How do you deter re-gifters from entering your giveaways?

Not really. I just had several winners who turned out to be serial re-gifters, so you could say that reality hit. I definitely wasn't expecting it to be so common.

Actually, it will be calling-out. He will write "winner is regifter" and by clicking "winner tab" you'll see who is winner.

Textbook calling out.

How would this deter re-gifters? I'm sure most of them already know this.

How about reporting them first before sending the game, to see if they already served a suspension for those unactived gifts, if yes, send. That's what I do at least.

I'm fine with the 7 days period. The only time I contacted a winner was when I saw he was not connected to this site for 5 days but that he was online on Steam, so I thought he'd appreciate to know that he won a game, and he was very glad I notified him about it.

I've had multiple winners who turned out to be re-gifters, but suppose it's someone with 6 re-gifted games over the course of, say, almost 2 years. His only way to redeem himself is to buy or trade for these games and activate them all, but I doubt it's even worth suggesting. I'm certainly not giving him another game to re-gift or trade.

Your premise is faulty;
It's not considered an issue/actual regifting/grounds for suspension/etc until past that week.
After that point, and after repeated suspensions for it, it becomes an issue.

Waiting a week isn't going to matter, since the issue is Yirg not wanting to give their giveaways to people who have a long-established history of exploiting and circumventing the system, and whom get slaps on the wrist from the staff for doing so, and thus keep repeating it [because they know they'll get the games anyway].

Being new, you may not have encountered it, but there are some very bad elements to the recipients here on the site

As an example as to why this is a problem:
Some people use multiple accounts, enter tons of giveaways, and then give all the keys won to their main account.
If they're guaranteed not only to get the game key, but to have their secondary accounts unsuspended, what's the risk?
(PS: And this is why you should be hesitant making public level 0 and level 1 giveaways. LOTS of problems with exploiters/etc at those two levels.
And they can get.. intensely rude when called out. Or even when not :/ )

Now, FLIP SIDE, Yirg should be careful in how he's determining regifting.
For example, SGTOOLS claims I haven't activated basically any game I've won [you can manually check and see that's not true- as the site itself tells you to do because it's a regular issue.]

But, so long as his basis isn't inaccurate, I'd have to say that it's better to take a stand, than to promote corruption, greed, scamming, disrespect for others, and so forth, when there's simply no other recourse available [except denying wins to legitimate, respectful users, in favor of users who aren't as respectable].

I personally have had some extremely unpleasant encounters here on Steamgifts, and have had to adjust my own approach to compensate.

You're right- it's not good to jump to causing trouble, to being hostile toward people, or to making leeway in rules for your own considerations.
But there are times when you need to stand up for, if not what is right, or for other people, then for your own self-respect.

So long as you have valid reasons for what you're choosing to do- and there's no gain to denying a giveaway in the first place, you actually lose a giveaway slot for doing so- I support any user's choice to do such.

Things like personal preference, bigotry, etc, are NOT valid reasons.
Respect for rules and others is; desiring to support others and remove bad elements is; and attempting to compensate for the flaws of the site staff and their system, is.
So long as the person in question caused problems first, and seems to show no signs of improving or signs of remorse, then there's a valid doubt as to if supporting them in their actions is the right approach to take.

We can argue the merits of not catering to them- but only as much as we're already arguing over the initial problem. And when both courses are in doubt, then you HAVE to go with what you believe is right, or you're diminishing yourself as a person.

Check, a very handy tool to use.

Not everyone has that kind of power though!

You can't ask for a re-roll if they already served suspension for these giveaways. You are expected to deliver the key to the winner, regardless of how many times and for how long they did it. The only alternative it to take the Not Received mark on your profile, which to me sounds like a more sensible option than giving something I paid for to someone so that they can re-gift or trade it.

I've had cases where the re-gifter is Level 4. I don't want to do only whitelist or group giveaway. I really like gifting publicly, I just want to be better protected against felons.

Not sure how caution can be applied to public giveaways. Anyone who matches the minimum level can enter, and you're expected to give them the key if they win - regardless of their conduct (as long as they've already been suspended for it).

re roll is only allowed if the non activation is from last 2 months..I have seen people with 4-5 non activated gifts from 2014..Support doesn't re roll those..

Hear, hear!

Yes, I'm afraid it may be considered as calling out. Maybe I should write something more generic. Instead of "I will just update the giveaway description with the reason + proof and move on" write something like "'I'll just move on. People who see the Not Received on my profile can check the winner over at sgtools.info/activation and learn the real reason"

My rationale is that it's possible to make it worse for them to enter than not, see this post. I may be over-rationalizing though.

I don't know about high levels, but what zelghadis wrote in the description of this giveaway hints that it might happen there to. In any case, being Level 4 it'll be a while until it would make sense for me to limit many giveaways to higher levels. At this stage I prefer to limit most to Level 1 or 2 and still want to do some Level 0 ones. I guess I'm odd.

I didn't consider the point of losing a slot. I just ran out of slot yesterday, so this can be an issue.

Not really worried about people blacklisting me for a rare Not Received. I think my ratio speaks for itself and I plan to keep it this way.

I like your idea of a "free" reroll very much. Suppose in another giveaway someone cursed me and still entered, for sure it would be a perfect opportunity to use this free reroll. If such a user won, I wouldn't have delivered the key.

While I would be against "free reroll", seeing how you might get a past regifter who learned his lesson, but seeing how OP is talking about 6 times regifter, it might be just a problem with enforcing rules (depending if he was caught earlier or not...) - 6 times regifter and still not perm-banned...

If regifter wasn't punished earlier, you'll get reroll. If he served his suspension, he's free to regift again and you can't reroll.

It will have problems with DLCs and various "collection" or "GOTY" games.

You may find this interesting: I just checked all 39 winners of my own GAs, and out of all of them I reported and blacklisted 2 for not activating, and blacklisted one additional that had a private Steam profile and a 37:1 win:gift ratio. All three of those were level 0-1.

I'm also considering blacklisting people as I see them that have ridiculously bad ratios, like 10:1 or worse. At some point, if you just can't afford to give, which is fine and understandable, you should also stop taking.

hopefully these giveaway settings are just for hardcore users.

Good point about people who haven't activated their games, maybe the due diligence should be to contact and remind. It's not an option though for re-gifters, where shortly after winning a game they create a giveaway for it.

Good point, but doesn't really affects the outcome. Recently I asked for a reroll and I was told by the support that they have 1 week to activate the game - not to mark it received. Means if they mark it received immediately after the win, they still have 1 week to activate it during the 7 days, support won't punish them. Still, your suggestion would be a good addition to clarify things.

Yes, one takeaway is that I'm switching to Level 2+ for most of my public giveaways. I'll still do Level 1 and Level 0 for games that I wish no-one to win. This isn't a guarantee of anything of course, but when left without choice I'd rather take the Not Received. Luckily in 80 giveaways I can say that this isn't a frequent issue. Or maybe I was just lucky.

As for the loss of a slot, I can now say that there's nothing for me to worry about. It appears that users get an additional slot for every 3 successful giveaways, and I run through those in a matter of a few days (at least in the current pace, I was a passive lurker for a long time).

I want to avoid the ones who "already served suspension for their infractions" but are still not good members of the community (e.g. those who don't plan to clean their sheet by buying/trading-for the games they regifted; haven't done giveaways in years).

that's the spirit, sacrifice some games to get offenders banned xD

i love it <3

They normally don't get banned. They get suspended and can then come back and continue to be bad citizens of this community.