What do you think of the SG contributor system?

this is stupid, becouse they make giveways for example 1,263,64 dollars -.-

I think it's good to keep. It's a good prize for all the good people that give away games, to create giveaway for the people that give away some games...

The only change for me, it's the ammount of the contributor... No decimals, only integer value. Or/And the contributor giveaway with only multiple of 5 value. ($5, $10, $15, $20 and so on).
Sorry for my bad english.

we should keep contributor value its makes me want to make more giveaways of good games

KNIFEEEEEE

I think you should keep it. Most enter here waiting for getting games without any progress,thinking that this is some kind of a infinite birthday. With the CV, you make that people to realise that in order to get those games, they must give other ones, making them be part of SG.
And yes,I can't be the one saying these things... I would love to give a game everytime i have enough money, but i don't have the money to do it. But, if I had it, i'm sure as hell that i would create a giveaway in this page every week.

I wonder what people with high CV voted vs those with low CV or no CV at all.

I already posted this in another topic before I realized it's more fitting to put it here:
maybe change it so that if your bundle games represent less than 30% of your non-bundle value you get 100% of its retail value and only 10% for value that goes over that.
In more mathematical terms: you gave away
X non bundle games
Y bundle games
your contributor value is than
if Y<0.3X: X+Y,
if Y>0.3X: X+0.3X+(Y-0.3X)*0.1]

Solution: all 1$ bundles (so not just 1$ games only if theres a couple in 1 bundle for just 1$) will be counted as a bundle. Older giveaways from shadow ops or crazy machines will still count as non-bundle giveaways but new ones not (so no one gets upset).

its the best!

I've voted for remove it, but all in all I don't dislike it so much... I just think it doesn't fit with the current implementation / situation around... just look at how many games and bundles go on sale every day... it's very easy to farm contributor points and create a pointless system that discourage new user to donate freely (I've bought many games to give away but I'm feeling a bit oppressed by that). Just try another way to reward people that keep contributing a lot to the community, but please avoid the current system that is pointless and keep damaging the spirit of the site.

why my contributor value has been decreased to 30$?
is a joke? i hope so

I wish there was a "keep but heavily revise" option.

Ugh, so much to read...

My worry is that without the contributor status, people are going to mostly break into private groups even more than they do now.
On the flip, giving away games generously shouldn't be about the return.

People can still make others work for their giveaways via puzzles (I say that reluctantly considering I can barely ever figure out most of the nonsensical, ridiculous "puzzles/quizes" people put out there).

I'm from the USA but I'm voting for rice.

One suggestion I do have is that if someone can somehow prove that they purchased a non-bundle version of a game, they should be able to get full credit for it. If it requires a timestamped photo of yourself posing next to a screen, so be it, but it would be fair. And it shouldn't be too time consuming to respond to the requests. It's just a major bummer when you have a key you're considering giving away and then it becomes bundled. That happened to me with the unexpected THQ bundle, and while I got rid of my Darksiders and Red Faction keys before they officially became bundled, I've heard others lamenting the same issue. I think it would be a good solution, and it shouldn't be too time consuming to be viable either.

The system should be IMPROVED, not removed.

But it's easier to just remove something than change it for the better, isn't it?

1000 and first!

I totally support the idea of the CV and even when I do accept that I did give away for example "the ship" that was free for me. But I still did gave games I do actually payed for. It's allright with me and my reduced CV. I do accept I'm more a leecher rather than a gifter and even I would love to enter to every single giveaway I like. Even when sometimes I just ask to the gods why the hell that AAA game has a CV value above mine, I still realise and do accept that the gifter decided that I'm not included in his giveaway.

I do hate groups, maybe because I'm not that social and that sincereley I don't have the time to play with others rather than my friends or just because I don't have the money to buy games for that actual group. Most of the groups here don't agree with the spirit of the site. If you just want to give games away to your little group. Then make it outside of SG and with out the benefits they gave that in this case is the CV. Whats the point of a group of 20 or 30 just gifting games to each other. They just boost there CV but I don't know if they do actually make any use of those high CV since if they are constantly gifting games then maybe they don't need to enter publick giveaways since they don't need charity if you want to call it in a way. Still I do find that most of the groups seem to be unfair and not sharing the same spirit in wich SG was created (I speak as if I was here since the beginning when I'm relatively new here, but I do think that what I'm saying here is true).

We all do know that there is a lot of people that are just pumping their own CV by regifting games in their own of people and that we all know that's forbidden. This is one of the points of why some people want the CV removed and sometimes it makes me want the CV to be removed but then not everyone is like this.

I placed my vote on Keeping the system and even when I cannot provide a suggestion I think that maybe it can be modified a bit to make it better. Because CV is the reason of why many people, and I'm included here, want to give games away. I do it to have better odds and that's it. Hate me if you want but I'm being sincere here and someone needs to be like this.

If you see any mistake please take in mind I did my best knowing that English is not my first language.

Voted for remove because I wanted to be a contrarian.

Keep it!!!

Keep contributor value, but make every game that ever appeared in 'pay what you want' bundle 1 point, like SG already does with Humble Bundles. That would remove any incentive to cheat system. Also, any attempts to exploit by giving several bundle codes as 'collection' or 'pack' when the codes do not add up to whole collection on Steam (say, trying to give Binding of Isaac + WoL code as Isaac pack despite missing all the other stuff it has) should end up with a ban until cheater gives missing items, too (obviously, to prevent mistakes, any pack or bundle pickable on SG could list required contents on confirmation). Two above things would greatly simplify the moderator life, IMHO.

I voted to remove it, too^^

It has its good sides, but it causes too much trouble with devgiveawayleecher, exploiter of bundlekeys and so on trying to sneak into high contribution giveaways. Giving is about makeing people happy with a cool game, haveing fun with people in chats, events, maybe together in coop-games(I am not that much into it), and not about careing about your value...serious...

Hey, remove it. You'll see how little giveaways with actual good and expensive games there will be. Only creme de la creme groups with 10-30 people will be giving away good games for themselves. SG will become a dump for Bundle Games. Say what you want about CV but it was a great motivator for many people to actually give games away. They got some more digital numbers right next to their avatar and others got awesome games. Remove this and this site will change 180 degress. Don't take my word for it. Just see for yourself.

there should be another option that would be "keep the idea but tweak it and make it work" :P

i think that is better to have them than to remove them but they are not an important aspect of the community and they dont solve more problems than it causes.

The concept is good, but it needs to be rethinked to find a real solution

I think that I should think about it and then let you know what I think about it. Okay?
Cool. Dealio.