Most of their (recent) giveaways have little to no entries. Also, these giveaways appear to be invite only (and as a result multiple winners are the same).
Edit: This particular user seems to host whitelist-only giveaways for the most part
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Yes, I'm aware of that, but still their activities seem off.
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I don't get it, what do you suspect them of doing?
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Boosting contribution level somehow? Level increases a bit with any successful giveaway with at least 5 entries. As their giveaways are invite/whitelist-only, those within the group, their levels will increase slowly. And majority of this user's giveaways are for titles which can be obtained from other giveaways sites, promotions or similar, which obviously is fine. All this is probably not against the guidelines, but it could be like a level-boosting cabal of sorts
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I have a bunch of WL giveaways with 1 entry. I wanted to give some games to the specific people and be sure that the game will be activated. It was a bunch of events, something like "the most interesting poem about this game will win you this game".
What I'm trying to say is, it seems to me highly unlikely that this user is up to something. They probably had they reasons for such giveaways. But you can report them just in case – nobody will know. If they are alright nothing happens anyway. It'll hurt nobody. Expect some time waiting to resolve the ticket though.
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I understand. As others have also mentioned, this user probably hosts invite/whitelist-only for those reasons only. Also, they have a good standing and if they were actually up to something, somebody else would probably have noticed as well.
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many users are only creating private, whitelist or group giveaway, there is nothing against the rules about that.
for example, few months after I joined steamgifts 8 years ago, I've been in a steam group with about 30 people and we had rules (make X number of group only giveaway per month with X amount of CV minimum etc or the next month you are being ban from the group)
so those ga had most of the time 0 to a dozen entries maximum, nothing strange
if you don't tell us more about what you think is weird we can't help.
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Yours seem to be a reasonable explanation. I believe this is a similar case. As mentioned I'm new to the site, and while I'm familiar with group giveaways, whitelist/invite only giveaways I'm completely unfamiliar with. This user's giveaways as stated above have little to no entries and are whitelist/invite only. While I don't check every other profile, the few I've (ones who also appear to host invite/whitelist-only giveaways), have at least 5 entries. Which is why this particular user seemed off to me (although with less than 5 entries, their level won't increase).
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It could also be someone who make very hard puzzles (thus very few entries), but I guess you would already see their topic in the Puzzle/Event here, so it's unlikely to be that.
It could be a steam group with very few people and weird rules, let's say if someone in the group create three 10CV ga, that means they can win for 30CV of other members' ga, no matter the number of entries as long as it is not 0. (could be almost like trading if they organized things and agree about the games etc being kinda random tho)
In that case they don't care about the CV system here, but have their own system.
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That second bit, that seems very weird. I don't know if that's the case here, but is that okay? Well in any case, I guess they are legit. Might just report them (as user lovol said, they won't have any problems as long as they are clean) as it's a "no harm, no foul" scenario.
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Sure, send a ticket and explain why you think there is something weird, support will investigate.
Few years ago I reported someone who won my ga and seems really strange to me because when I checked their steam profile, they had only 1 friend and that friend was also someone who entered my ga, their activity were matching by the minute and the mail address of the winner was "the other user's name"@mail.com etc
So it definetly looked like multi account, and I guess I was right because they are both permaban since.
If there is something wrong, support will take care of that.
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Thank you for your input. In your case, it's good that you looked into it and took action. I guess I'll go ahead and close the topic now as no further headway can be made it seems and there are some reasonable explanations re their activity.
Well, thank you folks for your responses. Keep well, y'all. Cheers!
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Maybe they were tired of people joining their giveaways who own like 10,000 games and just join every single giveaway. I personally started doing some whitelist only giveaways for new DBD DLC because I was tired of people winning them who had thousands of games and had never even opened the game. I wanted someone to win who I thought actually wanted to play.
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Also, there is a report button on profiles if you really think something is going on with someone or you notice someone is breaking the rules of the site
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Maybe you're right. This is another valid reason why they are doing what they are doing.
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I thought it's going to be one of these topics where there's a link that always redirects to the clicking person
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There's a user profile I've come across whose activities appear "off" to me. They have been registered for quite some time and their contribution level is "good". Using SG Tools I found that they won the same title twice a little more than a couple years back. Other than that they don't seem to have any unactivated wins (although there are multiple whitelisted false positives / DLCs that don't always show up as activated / games no longer in the Steam API database to check) or anything. To clarify, the multiple win is not the "off activity" I'm referring to.
I myself am very new to SG so I am most certainly mistaken here (one reason why I've been as vague as possible), but on the off chance I'm not, what should I do?
I'm not interested in this particular user just because, there's a reason to it. Don't want to reveal their name / report them / contact mod support based on conjecture, hence this discussion.
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