Problem with <Pandora SG> group

I'm not familiar with this group specifically, but many have ratio rules. Either win or CV ratio. If a lot of your GAs were recently reduced in value, that would put you into the negative. Generally you'd be given an opportunity to correct this CV ratio, but since you got into an argument about it, obviously that didn't happen. As for leaders and rules, most won't kick themselves out of a group. Rules for thee.

Without seeing your group stats it is hard to judge.

If a group's creator does not follow the rules of their own group, either the members care enough and leave the group, or the members don't care. Nothing to be done from outside the group.

My notes say, that you tried to sneak into Unlucky7 1.5 months ago, having 15 sent and 92 won. To me that is a clear sign that you either do not care to much for the rules of a group or that you did not understand them. Taking that into account, I am not surprised that another group kicked you.

I dont know your stats on this group and can not check after you were already kicked. But as far I remember this group has rules about ratio and you need to do 1 GA over 10p (nor free) per month. General ratio on SG does not matter in this regard. I guess your actions was against these rules but I dont know that and this should be rather discused with him. And if even assuming you have been treated unfairly from my experience it is often better to move on (I had one ugly situation on discord with people active also on SG but situation was not related with SG) where one of owners spread total lies and false accusations (at first i though it was just misunderstanding but on the end I think it was on purpose for unknown reasons) and on the end it was just better to leave and move on and not lose time and nerves :). And this is my advice for you no matter if you are right or not.

Sounds like a win for you as they can't enter your giveaways as well now. Or you would want buy games to people like that?

Almost half your Steam library is from Steam Gifts wins. That alone would be a red flag in my opinion.

Pretty sure threads publicly calling out members on SG aren't allowed. It seems like ignoring rules or attempting to skirt them (by stocking up on penny games for g/a's to try to keep your ratios in check and waiting to mark games as received to control ratios, for example) might be the reason you were kicked from that group.

It's not like anyone here can solve your dispute anyway.

Just move on and take some time to catch up on your backlog.

We only have limited information, so why you were kicked is something only PatchmaN can definitely say. I'll go with a few things I've noticed:

• Is it possible you missed some monthlies? Seems a bit harsh to be kicked for that though if everything else is okay so I doubt that was the reason.
• You pointed out that he doesn't follow his own rules, your screenshots seem to be referring to his value difference as his gift difference is within the rules. A lot of people in a lot of groups have the same problem because of extreme price swings recently, I think this mainly affected asset flips. So I assume there's some leniency there for people to fix this.
• You said your W/L is 200/100 which is precisely 0.50, which is the group's minimum ratio. Is it possible you were on/below that ratio for an extended period of time?
• I also noticed that you purposefully avoided 'marking received' because of ratio reasons. So my best guess is that a combination of this and the previous point were the reasons you were kicked. But again, I work with limited information so nothing definite.
• About being called out publicly: His post is meant for group members to be made aware that a non-group member might be still be in one of their giveaways. This is an effective method to reach all members.

and also about defaming someone publicly

Oh, the irony!

When I used to see those groups it always felt to me like a group of friends got together to make it to leech from others and since they are in charge, they make the rules and no one can call them out for their ratios.

Bottom line is groups are privately operated on SG and group mods can create rules and enforce them as they wish.
It's your right not to like it but that still doesn't change the fact they can kick you out.
Patchman is a fair mod so I'm sure we're only getting a teeny tiny side of the story but even so I'd probably have kicked you too if I was Patch.
Regardless, you are not big on rules, it seems and you should know calling out users in threads for whatever reasons can lead to suspension so you probably should delete the thread or remove screenshots and mentions of the user and group.
In any case, I'm sure you will find another group to peddle the shovelware.

Good luck with that.

You know, I am a relatively new member of the SteamGifts community and also joined the <Pandora SG> group.
The fact that the administrator of the group himself has a controversial rating is not critical for me, since his main task is the organizational work of running the group.
However, I have also noticed among older members of the community an unhealthy tendency to judge and belittle newcomers. They count how many games you had on your account, how many hands you created, what games you give away, whether you play the games you won (as if I can’t put the game aside in order to go through it in a month or 2 when I have free time ) a little more and they will try to measure your head with a caliper to make sure that you are worthy to take part in the distribution.
It seemed to me that this platform allows us to find owners for our extra keys and perhaps accidentally receive a key from some random game.
But this does not mean that you need to condemn the entire community as a whole because of 100-200 controversial individuals. Thousands of ordinary normal people on this site will be happy to both take part in your giveaway and let you take part in theirs! I especially remember the New Year's community atmosphere!

So, if you have a conflict with the group administrator, then don’t worry and create your own group with blackjack and girls!

And if you don’t have time for this, then just give people games without a group. In any case, the winners will be grateful to you and sooner or later they will beat your game and get a lot of emotions.

Best wishes!

typical pebcak