[SUGGESTION] Allow to delete "not received" giveaways without mods approval

The whole please delete thing, has become massive, they see one person doing it, then they think oh i can do it too, and it just snowballed.

You could add that the winner must also agree on the deletion in order to bypass the mods, through some UI checkbox or something, and perhaps add some waiting time before the deletion is actually carried out, in case the winner changes their opinion for whatever reason

There is a risk. What if I make now 10000 giveaways of GTA 5? Only, I don't intend to ever deliver them. I just do them to mess up with people and make them angry? What if a hundred users do the same? Or five hundred, just to laugh at the people thinking they are going to get GTA 5? I think it's a bad idea.

I would prefer like lordx88w said, some kind of UI checkbox, that the winner has to actually press, agreing to deletion, just to unload work for the mods.

(old time users know that every time a new user that created his account 5 minutes ago creates a new giveaway never intending to deliver, it's ALWAYS GTA 5. I don't know why)

Speaking as a moderator (TLDR), if the winner and giver both agree, whatever the reason, then I think automating the process would be ok. That's how the flow basically works today, with some additional manual steps.

That being said, I have iffy feelings on the point made in your opening statement. I feel like when I started on SG, the impression was that you were responsible for delivery your gifts. If I didn't have a known, working key, I wouldn't create a giveaway for it. In the event I wasn't sure about the key's validity, I would throw it in a drop key thread here or elsewhere. I felt like that helped build the general trustworthiness of the site as a whole. If you win something, you actually get something. That has changed over the last few years for some reason.

Now, the "allow to delete" mantra is in my opinion overly prevalent, to the point that some people add it to every giveaway, even when there's 0% chance the key won't work. As I said above, agreement from both parties to delete is all that we require, but I feel seeing that everywhere erodes the trust of knowing you'll get what you win. As a new user, I expected a game when I won, and trusted the site/user would deliver. Now, it sometimes seems like a crapshoot that maybe I might get a chance of getting something I win, even though in my experience, I think I've ever only ran into one instance of this happening.

That doesn't feel right to me, but I don't think there's much to be done about it, unless we decide to disallow deletions like this. We allow the giveaways to be deleted because real mistakes happen, keys can be unknowingly revoked, etc., but I don't really see what the difference is, other than how it appears on your profile?

There is a group "Delete giveaway if key is not working".

Automated would work (so that the giveaway winner gets a notification asking to approve the removal of the giveaway and when he agrees there is no manual (moderator) action necessary. I still think it is important that the winner has to agree to the process.

While I don't mind descriptions of GAs, or the extra step of typing out a comment that I agree when a deletion is actually required, automating the process would certainly help alleviate tickets, and free up support time for more important tickets. I don't think there's any abuse you're missing, people can already create 3 fake giveaways when they register, and they would get suspended/lose their slots. It would be the same except the fake GAs won't show up on their profile once they delete them (will show up for support still).