What are usually your Giveaways level requirement?

Look at groups like Playing appreciated if it really bothers you, or you can put your games behind puzzles. But sometimes increasing the level does not help, I know a couple lvl 10 leeches.

You can make public GA's. Use there at least lvl 2 to hold the baddest ones away.
At that level i Blacklistet 180 from 330 that entered a GA from me (no joke), so in my opinion are Public GA's too often wasted money and time.

I prefer to use sgtools or group GA's

Example:
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/Bc22Q/masafors-giveaways-21-new-gas-lvl1-05-real-cv-ratio-o

You can make a GA req at any level even if it's higher than yours. Playing appreciated is great to make sure a good game is at least played ;) and sgtools with custom rules on the forum definitely sifts through many users.

Here's a rough guideline:

Level 0 - full of bots and leechers
Level 1 - cuts out most of the bots and leechers, but still has lots of both
Level 2 - mostly people, lots of card farmers
Level 3 - mostly active members
Level 4 - active members that may play the game
Level 5 - active members that will probably play the game
Level 6+ - just increasing the odds of winning for the most generous people

If you want to make it available for the largest number of people, but you want to cut out most of the bots / leechers - Level 1.
If you want to cut out even more bots / leechers, at the cost of a few people - Level 2
If you want someone to actually play your game - Level 4/5 (or Playing Appreciated group)

Well?
Lv 0-2 Bot and the nest of problematic people
90% of Lv 0 can be regarded as a bot.
80% of Lv 1 may be regarded as a bot.
60% of Lv 2 may be regarded as a bot.
Lv 3 or more.10% of the applicants who have broken the contract once 50% are fugitive. Bot less than 20%.
A part of this story is a joke, but the rest is true.XD

In public GA setting, Lv 3 or more.
If you can build it below that, you need to devise a way to raise the human rate by using invitations and puzzles.

Long ago, I did such an investigation.
Giveaways Trap :) https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/0f2Oq/giveaways-trap
Add applicants to the block list! I have made GA.
There seems to be a BOT corresponding to the bulletin board.

lv0 to 10 are full of leeches and bots, so just pick whatever level you feel like giving to. 👍

I always do [my level - 1], well, sort of. I remembered being "motivated" in giving so I can reach lvl such and such, so maybe it will create the same impact for some people. Prob not tho haha

Minimum level is not the solution to avoid this type of entries. Specific groups (like PA, APG, U7), whitelist and invite-only forum giveaways are the ways you'll get mostly nicer people to enter and win your GAs :)

But to answer your question, I always put a level 1 barrier because level 1 is juste one game to give away, which means only members who care at least just a tiny little bit about not amassing games they're not interested into can enter. But again, not flawless at all.

what is " leeches"?

On level 1 I created only level 1 giveaways. Now I create only level 8 giveaways.

What do you guys usually do about this? It doesn't concern you?

It doesnt concern me. I just need the CV and not his/her "Thanks" -.-

What do you guys usually do about this? It doesn't concern you?

Simply put - nope, not usually.

If I have something I would really like to see played, I'll put it up for a couple of groups and/or whitelist. Yet, I've still seen others ask in whitelist giveaways "Please do not enter unless you intend to play the game", and there are shameless people who never play anything, much less their wins, and still enter.

You are, of course, free to manage your giveaways as you see fit, and there are actually groups that mandate you play any wins within that group. That may be the course you wish to take. You're not going to avoid "leeches" (I hate using that word on a site dedicated to gifting ...), bots or idlers at any level, though.

TBH it doesn't bothers me who wins my GAs. Once the game leaves my hands it's their problem what they do with it. I do have some criteria for level requirements, mainly 2+ to try to lower chances of people that don't activate their wins, and I reserve better games to higher levels, whitelist or group.

What do you guys usually do about this?

I blacklist.
And I suggest at least level 5 if you don't wanna get pi**ed too often.

I've never created a giveaway with level other than 0.

From my point of view someone with 10,000 games given and 500 won isn't more eligible to win than someone with 0 games given and 500 won. For either of them a win is just another one on the pile, but the one who gave away a lot is also flaunting their ability to get their own games, making the win even less significant. (I'm not saying that the one who gives a lot is necessarily less worthy of winning; the one who didn't give could also have a huge library. But they're definitely less worthy of winning compared to those who have won fewer games.)

