticket.

I think a more preferable type of request would be a "Maximum Gifts Won" setup. If you're after giving newcomers or unlucky people a chance at winning, setting how many times they have won before would definitely reach them. People who contribute a ton of money into this site have won at least a few games. If you could say "Max Gifts Won: 3" for example, anyone who has won 3 or less games could enter. If you were really aiming to hit new/unlucky people, setting it to 0 would be the goal. That's just my thought on a better approach.

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+1 on the idea, completely agree with OP