Poll: What Is Your Definition of "Ratio"?

Neither of the two. The only ratio I care about nowadays is how many wins actually get played And to be honest, I really regret using kelnage's script to check that at this point

I'm voting Real CV Sent : Real CV Won.
Giving away massive amounts of Bundle Trash (10 copies of Spikit, Pepe Porcupine, Hidden Dragon, etc)
& winning really good stuff in return is not acceptable to me.

Ratio and CV are both overrated IMO. Gifting is the only thing that matter for me.

In mathematics, a ratio is a relationship between two numbers indicating how many times the first number contains the second.

I suppose the real CV is more important than the amount, but to me it just matters if the people actually play their wins.

I stopped caring about ratio ages ago.
Ratio isn't important to me. Good people are.

I've stopped caring about the trivial things a long time ago. Now I only care about love and chocolate and love for chocolate.

It is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, music or similar. Also ithe correct spelling would be 'Radio'

Glad I could help. ^.^

I have seen it used either way. Usually the giveaway creator specifies which ratio they are using, but I always see it as sent:won. For example, if you send $15 worth of games and win $20, your CV ratio is 0.75
Likewise, if you send 40 individual games and win 100, your number of wins ratio is 0.4

TL;DR It's all up to the creator, but they should specify.

I mean its usually not something i care about as long as i dont see one of the classic 1 went to 1/200 won profiles ... then i just blacklist them .

As for the SG Tools Sent x Won Ratio as far as Real CV goes , i just find the concept retarded ... Just cause i was lucky and won a bunch of stuff that its expensive , while giving away 10 -20 times the number but in bundled games ... cause thats what i can afford and then not meeting a lets say 1:1 ratio requirement with a profile that won 10 games and sent 200 ( not me ) , but some guy who sent 150 copies of Spriter pro and all that CV farm garbage stuff , and won 400 games can its kinda stupid ...

But you know thats just me ... and even i used that option in the past ... until i found out how not working it is :) imo

I prefer the "generousity ratio" - given/won, this is what I think about when someone says ratio
But when it comes to giveaway:
someone who doesn't/can't give back while plays it>>> a collector with even 5-10 ratio who doesn't play sh*t from their wins.

couldn't care less about ratio personally. but i want to say i've seen them both be used about evenly regarding sgtools as well as discussions.

Main reason why people don't like me here.

If the point is to check contribution, then Real CV ratio is more representative than the ratio of number of giveaways. I think different people usually think about one of these two ratios. Which one depends mostly on how much they know about how the site works. The more they know they probably think about Real CV ratio, which is a bit more useful.

Personally I find other ratio variants to be more useful. These are the two I use more often:

• (real_sent_group+real_sent_region_restricted)/real_sent_cv --> checks percentage of giveaways that are accessible to all site members, using Real CV and not giveaway numbers.
• real_sent_private/real_sent_cv --> checks percentage of giveaways that were (most likely) posted on this forum.

In any case I find the flexibility that SGTools offers to be much more useful than using levels, which is why almost all of my forum giveaways are level Level 0 and rely on SGTools rules (typically also allowing Level 0 users if they were unlucky and/or have the game wishlisted).

I think a more important question would be how high a ratio you actually care about... (2:1 3:1 7:1)?
We'be all seen those people with 400-700 GA's won and 2-3 sent and this annoys some people alot more than others (hence all the sgtools GA's with a 0.2 real ratio . But asking people to maintain a ratio of 1:1 or even higher makes me feel like it defeats the purpose of making GA's as othere have already mentioned.
A poll with different ratios ranging from really high CV sent vs Won all the way to really low (along with a ratio has no impact) option might be intresting.

Real CV Sent - Real CV Won.
I have not given away almost 5x the stuff I've received. In reality, it's barely 2x the times I've received (According to SGTools) .

For me, a ratio is the amount of won games versus the amount of given games. Nothing more, nothing less.
It should never be about the money in my opinion, that is why I find the "real CV" filters lame and pointless.

Usually when I use ratio, I use real cv, but generally with a 10:1 ratio limit, just to avoid people who give the bare minimum and enter for a lot. But both real CV and number of games "works" as a ratio, but neither paint a perfect picture.

if i had to pick between gifts sent: won and real cv, i would go with the second one. it's harder to "fake" it with 500 copies giveaways and 5-cent bundles. ❤️️

but i'd go with the extra option bludshade mentioned, number of played/finished wins seem more fair. i hate game collectors that leech sg to +1 their libraries.

Ratio is one of the giveaway filters amongst a lot of others like WL, BL, CV level, invite only, puzzle giveaways, private giveaways, SGTools giveaways, group giveaways, region restricted giveaways,... Some people use gifts sent or CV sent or both or nothing but the rule of thumb remains the same for all of the people making giveaways: it's up to the individual giveaway creator how he or she wants to make his or her giveaways aka "my giveaways my rules".

The only ratio I look at and care about is how many games were actually played from the total number of wins.

For me it's both took negative way ;p If someone has good Real CV ratio even if has horrible numerical ratio its fine for me. Maybe he wish to make just high quality nonbundle GAs, who am I to judge? If someone has good numerical ratio but poor RealCV its ok for me as well. You may get lucky, win 2 AAA games and uour ratio would be screwed because you cannot afford to make 120$ CV GAs just like that, all you can afford are some bundles. So I will consider a leecher only when he has very low ratio in BOTH numerical and RealCV.

Of the two, RealCV makes more sense to me for "ratio." I don't get too caught up with ratio unless it's really egregious...like you're just going out of your way to win everything you can and contribute nothing or almost nothing.

But as others have said, the most important ratio for me is games played / games won.