It seems Level 4 public giveaways aren't the answer. The search continues...

Invite only in the way to go. Public, of any level, tends to work out poorly, while Invite Only giveaways seem to end up much smoother, even if its Level 1 (or even 0) giveaways. Plus, it rewards people for actually going into the forums and making some kind of attempt at being part of the community.

you just have to accept some users made mistakes (unactivated gifts) and they won't try to fix them, they paid their infraction with a suspension.

and... getting suspended for not delivering games isn't worth it. if you want to follow the rules, you have to send the gifts.
just remember that if people don't change their habits and keep regifting stuff, they will end up banned. so take those gifts you send as sacrifices to ban offenders. :3

I use mmb to open in a new tab or if there is a group I want to open I right click drag with the Snap Links Lite extension (I use it on chrome but I'm sure there are others on other browsers).

Thanks for the giveaways/poll :)

Any time something is being offered, there will be people who attempt to abuse the system. Putting in barriers just slows them down, it doesn't stop them. There is no barrier that can absolutely stop all cheaters. It's in the nature of cheaters - they'll cheat to get around the barriers too. Since there's a CV system with 10 levels, they'll cheat until they're level 10.

From many generations of experience, it's now known that disincentives work far better than crackdowns, but crackdowns are far more popular. However, neither will remove the problem completely. Because CV is a type of currency here on Steamgifts. And with currency comes crime. (Rules-breaking, in this case.) Infractions which continue to multiply if left unchecked, and thus they must be policed. And with policing comes a reports system and bureaucracy in order to find those committing infractions. And with a reports system comes the need for reporting to be done by good citizens like you.

And so the cycle continues.

In a new tab, by pressing the mouse wheel button! :D (and then I close the tabs in the same way)

In a new tabs, by right-clicking the link and selecting the new tab option. holding the right-click on all the links I want to open.

I'm only level 3 yet, so too bad for me.
I never had to reroll yet. Maybe I'm just totally lucky? But I do have blacklisted nearly every winner, because not saying thank you in any way is a total nogo for me.

Is there some hidden list of extreme rules that were broken or something? 7 re-rolls in 9 giveaways is a bit much!

Or maybe you're just a leech magnet! XD

Good luck... I changed to making whitelist/group giveaways only...
Thanks for the gibways... :)

And here I thought I was the only one who did the mouse-wheel click thing. Of course, the problem then is that you end up with 12 tabs open at any one time.

depends what device I'm on :D: on my station it's usually mousewheel, on my laptop it's ctrl+click and on qandroid it's hold-till-menu-appears-and-choose-open-in-new-tab :>

I'm afraid you will never be able to avoid the kind of people you're trying to avoid. You might reduce their number, but they'll be there always.

Also yea, clicking the mouse wheel. I open pretty much all the links that way, even if I don't plan to return to the source page again. Cursed be the pages where that doesn't work because their menu system is some javascript piece of potato. Also I would like to curse pages where wheel-clicking OPENS THE LINK IN THE SAME TAB (in addition to opening a new tab) ... I mean, really, guys.. I pressed the middle button because I WANT THIS TAB TO STAY THE SAME. One offender I can think of is Rotten Tomatoes. I just disabled all scripts from their site through uMatrix, but that isn't a perfect solution.

Sorry for venting off about my clicking habits.

mouse wheel +1

You are missing an option:

In a new tab, by using a mouse gesture (holding right click, pulling the mouse down)

What from the poll shall I choose now? ;-)

If I win I always mark relieved and never regift

Ctrl for me most of the time -- I've had left/right movement on the middle mouse wheel bound to forward/back on the browser and file explorer windows for years and the wheel's gotten too finicky over time to trust it.

"puzzles are not the answer either"
that's why I'm your damn f*$%@# big fan.

due constant level drop... you may not find some people anymore but rich. :(
but I'm really interested in the answer that you're looking for...
I always get myself divided when I'm about to assign the giveaway level.

pool: since I'm on notebook, when mouse, wheel click. when pad, ctrl click.

Middle click wins again.
Maybe give it away to friends that you know will appreciate and play the game?
I think white list is the option. It's the only way I could be judge, jury, and executioner.

Middle click is my friend.

"Bad" winners taper off dramatically around level 5.

I am fortunate, however, in that lower-level giveaways are a useful tool to hand out suspensions to those who need one. It's like throwing your fishing net into the water.... D

The 9 Level 4 invite-only giveaways linked in the OP went much better than the public ones. Only 1 request for a new winner (which was denied, as the user already served suspension for the (relatively minor) infraction). 1 out of 9 is much much better than 7 out of 9, so perhaps not all hope is lost. Now let's see how my 9 whitelist giveaways end. Anything other than 0 reroll requests would be a disappointment, but let's see...

What about forum giveaways which are not level 4+? Have you tried that? I think it would be a good data point, to see how reliable lower level forum users are.

Multi-Links 3.0.0.19.1

But then you blacklisted me for whatever reason. Jerk!

I checked my recent train using sgtools (I'm a naive user so didn't do it before). None of the winners were marked as having obviously non-redeemed games (though some were marked for DLC, etc., which the site told me could be normal), except one, and that was because of a private profile.

What's your criterion for a reroll? Is it more strict than what I checked here?

I use the mouse wheel and for multiple links I have an add-on that allows to select an area by holding the right mouse button which detects and opens every link in the select area.