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Enjoy!
(Edited description to reflect appropriate site giveaway rules)

Be warned support could refuse your reroll request. From the FAQs:

What should I do if the winner of my giveaway has not redeemed their gift, and I'm unable to get into contact with them?

If you've been unable to reach the winner of your giveaway using email and Steam after one week of your giveaway ending, and they have not yet activated or redeemed any keys or gifts you attempted to send, please contact support to request a new winner. When creating a ticket, we ask you to include data that suggests you made an adequate attempt to contact the winner, such as screenshots of emails, friend requests, or gifts pending on Steam. If the request is approved, a new winner will be generated by the site.

4 years ago
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Thanks, I guess I should change the requirement to a week instead of just 1 day

4 years ago
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Still, it doesnt work like that. Its your job to contact winner and not the winners job to contact you. They wont accept reroll, just so you are aware.

4 years ago
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I'm not saying I won't contact the winner, I'm saying if they never respond on the page or through contacting them, I'm assuming they don't want the game if that makes sense? Are you saying there is no way to create a public giveaway with your own set of rules?

4 years ago
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Strange request to contact winner and demand they write a comment in giveaway page, and that you will not give the game to them if they wont. :)

I highly doubt support will reroll if the winner for some reason wouldnt comment here.

4 years ago
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I just don't want to give the key away to script bots, or people who don't leave feedback that they got the key after weeks on end. I don't think it's strange at all to want people to verify that they're human. If they didn't want to comment on the giveaway page OR contact me directly, why would they enter the giveaway anyways?

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So you expect a "thank you"? What good is a reroll then? If they got the key and stay mute (which is rude, I agree), a reroll would only lead to a non activatable key.
I think the only thing you can do is blacklist such users/bots, so they don't get the chance to win something from you again.

4 years ago
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I don't expect a thank you, rather an acknowledgment that they got it. So you're saying this giveaway system is so broken that we can't expect people to follow a simple ga rule? aren't we just wasting keys in the first place?

4 years ago
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Well you get a ackowledgment: Users have to confirm the key als received. But that's not the same as writing some sort of comment of course.
Either way my question stands: What good would a reroll be, when the key has already been used?

And about your question: Yes, SG just doesn't work like that. We can like it or not, but by using this platform, we agree to their benefits and limitations. If you'd like to limit the users you can always make an "invite only"-GA and publish it on the forums. If you like you can even hide the link behind a sgtools-link (http://www.sgtools.info/giveaways/manage) where you can set much more limitations or you put a little test in front of the link (i.e. on http://www.itstoohard.com/) to block out bots. Or you join one of the closed groups, where your chances are much higher of having quality users.

4 years ago
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I don't think a reroll would be needed If I wait for an acknowledgment before I reveal the key / send the gift. Well, I haven't really explored using the tool yet as I am just a couple of weeks in. Is it not within the scope of the public giveaway to ask for a tiny bit of verification? From what I understood, it's not a "Special" thing I'm requiring like following on twitter or subscribing to a youtube account. Regarding groups, like I said, I am new, and groups have requirements that I may not have been able to fulfill as of yet. Am I violating any rules by asking users to do a specific thing they can do on the site itself? Feel free to tell me if I am (or report me to support). Why does it matter to you so much if I ask people to jump one small hoop that doesn't even require them to leave the site?

4 years ago
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Actually, it doesn't matter that much to me. I (and I probably speak for the other two users as well) just try to help you, not to run into a problem. 😃
Actually you are indeed violating rules, by making this verification mandatory. You are not allowed to make any additonal requirements in the description, even if it's a small thing like in your case. (The same problem goes with keys that sometimes don't work even though you bought them normaly. You can ask the winner to agree to delete the GA but you cannot force it even if you write it in the description.) An no, why should I report you? You didn't do me any wrong.
And even though I very much sympathize with your wish, the problem is to where the line has to be drawn. Is it ok to ask for a comment? Is it ok to ask for a comment within a specific time? Is it ok, to ask for a specific comment (like "post a cat picture")? So the site owners decided to rule out any such requirements, which I think is understandable.
I for my part also feel like it should be the most normal thing to say "thank you" when you win something. But it seems this is not the case for quite some users. So I just block those who don't thank me, so they at least don't get a second chance to just grab a GA. Not very efficient, but that's all I can do (beside making mainly group-GAs and whitelist-GAs beside some Invitation only through the forum).

PS: Another possibility I saw today: Someone posted a GA and had the link to a second Invite-only GA in the description so those who read the description get a bonus chance. Also very clever I think.

