Banning (and banned people's GAs)

trust me - he did not get banned just for 5 gifts marked not received ;)
Also for real life laws - nocalling out and no public charging are very good things to have on SG. Because contrary to RL this is internet. People on internet tend to act much worse than in RL. Last thing SG needs is outrage of public shaming and rule breaking, and it would be just this without these rules.
As for your company example - yes. Prima pars est aequitatis aequalitas. Law should treat everyone equaly - if it does not it's not just. Without equality there cannot be justice, and any law without justice is pointless. So in your example - if company has rules that you cannot use FB, you don't use FB. Simple as that.

I don't know if it has already mentioned. It seems you are under a wrong impression. You will not get suspended or banned for not delivering a game of your giveaways. It will "just" take away a giveaway slot. If you do this more often you'll run out of slots but you will not be suspended. "Typical reasons" for suspension are:

• Regifting a game you did win
• Not activating a game you did win
• Gifting away a game different from the one you labelled in your giveaway
  Maybe others can add more

well - if it had no logical sense, here I come to save the logic! No matter if my comment or not! ;p

I don't care who jacks the comment tree, we're all just dropping our own opinions on the matter anyway. I have read a number of the other comments being made here as well as contradictions and statements made solely for the sake of argument. If you have faith in the staff then you can't be worried about some corruption conspiracy. They're either doing their job right or they're not, and so far I'd say things seem to be going well.

Private matters are just that and I don't really wish to go in-depth on the matter. If someone has been punished and you know them then you can talk to them about it and it is their choice on whether or not they share it with you. If you don't know them then it is not really any of your business what they did unless it affected you directly, in which case you'd already know. There may be less here to take action against but these things are generally handled in a similar matter no matter where you might go. Making a public example of someone, for instance, is often seen as lacking professionalism. You may not see what's going on but you don't need to if staff is giving you peace of mind, just like any other online or real world task force likely should do.

On our side of the fence all you really need is "Are they or are they not breaking the rules?". If they're not, then carry on with business as usual. If they are, then do what you must to proceed with the matter or ignore them, as people in the example have been instructed. We're not registering sex offenders here, so they do not need to be branded further. Would you like a publicly available record for every crime petty or otherwise that has been committed by yourself and all other persons living in your immediate area?

If you do feel however that you or someone you know has been handled wrongly then you're always free to forward your concerns higher up the chain of command. Nobody is perfect and some try harder than others to get there.

Edit: Also, people who evade bans are not as pure as you'd think. Staff can see them for who they are based on a number of things not publicly visible. Whether or not an automatic flagging system is in place for it I am uncertain of, but the people who do these things are usually caught in a reasonable time-frame. People who push the system hard would then be observed more closely as needed.

but you are talking bad about a whole group of people based on a few radicals. It's no good. You can find radicals in any group through history. What about of hundreds of years of christian oppression in middle ages? What about western countries organizing crusades? What about right wing fanatic (Breivik) killing innocent children and teenagers? What about left-wing fanatics setting up bombs through whole 20th century? And so on and on.

"If we don't do something about it, soon, Islam will flood us."

That statement was the only thing I based my response upon. By "flood," I assumed you meant "with people," but I suppose I could have been mistaken.

As a Muslim, I find the idea of Islam "flooding" anything to be both odd and understandable. Odd from the standpoint of what I mentioned in my response; Islam does not "flood" anything. Understandable because the non-Muslims are so misinformed about Islam and Muslims. That is by design, of course. Those who fear and/or hate Islam are in a constant battle to prevent people from finding out the truth about it. The only way they can hope to prevent Islamic ideas from "taking over" is to spread lies about the religion and stir up the population against it in a modern "Crusade." It didn't work before, and it won't work now. The truth will always "out."

That is why we Muslims are not overly concerned with "bad PR." We get it all the time, and it flies in the face of reality. All we hear, day and night, is about the problems caused by "fundamentalist, Wahhaabi, Islamist, jihaadi terrorists." What a load of rubbish. Of all those adjectives, only "terrorists" might conceivably be applicable, but even that is a misuse of the term..

• All Muslims are "fundamentalists." If you aren't, you're in violation of one of Islam's core tenets and are considered non-Muslim..
• "Wahhaabi" is a term invented by the Sufi's in their struggle against those who kicked them out of power in Arabia. There is no such thing as a "Wahhaabi."
• All Muslims are Islamists except for those who don't know enough about their religion to even practice it.
• The term "jihaadi" is straight-up invented by the non-Muslims. If it were applied accurately, in accordance with what the word "jihaad" means, it would apply to all Muslims. The way the non-Christians use it, however, it doesn't apply to Muslims at all. No, not even ISIS.
• "Terrorists" is not really accurate, either. A terrorist is someone who uses fear as a means of coercing a population. Groups like ISIS, The Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaedah, and so on have zero interest in the cooperation of non-Muslims.

So, what word accurately describes those causing such a fuss in the world? The answer is "extremists." Despite all of the varying names, they're all the same and should be considered one group. They have one overriding principle: by any means necessary, and that principle is in direct conflict with Islam. Yes, it is indeed true; the natural enemy of extremism is the body of Muslims and the true Islamic State (at such time as it is re-established). Had the non-Muslims left us alone to found a new Islamic State, those groups would have been stamped out. Since they prevented every attempt, however, those groups continue to pop up and spread like a mold or fungus and have been left alone to flourish. Not only do the non-Muslims not know how to deal with this group, they don't even understand what they are up against.

OK, I think I've rambled on quite long enough. Soapbox off.

I was partially joking in the first part of that.

Anything having to do with the moderation of your account is considered private information and will not be given out to the general public.

but when you can't activate 'cause you've been given a key that's not for your region?

I don't think you can :( The easiest way would be to try redeeming it yourself. If it's used, steam'll tell that it's used. if it's not steam will tell that you have that game. the problem is when you don't have the game...

the person clicked recieved in the first week and changed it after the week was over, then he clicked not recieved, you understand it now?

did you miss the whole part about people not giving a F about the reason and will humiliate anyway?
and the whole part of me not defending wstern culture?
what it gives me? peace of mind. want something less prosaic? here, I'll strike you with yet another quickly assembled real life example:
Imagine country. Criminals in that country are just beeing put to jail. No explenation why nor anything. How can people prevent crimes and thus reduce the crime rates if they don't even know where the problem is?
Why won't you try to see the good people around you? All you said from the beggining of this conversation is how bad everyone is and how everyone is traying to hurt others! Is this really your world?! If so, I'm really sorry for you. But I can tell you that there are many good, kind and honest people around. Even here, on the interwebs, which you seem to present as babylon of our lives...

now, finish it. you go over the same thing all over and over. I'm gonna ask one simple question, and expect one simple answer, no bulls*it, ok?

How can stating the reason of the ban hurt someone more then the publicly visible ban itself? (especially if it's permanent)

k, but can you, as a mod (not here, but still) tell me what is, if there is any, reasoning behind it? (not making the reason of the ban visible to everyone)