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If it's a temporary ban, maybe.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, unless till like a week after a bundle comes out and when the bundle is being sold ?

It's a bigger burden for the admin to keep up with all the bundles regularly, there are so many of them.

You see someone making huge amount of bundle key giveaway - you do report. The rest is on us.
But please do not report for few games that might have been in a bundle. We had Potato sack, Cube pack, 50% discount for all indie games, etc., which are legitimate. Not everyone who have given away some inde games is an abuser.

What does it matter whether the game came from a bundle or not?

While the intention of this idea is good, I can guarantee that people will find a way to go around this.
They already did it with the IronClads collection.

I don't care how did they get these games if I really want to win them.

No please don't

They will just wait and then make them if we put a limited time ban on certain games.

Can't you write a script to scan the steam inventory? And only be able to put up games that you actually have in your inventory.

I disagree.

Stupid suggestion IMO, nuff said.

Bad idea. The current rules already prevent people from abusing bundles for lots of points.

Anyway, you'd just end up with people spamming Steamgifts with giftable bundles a month after the end of the event, instead of right after.

Most of the suggestions i see are posted by you. You should just add a moderator and just tell them.

Than also ban free mass gained keys like lucid and feari solitaire.

Do those giveaway kill you? just deal with it, some people just want the game and let them have it then ._.

No.

This again...

that is totally bullshit . u can ban the gifters who spend 1000 usd too .. for abusin the idea to contribute

Or maybe we should email the bundle-er company and ask them to bundle the key like humblebundle. It's better for them I think.

TELL ME MORE!

people are giving away games, and you are bitching about it. rofl

This is quite possibly the stupidest solution to the problem I've seen someone suggest.
May I remind you, this site is about GIVING not RECEIVING. The entire Contributor Rank feature completely derails this. However, I'm inclined to agree that it is a good idea to have giveaways that are specifically for Contributors. The way that it's executed is entirely wrong in my opinion.
I don't believe users should be able to choose how much people have to give away to participate in their giveaways. There are some times where I legitimately get angry because someone took the cheapest, worst possible game the could get their hands on, and then only let people who'd given a ridiculous amount of stuff away get in.
I also believe that Contributor giveaways shouldn't be public by default. I believe that they should be hidden from you until you can enter them. Otherwise, you feel pressured that you HAVE to give away a lot of games or else you're not worthy of using the site. This site's philosophy shouldn't be "Come give away some games then maybe you'll win one." It should be "Come try and win some games, and if you can, try to give back to the community aswell!"

The only real solution to the "Bundle Game Problem" in my mind is to simply say that unless the giveaway creator can provide proof that the single game they're giving away is not from a bundle, then it will not contribute to their contributor total. However, I believe that support should be added for bundles like the Groupees Bundles that just give you separate keys for all the games. You could also add a detail to the giveaway creation form where you could enter the key for the game(s) you're giving away and it would be an instant delivery just like the Faerie Solitaire giveaway that everyone won.
Now, before you start saying "But stickman, there isn't nearly enough staff to monitor all these giveaways and ask for proof for them to go ahead!" Well, I see two possible answers to this. One, you could simply completely ignore group/private giveaways. Those don't really affect the community as a whole anyway. And Two, you could simply have any game that was in a bundle in the past 6 months red flagged and put "On Hold" until the staff can verify it's not from a bundle. You should also give the creators a choice while creating the giveaways to request the verification. If they don't, then it will by default not add to their contributed amount.

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Now, back to entering gratuitous amounts of Nuclear Dawn giveaways. That game looks awesome.