Curiosity. How do you handle those who never run GAs

Just create your giveaways with a level requirement.

If it's an extreme case like you described with winning $300-1000 while never having created a giveaway, I usually blacklist them, yes.
I mean I know that there are people out there who don't have that much money but I'm not rich either and yet I at least manage to give away a few bundled games which I don't really want myself from time to time.

I blacklist them if they have a really bad ratio. I mean, they could always just buy a cheap 1$ bundle and give the games away. No excuse to not contribute considering how cheap bundles are.

I got my first win today. I've been here for 6 months (however not as active as I am now). I'm finally hosting my first two giveaway.

My point? Well. You are, in fact, the first person I've seen who said something like

I considered that, but if everyone did that, every 0 level contributor would never be able to win something.... And it took the reality of winning twice for me to want to participate in giving away myself...

Instead of just

Just create your giveaways with a level requirement.

Which is too simple of an alternative.

Why don't you balance things out? Many (experienced) people here do it like this:

1. Amazing expensive game? Make it available only to those who contributed. Any other game? Make it for everybody.
2. Make private giveaways. Post on forums. That way only those who are active and bother with the forums will partake!
3. Making trains/group GAs/puzzles etc are other alternatives to filter things down.

Hope this helps (:

i started to blacklist people with a ratio worse than 1:8 won/sent (starting with 9 won games without anything sent, so new users have a big chance to avoid it).

also, creating GAs with lv1+ is recommended. you will avoid most trouble with regifters/beggars/etc (i said most, not all).

I never really cared, which is why none of my GAs have had a level requirement, and they never will.

What I do care about is wether people are more active community members or not - main reason why most of my GA's have been going through these forums instead of being public.

Really bad ratios, thank spamming, not reading descriptions and behaving rude lands people on my blacklist. I only create lvl 1+ nowadays and it basically takes a $1 bundle to get there. If they can't afford that I think they should get off this site in hope of free games and actually start making a living or playing free games etc. Maybe I'm being hard on people but isn't there some truth to where I'm coming from?

I don't care that much. A lot of my giveaways have level 1+ because I figure that way users know the site and there's less chance of having to deal with user error, but I don't mind if people have bad ratios, as long as they aren't jerks. At one point I too was a leech, and then I started my bundle addiction and had to get rid of keys somehow...

Add them to blacklist and enjoy your life.

Blacklist them and/or make GAs for high levels.

Personally I dont care much about it, mostly because I have been (and currently I am) in the place of typical guy that doesnt have enough money to buy games gift them to strangers.

Anyway every time you see a user that is abusing the system by winning a shit ton of games but never made a GA just blacklist them, easy peesy

Now that you mentioned it I started looking at people who joined my GA and started blacklisting those who appear too greedy. But also whitelisting the really generous people.
Kinda regret I made my first one free for all. Hope it will go to someone deserving, as I actually bought it full price.
I will also only hold Level 1+ GAs from now on. And maybe more whitelist and forum ones in the future. We'll see.
Phew, so much to learn about this community when you're still new.

Wow this entire thread is disgusting.
We're here to spread happiness not to be cynical jackholes. Some people just can't afford to give away stuff.

I didn't come here expecting to win anything.
I came here to spread a little joy. I don't care who wins my games or what they do with them. I haven't given away the most expensive of games and a lot of them I have given away were bundled, but the point is, people should be far less concerned about how many other games people have won and given away and take a little more joy in spreading around some fun that others may not be able to afford on their own.

Don't judge people, judge only yourself.

What word of GIVE AWAY you don't understand?

While we're at it: I observed that some people seem to have made their only few GAs all, say, 2 years ago. Maybe that's when they first started out and only wanted to boost their level to join even more GAs? Because from then it seems to have been all reaping and no more sowing for them. (Even though some discounted games on Steam cost no more than the equivalent of 3-4 trading cards.)

xD
Sorry for being a cynical jackhole. I couldn't survive in the real world if I wasn't.

I did my first GA before winning anything. I liked the idea and I wanted to contribute.
Then I won my first game after hosting,idk,5 GA maybe? Not sure at all.

Im still lvl1,I dont know exactly how this system works after the update.

I have been giving setting a level requirement equal to my own level (give or take a few) as I've been going along here. It does a couple of things for me:

1. The higher I set the level, the fewer leeches get my games.

2. The higher I set the level, the more it encourages me to give more games away.

Do I feel bad for those who can't enter my giveaways? No. It's not hard to gain levels here. Even donating a couple of bucks to get a bundle or two will get you to level 2. Yes, I understand that a lot of people don't have jobs or an income to buy games. But creating level 0 giveaways only encourages complacency and people to make scripts to click the buttons for them.

Did you come here only to gift games to certain types of people? If so then use the mechanics of this site which allow you to most closely adhere to that intent, e.g. blacklists and level requirements.

i'd rather my giveaways go to people who want to play the game i'm giving away. even better if they are looking for something new to play but can't afford to buy it. i don't care if the winner of my giveaway has won 20 games and never given anything away here.

The way I "handle" those who have never done a GA is that most of my giveaways have a minimum level requirement, with the occasional "open to everyone" giveaway. The real reason however, is to filter out the ungrateful leeches who would enter for anything and trade their winnings away as soon as they receive them.

There is no shortage of level 0 giveaways as everyone gives with a different philosophy and there are many who are of the opinion that those who have contributed in the past should do it out of generosity anyway and don't need special treatment, or that they simply don't need to win as much as others who can't afford to make a giveaway.

As long as there are a wide variety of users giving with various mindsets, the community will keep thriving.

u forgot the real purpos of this site...is to give to the people who cant get by them self...the doesnt need t give ...cuz a lot of them cant a afford buying...and some can buy..but they really not hav to give away...and that also the purpos of the contribute lvl

Honestly I don't care, I give away games because I have the option to give away some games, I don't need them and I don't care what people do with them. If a person that received my game won't give away a game in his life, then it's fine, it's part of this site's system. There will be people that come here simply because they want to get some free games. If the site worked in a "fair" way, then the site would not allow people to enter giveaways unless they balance their giveaway count. At this point, wouldn't this site be called SteamTrading? Cause all you do is give and receive an equal value at that point.

With free indigala games here like GA, i detected more than 200 leechers with absurd W/G ratios 30/0, 51/1, 20/0 and stuff like that, maybe i will begin to create Lv1 like you guy says

When I donate money or stuff to charity, I never question how much does the recipient contribute to the world. I use the same mindset for giving away in this site. If the leechers keeps getting free stuff and cant afford to giveaway, then they must have a very sucky life.