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That sounds like an excellent idea!

+1 for the potato event, but I like your idea too :)

Excellent idea, I just had to invite people to a private group and make a group only GA just for this one time, so a function like this would be great. But do you have any idea how hard it is to make such a button? >:E (Hey, your words, not mine!)

The idea is neat, though a one-time Steam group achieves pretty much the same. Only 2 differences: You invite on Steam and members would have to sync on SG.

Your poll is awesome though. :D

Interesting idea in the forums .... been awhile .

Have my upvoat .

How would you avoid a person you sent the link to sharing that link with someone else? I'm not sure on how you make it work? It's a good idea though if it can work.

Like the idea! Would be a really cool addition to SG :)

Great idea! But I don't see how the link can't be leaked. Although they could make a check to see who you all invited that way (but if you have a link to it somewhere else, it breaks that system).

It sounds like a neat idea, but I have a feeling it would be too much for our poor little server to handle.

The way I see it, it would require each of these giveaway to individually track who may or who may not enter the giveaway, and all that data would take up lots of resources. For example, giveaway 1 needs to remember that user 1, 2, and 4 may enter. Then on giveaway 2, it needs to remember that user 1, 3, 5 and 6 may enter, and the same thing applies with every giveaway on Steamgifts using this system, as opposed to Group or whitelist giveaways which uses one, big list for each category individually (and since groups and whitelist are basically working the same way, the whitelist is probably considered a "group" by the system).

Now, I don't know shit about servers and data and whatever. Can anyone who is knowledgeable about this topic confirm or deny my assessment?

I think this is a great idea! :D
It would get rid of the need to create temporary groups on Steam for a one-time set of GAs.

YES!!!

Support :)

I liked this suggestion. Bump.

NEEDS MORE BUMP

This is one of the best ideas I read on this forum. Two thumbs up from me!

If I keep bumping, it will happen, right? Right?

Actually this would be nice - adding someone on Steam, or leaving a message on an old giveaway does the job, but not really the best way. It could be just a button like black/whitelist, and an option to share a *private* giveaway's link with the user, with no personalized message (This way it couldn't be used to harass/spam people)

Bump for this nice idea !

It really is a fantastic idea. I currently use my whitelist for this, because using Steam groups is too much of a hassle (people have to sync their accounts, so the invite isn't immediate), but the biggest downside is that I can't have more than one giveaways running at the same time, because people who aren't supposed to enter the other one will do.

Brillant idea! Seriously, one of the best I've read under suggestions. Have a bump!

Great idea, bump!

Have another bump!

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