2 hours = "ages"? Really?
Some people aren't on the computer 24/7, and you can't control what times the giveaways you're entering end at. Nobody enters giveaways thinking "Oh, this ends at 4AM, I better be up then on the one-in-thousands chance I win it!"
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Its ages when I'm frozen out of giving more, yeah. Limits like that are inane and pointless. If it takes a week before I can post more, then I'm not likely to do any more giveaways.
Maybe just randomly give things to redditors or randoms on SPUF.
That, and my timers were only two hours. If they were around to enter, they should be around to stop holding me up.
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I know how you feel! but yea, be patient. :P I had to add a winner who was online, but didn't accept my request. lol
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Based on your current feedback score, you're able to create up to 182 additional gifts. +9 that are on going, so 191
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No, there's definitely a point. When you give games away and prove that you aren't just trying to scam people and that you actually know how the site works, you earn more giveaway slots, it seems reasonable to me. I've never heard of someone angry because they can't give people free things, who are you, menopausal Santa?
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No. Wrong. Impossible to "scam" someone here. A scam would require something FROM the winner. Considering you lose nothing to enter, you can't be scammed.
So being beholden to someone's random email whims isn't reasonable.
Good to know the community here is represented by rude jerks that resort to juvenile name calling though.
Makes it easy to see who won't be getting anything from me lol.
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Having time is a good thing here, you can check up the winners. Maybe it's only a dummy account to enter giveaways, maybe that guy didn't redeem earlier wins and traded them away.
Three giveaways for a new guy are enough, we have some problems with people who don't understand how the site works, thinking they can get any game they want by creating a giveaway. This stops the insane flood of fake giveaways we could face if it wasn't there (well, at least now they can delete own giveaways when they realise their mistake, in the past support had to deal with it and they are busy anyway).
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I'm sorry to bring up these facts but in my opinion anyone new should know them, if someone informed me about it in the past, I think the outcome of my first three giveaways would be different. I just stick to creating private giveaways/group giveaways for nice people I've met here. Or dicks but dicks that are likeable ;).
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yeah, there are a lot of jerks on steamgifts unfortunately. a lot. And the "old guard" doesnt really like any new people, and they are quick to jump down their throats, whether it be on forums, in giveaways or groups or wherever.
and moderation is barely there, except for the ones that actively TROLL (and i do mean troll) the steamgifts members.
sorry for all the dbags, you just wanted to get on with things. i agree that the rules are there in place for a reason, but its kind of a flawed system that allows a brand new fake account create 60dollar and up giveaways that won't be honored, but doesnt allow someone who will honor their giveaway to do more. whattya gonna do...
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What's the old guard?
Actually, I have more questions about your post but I'm curious as to who the old guard is, considering I don't really see as much elitism around here now.
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After reading the thread so far, I have two comments: the rules specify that winners have 1 week to claim their prize and they also specify the giveaway-creation-limit thing. No need to act surprised, and honestly someone not being at their computer for 8+ hours shouldn't be a surprise either (sometimes people sleep).
Second comment is that: yes it is great that you are giving out games and people (the good ones) really do appreciate your generosity. But you have to acknowledge the rules of the site and that there is a reason for them. If you don't like the rules you don't have to give games here and we'll be sad, but nobody's going to beg you to give games out here or go sobbing to sleep if you don't. "threatening" to take your games elsewhere makes you sound like a petulant 12 year old, who is mad that he can't get everything he wants exactly the way he wants. Go ahead and go elsewhere, there's no reason to post about it as if to make people beg you to stay or to get the rules changed to accommodate your personal wishes
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They were 2 hour giveaways, with people present to enter, and in fact, all three online when the giveaways ended. Thus, irritation at my time being so badly wasted.
Also, no, the rules don't have a reason. To claim that it keeps people from making giveaways for games they don't have is absurd, considering nothing is stopping anyone from making dummy accounts and using those to list hundreds of fake giveaways.
The system only prevents actual giveaways, thus, it's moronic.
It's not a threat. I'm done. I had a game prepped to go, and more that I was planning on purchasing just to hand out. Instead, people on Reddit get them.
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Online =/= actually present at the computer, but that is irrelevant at this point.