I'd rather that someone who hasn't won a lot wins my games, regardless of how much they gave.

Almost always Level 0. If I want to restrict to contributors (or other users, e.g. those who haven't won anything), I'll use SGTools.

Eh, level requirements don't do much. If I want to see a game played, I set up some sort of a forum event where I gather people who have a history of playing similar games/its prequels. Otherwise, you can always do forum drops with SGTools checks (game has been wishlisted for at least a while + wishlist size is small), or do the usual Playing Appreciated and similar group giveaways.

Due to CV boosts, it barely makes a difference between level 1 or level 5. I'd say that either no level to give access to everyone (including bots, leechers and spammers) or 6+.

My opinion:

I think you have to be clear with yourself and what you want. Do you want the game to be played? Do you want to give to someone who give back on Steamgifts? more than he wins? To someone active on Steamgfits (including discussions etc.)? To someone who give to the community and not exclusive groups or regions? There are differents answer for all these questions. Putting a level requirement is not enough.

• If you want to give to worthy people (according your own opinion) because they are active on discussion, the best is to whitelist them.
• If you want the game to be played, there are some specific group.

Whitelist and groups can be combined when creating your giveaway.

• SGTools can answer most of your problem but is harder to implement correctly.

Keep in mind there are "leechers" from lvl0 to 10. In fact it depends of your vision of the leech. Lvl10 people had to give alot to be there: Do you think they deserve to win more than they give? Answer is not so simple because there are some people creating exclusivly region locked giveaways or exchanging games inside small and private groups, thus leveling with minimal public giveaways. Are these people worthy? It's you to decide.

What is sure:

• There are "less leechers" with higher levels simply because they are fewer. It doesnt means higher levels gave more than they received or are worthy.
• Lvl 2 can be reached with one small dollar. Leechers know that.
• You cant blacklist everyone, there is a limit. 1000 slots.
• You give for yourself. It makes you happy or give you something back. It's you to decide how to do it.

Personally, i use public system for quick GA of minor games. And I use it for game I can't give to group or whitelist because everybody already own it. Lvl 0 to 5 are the same for me. My last one was lvl5 and i got 2 bad ratio winners (and minor problem with the reception of the game). Most of the entries got bad ratio as well → It's less fun for me. I gave DLC months ago, on the 130+ entries, nobody owned the base game... no comment

I whitelist people I consider worthy: active people, fair ratio, from whom I won a lot. I do some random whitelist according ratio and account checking. I try to give them some good games when I can (but most of them already own alot).

I dont give in order to the game to be play or I give it to a friend directly.

I participate to some exclusive groups but I always check and try to keep a minimum part of public giveaways (actually 43%).

I sometimes use SGTools to filter and discover more "worthy" people.. It allowed me to whitelisted some users, to do some statistics and better understand the system. Thus I discovered some high leveled "worthy" users always give to some others ( 90%+ region locked or exclusive groups giveaways). ESGST is great to do some stats. → I'm working on advanced SGTools rules but It's not intentend to be some permanent rules, more some experience.

I blacklist some dumb users and mega leechers.

Hope it helps.

[MyLevel] - 1 feels right most of time for me.

I wouldn't be concerned about levels at all if it wasn't for those, ehm, special people with like 100 gifts won vs 0 given. Started making giveaways with a simple SGTools filter where I set the ratio to at least 1 game sent for every 2 (sometimes 3) games won. Working like a charm ;)

People always assume that only high level users play their wins so they set their requirements to like lvl 5+, that's incredibly unfair to many lower lever users. But this kind of mentality is bound to happen I suppose, with the way how SG encourages elitism :/

I still have to understand what bots specifically do on this website and how (and why) someone takes his time to make such bots through I don't know which PC programs xD
anyways you got lots of awesome replies and information here <3

No level requirement for WL, WL group and group giveaways.

Level 2 for SGTools trains and level 3 for SGTools thread giveaways.

Public giveaways ranging from level 0 to level X.

Level 2 if it's region restricted, level 6 if it's not.
But I mostly just do whitelist giveaways with no level requirement now.