Winners have 7 days to activate their gift, but if I spot the winner online all the time, over the course of several days, and entering more giveaways without activating this to their account first, that's a blacklist.
Please set your profile and games to public if you win, so that I can properly check it before giving you the key. I usually send the key within the day.
I don't blacklist for not playing the games.
Please don't leave thank-you messages, its not mandatory, not even for the winner.
"but if I spot the winner online all the time, over the course of several days, and entering more giveaways without activating this to their account first, that's a blacklist."
This is why I don't give away many gifts directly from Steam. It starts with one person loafing around, continues with several rerolls, and ends with the damn sale being over and having to choose between purchasing the gift at full price or deleting the giveaway. I refuse to even tempt that possibility.
It's also quite rude! It shows a distinct lack of any sort of respect for the time and money spent.
This site is exhausting. I'm sure it's even more so for you, considering all the giveaways you've made.
I hope this comment is okay. I saw what you wrote, and just had to say something. This shit eats at me.
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Most of my giveaways are actually keys from bundles, this case as well, games I already own or games I simply won't play.
But yeah, the reason for the message is to avoid exhausting myself chasing users who, enter all giveaways and then just close the website, it simply doesn't make sense to me.
Coming back and seeing their entered giveaways count going up, still online, then they go offline, still haven't activated the game, repeating this day after day. Why? Bots?
Who knows... The important bit is, ever since I started leaving this message on my giveaways, I rarely run into any issues! Works wonders, almost like the users filter themselves out as soon as they see it.
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Many of my giveaways have been from Steam. I see a game that I like, and I want others to have it. It just sucks when a giveaway starts to get close to the end of the sale date. 🥴
Sounds useful! Rather like they see the blacklist threat, and take themselves elsewhere.
Either way, I'm happy that you've whittled down the problematic users a bit.
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