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Do you like SGT cheaters? Neither do we. As you might know, we're taking seriously every attempt of exploiting SGT and your generosity, so we decided to work actively against people who can't play fair by joining SGT-protected giveaways they're not allowed to.

Process is quite simple:

• Check invalid entries in your selected SGT-powered giveaways.
• If you spot any invalid entries, make sure that all of them are indeed invalid (e.g. you didn't give your friend link to your giveaway, so he's now on the list)
• If that's the case, report SGT giveawayID (such as c182af68-e883-11e5-8e50-04019cc0dc01) either here or as a comment in one of my older giveaways, so I can get a notification about that (preferably here, unless you have a strong reason)
• If you have any valid entries which are reported as invalid (such as your friend joining giveaway by your permission), make sure to include that info so we won't ban innocent people accidentally.
• SGT staff will review the case and issue permaban for all SGT giveaways to every invalid entry
• You will get notified after ban is done

Please make sure to include proper description in your SGT-protected giveaways, such as the one below:

This is a SGTools protected giveaway. If you got here without the verification via SGTools, please refrain from entering. Joining via leaked URLs is against SG and SGT services, and might lead to appropriate consequences.

This process is NOT automatic because we can't know if invalid entry is indeed invalid and obtained through leaked link, OR valid by your permission. That's why we ask you to report giveaways with invalid entries, after you've reviewed that those people are indeed cheaters.

Remember about no calling out rule on SG - don't report people, report SGT giveaways with invalid entries. Invalid entries are known only to you (and us - SGT staff). If you need a confirmation of people that have been banned by the system, let me know and I can send that info to you privately (e.g. on your steam comments wall).

Appeals to bans are reviewed by KnSYS in SGT general thread, please use this thread only for reports and questions/issues/discussion related to reporting system. Second thread was created in order to avoid polluting the main thread with reports, as it should stay informative and connected with discussion about SGT in general. Thanks!

In order to save us some work, please report only giveaways with unique invalid entries. Example: If one user cheated in all your 5 SGT giveaways, it's enough to post only one giveaway as a "report" of that user.

FAQ

Q: Are bans really permanent?
A: Bans are permanent and they're issued to people who try to bypass the system. They can however be lifted if they were given accidentally, and the affected user is in fact innocent, that's the only case, as user was banned by a mistake, and mistakes happen.

Q: Is the list of banned people available?
A: It's not yet decided if we want to make that info public or not.

Q: What's the point of that if cheaters were in fact bypassing the SGT?
A: Firstly, cheater will never ever be able to pass any SGT-protected giveaway by himself anymore. Secondly - with every cheater banned from the system, the odds of catching and banning the guy who committed the leak increase as well.

Q: What about potential abuse? I might want to send link to the guy just to see him banned
A: Decision whether to ban the suspected cheater or not is always upon SGT staff. There is no automatic system that bans everyone based on reports sent by user - every case is reviewed. If it turns out that somebody tried to abuse the report center by such action, he will get banned instead, and innocent user will be unbanned.

Q: What if invalid entry is a part of train powered by SGT?
A: Simply include both SGT giveawayID, and in addition to that - SG giveawayID that includes invalid entries (if it's different than the one behind SGT giveawayID)