Hi SG, we just rolled out an update to the way blacklists work, and I wanted to create a quick announcement to explain the difference. Previously, if you blacklisted a user, they would not be able to enter your giveaways, or see them on the homepage. Now, there is one addition: If you blacklist a user, you will also not be able to enter their giveaways, or see them on the homepage.

There are two reasons for the change...

  1. It's more fair to giveaway creators, and it prevents users from quietly blacklisting a giveaway creator, while continuing to enter their giveaways.
  2. It will encourage users to put more thought into their reason for blacklisting another user, and it should discourage blacklisting over minor grievances.

This might leave you wondering, is there anything preventing you from unblacklisting a user, entering their giveaways, and then blacklisting them again? Yes. When unblacklisting a user, there is a delay between one second and one day week until you once again see their giveaways on the homepage, and have access to entering them. If you try to directly open their giveaways sooner, you will see an error, such as "You do not have permission to view this giveaway for another 35 minutes, since you previously blacklisted the giveaway creator.". The length of the delay is proportional to the amount of time you had the user blacklisted (i.e. if you blacklisted a user for 5 hours, you'll need to wait 5 hours after unblacklisting the user), up to the maximum of one day week.

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good change, if someone wishes to blacklist someone, they shouldn't be able to join that person's giveaways..

6 years ago
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I like this change. Question: Is it retroactive?

6 years ago
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Yes.

6 years ago
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Thank you for your answer :)

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I salute this.

6 years ago
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It's nice to see you listening to userbase.

6 years ago
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Just a question, but can we still see public giveaways from people we've blacklisted?
In my case, seeing people be generous is reason enough to remove that BL.

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You can't, which is why you will keep them BL'd forever.

6 years ago
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Only leaves manual reevaluation.

6 years ago
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Great news! Three hours since opening of the thread and blacklists are already starting to clear up a bit.

6 years ago
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This is the greatest news I have ever heard here. Thanks a lot. <3

6 years ago
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I'm proud of this rule. This site is very loving and caring in my eyes and when I hear about the few bad eggs here and there it hurts. There are fair reasons to blacklist someone I'm sure. But this will help make sure those fair reasons are well considered before doing so.

6 years ago
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Thank you for this awesome new feature Cg! <3

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6 years ago
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I'm good with a week instead of a day.

I don't enter GAs of those I have blacklisted anyhow so that part is unaffected.
I see one of my blacklist marks has gone away. I have no idea who however. I'd return the favor if I could. Perhaps it does not matter if it works how I think.

So please clarify.

Set 1
A and B both have each other blacklisted.
A removes the mark on his side. Net effect remains the same. Neither can enter a GA the other made.

Set 2
A blacklists B but B has no mark against A. Same starting net affect. Full blacklist is in effect.
A now removes the blackmark against B. Now both can enter GAs made by each other.

Are both Set 1 and Set 2 true?

I have 14 on my blacklist. 19, now 18 have me on their list.
At least 3 of those on my list are permanent for things they did either to me or to others. The others are only because I saw they blacklisted me first. I only know the reason for 1 of those. I disagree with the reason but thats fine. The rest are unknown. I'd be happy to remove all but the 3 so long as those I remove can't enter my stuff until they also remove me from their list. Its now up to them.

The way its currently worded it looks like they can remove themselves from my list simply by removing me from theirs. I'm sure thats not the case but please confirm both sides need to not have a black mark against the other to enter GAs. If either side has a mark against someone then NEITHER side can enter a GA of the other.

6 years ago
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Yes, both examples you listed are accurate.

6 years ago
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Thank you. In that case I'm removing most of those on my list. Great feature.

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6 years ago
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I, the Emperor of China, approve of this change!

6 years ago
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Very fair update, thanks !

6 years ago
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This is awesome! Except two exceptions I just blacklisted people who blacklisted me (to have the effect that is implemented now).
Thank you so much for this!

6 years ago
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Well. I think it's a sad change. I never intended to us blacklist feature and now it's forced onto me as people who blacklisted me for some righteous or silly reason won't be able to participate in any gibs i make. It should be at least optional :/ Yes.

6 years ago
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Radujmy się! Dobra zmiana wkrótce ogarnie cały świat

Z poważaniem,
Kot Prezesa

;)

6 years ago
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Fair, very fair change. Thank you.

6 years ago
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Great news! I was always stalking those, who blacklist me for no reason.
Now they won`t be able to get into my giveaways. Yay!

P.S Made an amnesty for loyal users. Feel free to check my giveaways out again :heart:

6 years ago
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Good, I guy I blacklisted whitelisted me, i guess for making me feel weird. I won't see his/her giveaways anymore

6 years ago
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Just a question, u ever will do anything with Steamtrades? Its heaven for scammers, multiaccounting etc etc, on forum is already lot of ideas to improve. Thanks for ANY reply (maybe)

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6 years ago
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Oh nice. But what if I want people who blacklisted me to be able to enter my giveaways? Why do you block those people from my giveaways without asking me first? At least make this configurable! IT'S UNFAIR!

6 years ago
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Wouldn't it be better to make it optional? I have nothing against people who blacklist me and don't mind them entering my giveaways. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that.

6 years ago
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So when somebody will create a 2 weeks giveaway I could simply unblacklist someone, waiy for a day, enter a giveaway and blacklist them back again?

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