I'm sorry, if you knew how the site actually worked and the rules in place, maybe you would comprehend their function. What's stopping them from making dummy accounts and listing hundreds of fake giveaways? How about the fact that to create an account you need $100 dollars worth of games tied to your Steam account? We routinely get people joining this site and thinking that the system magically creates games for them, and they make giveaways thinking that either A) the site will provide the game to the winner, or B) the site will give the creator free games. Having an initial limit serves to curb the amount of these giveaways before the users in question are dealt with.
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...how was your time wasted exactly? They didn't respond immediately and then.... you go do something else and check if they've responded tomorrow. I figure that's maybe 10 minutes of actual time you've wasted (spent trying to contact the winners), tops. And secondly, you really need to calm the fuck down. Sometimes people log in from their mobile devices but can't accept a steam invite or havent checked their email. Sometimes people enter a giveaway and leave the computer running and then go to sleep (I used to leave my PC going 24x7). You don't know their situations and there's really no reason to be in such a rush. Make a giveaway tomorrow if they've accepted if you want. Why does it need to be done right at this instant? Just take a breath and slowly release it.
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*in response to your edit
dummy accounts require $100 worth of games on them to join the site. So if someone REALLY wants to drop hundreds of dollars to troll us, I suppose you've got a point. However this seems unlikely. And since you clearly haven't been around for a while, you wouldn't know that before this rule was in place we DID see a lot of fake giveaways of 100 copies of Skyrim or some such nonsense. But like I said: stop threatening to go elsewhere with your gifts... just go elsewhere with your gifts. It makes you sound annoying
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Not quite. Someone can watch a cartoon from Japan without being a weeaboo. It takes a special, obsessive, use-animu-for-every-icon-and-username-and-pretend-they're-japanese devotion for me to dislike them.
You know, like you.
Same thing with hipsters. Someone can wear tight jeans, doesn't mean I'll hate them. They have to fall under the probably-haven't-heard-of-it-instagram-obsessive for me to level hipster hate at them.
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Maybe you should take your giveaways somewhere else if you are going to be like that.
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Dude, calm down. People have lives, give them like 3 days.
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It hasn't even been half a day since your oldest giveaway ended. Sure, your winners haven't accepted your generosity yet, but it's reasonable to think they entered the giveaway, and they're all sleeping now. I know I enter some giveaways just before going to bed, and with the time differences because this is the internet, it would take a little while. Or maybe they just went to work. That takes quite a few hours too.
I also know I don't check my email all that often. Maybe once a day. But I always check my email when I win a giveaway, but that's probably because I'm on SteamGifts a lot more often than the average user that I actually notice within a small amount of time that I've won something.
Besides, there's no reason for you to wait for the winners to accept their winnings. Just go do something else. They'll accept it eventually, no need for rush. If you really have a lot you want to be giving away, then there's no point in giving it all away all at once right? Where's the rush?
As for 3 giveaways being the limit for new gifters, I absolutely agree with this ruling. I actually think it should be lower, but then that would be just punishing people who know how to read before trying. So many people sign up on this site and don't realize what they're doing when they create a giveaway, it's ridiculous. The rules are here because of what people have done in the past, so as to prevent it happening in the future. I'm glad you know how this site works, at least its purpose anyways, but you've gotta understand that a lot of others don't.
The system prevents annoyances and hindrances to both the users of this site and to the support team working away to deal with all the tickets being sent in because of the large amount of fake giveaways and people who don't understand how the site works. If the system wasn't there, this site would be a huge mess, and nigh unusable. Hope you'll come to understand this as you spend more time on the site.
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Thanks halnco, I think that covered everything. Closing this one down.
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That every single person who won my giveaways is asleep/offline/dead/not much for checking email.
I want to give away some more free crap, and now I'm stuck. What a way to start out, huh? First three giveaways, and I'm frozen until they wake up.
Shame. Had a good one in the pipe for the next giveaway, too.
Is this a regular occurrence here? The whole "winners taking ages to actually accept gifts" thing, that is. Too bad the limit for new folk isn't higher, say five. Three seems too arbitrarily low to me. Oh well.
I'll post a big fat $50 item when one of those people finally accepts their winnings.
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