4 years ago
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Where does it say I am not allowed to make additional requirements mandatory? Isn't that the same thing SGtools is doing, just that I'm doing it in plain text and making less narrow requirements (and in plain "script" as opposed to running a script).. I don't really see any rule regarding this, but if you insist there is, then maybe this site really isn't for me

4 years ago
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Well all I can tell you, is that there is a history of rulings against this. The key thing is this: "You cannot ask users to perform any special action in order for their entry to be considered valid, such as liking a Facebook page, or following a Twitter account."
You are allowed to only give out an invite only link to users who performed certain actions (like solving a puzzle, going thourgh a SGtools-filter, being in a certain group etc.) but you cannot deny a winner his key, because he didn't do something. It's the difference between considering a entry invalid or preventing someone from entering at all.

Which brings me back to my initial question: What good would a reroll be, when the key has already been used?

4 years ago
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Like I said, it's your interpretation of "special action", what's cited there is instructing people to do other things not native to the site, at least in my interpretation of it. If I don't reveal the key before acknowledgment, how will it be used? I've answered this previously if you actually wanted to read it

4 years ago
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Well, actually it's not my interpretation but how I saw this rule put to action on this page. And again, it's not about the kind of action you demand, but the fact that a creator of a giveaway cannot just make an entry invalid. (Look at it this way: You theoretically could even add such a description text after the GA ended and use it as an excuse to ask for a reroll because you didn't like the winner.) It's not the best rule, but somehow they have to prevent arbitrariness.

And you really don't have to get salty. I actually read all your answers and didn't say it this clearly. In the opposite: "I don't expect a thank you, rather an acknowledgment that they got it." This sounds to me like you expect an acknowledgment that the other user got the key and therefore my question.

Sorry that we try to help you 🙄

4 years ago
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I don't really see your tone being helpful at all, rather a way to nudge me into how you perceive the rules to be implemented (and maybe it is that way, I don't claim to know, and no one of authority here has come to ask me to modify it or take it down). If you feel like you don't want to deal with any form of "arbitrariness" you have a weird way of showing it.
I'm not at all salty, just trying to explain how I perceive things to be. And yes. an acknowledgment is not the same as a "thank you", much like a grunt or any kind of sound doesn't equate to "yes" automatically.

I don't think you apologize, but from how you are sounding, I apologize if you think this giveaway shouldn't exist the way it currently is.

4 years ago
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You know what? I actually don't care about your little rule. It doesn't affect me at all. All I wanted to do (and I guess the other users who answered you as well), was helping you to know, how mods handle things here, so you don't have to find out the hard way. If you don't want to hear this: Fine. Your problem. But your rude attitude and salty phrases like "I've answered this previously if you actually wanted to read it" are just not necessary. Sorry if I bothered you.

4 years ago
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I'm not sure your definition of "salty" matches with mine, if you read that as disrespectful, then I apologise, but it did (and does) seem to me that you are trying to police my giveaway. In no way did ever react out of spite, but just to stand my ground and discuss with you how I feel about you thinking my (rudimentary) arbitrary thing should be replaced with more arbitrary things and how one is allowed and one is not. I assumed (and in your opinion, wrongly so) that since I am not making things more complicated as say dealing with scripts, hyperlinks and more restrictive criteria, and I am not promoting anything outside of the site that I am in the clear. You've stated your opinion and I've stated mine. I think it was necessary to say what I said since you seem to be just addressing what you want to address rather than promoting an actual between the two of us. Anyhoos, again I apologise if this brought some drama into your day. Not my intention.

PPS I appreciate your concern with how the mods will be handling this. If it's something that's frowned upon, well, they have the authority to remove me and my giveaways from the site and that is that

4 years ago
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The key must be activated on the steam account which won it, normally mods do random test on winners and ban users who don't respect this rule.
But Gibor is right, according to the rules of this website, mods won't let you reroll the winner if they don't comment this page, and you will get the sanction if you don't give them the key.
If you don't trust him, open a support ticket and directly ask them.
If you want to create your giveways with specifics rules, try another website.

4 years ago
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Thanks, I do have a support ticket open and will ask specifics when a mode responds.I appreciate the continuous concern-trolling, you guys!

4 years ago
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Thanks for your reply and especially your Steam account comment. I'm glad we can sort this out. I accept your apology and I apologize myself, that my comments seemed like i try to police you and your giveaway. That wasn't my attention at all. I don't see any gain in policing anyone.
I was hoping, I could hep a fresh user to understand better how the site works. Obviously that didn't came across well and I'm really sorry for that.
For me the case is closed and I hope you find a good way into thsi site and around the annoying users. Until another time!

4 years ago
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Thanks for the graciousness and trying to see where I was coming from. Truly appreciated. See you around!

4 years ago
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Thanks~

4 years ago
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Thank you very much! ;)

4 years ago
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Appreciated. Enjoy!

4 years ago
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