JohnXenoSmith's Blacklist 'Entry Removal' Discussion

I cleared and now rarely use my blacklist. I've never blacklisted someone purely on ratio. You'd have to be some of the worse scum to land on my blacklist - spamming, breaking rules on purpose, and especially being an ass to other SG users.

With that requirement, you have to blacklist more then 75% of this site.

Also with numbers like this in a poll, people who don't know math, you will not get good results.

I wish it was possible to use ratio instead of levels when creating GAs (yes, I know about sgtools, but with them I'd have to make private GAs and announce them in the forums, which is very sub-optimal).

As for the poll, I voted for the first option, as my blacklist (and whitelist) is empty, too much hassle I guess.

I don't blacklist people for their ratio. I only blacklist people that have already blacklisted me.

Don't bother with blacklists.
And considering I play pretty much everything, I enter a lot of crap (that I also win) and had a lot of fun with some of these "crap"-games and also (in part) because of that I don't have a positive ratio....

That said...If I give away a nice (even if bundled) game, I'd rather have a level 0 leecher who plays my game as a winner, than to have a level 9 generous person who won 2.000 games just for the +1 here, idled 100 of them and played just a handful.

i only blacklist based on ratio if a user owns like 2000 games on steam and/or has an inventory worth $1000+++ (yes, there are several poor™ people like that on sg).
winning just to idle or +1 libraries is also a plus.

12k RCV and taken 24k RCV in my list

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I only blacklist people who annoy me, dont say thanks after winning one of my ga's or win games without giving anything in return (thats 0 ga's made).

I'm hardly playing any of my bundle winnings myself, but I also dont expect my winners to play a bundled game. That being different for non-bundle games though.

stopped using ratio sent/won or real cv sent/won cause u can easy cheat with this xD

have ~50 ppl in blacklist, some are there for mistake, but most of them - rule breakers or forum spamers 乁( ◔ ౪◔)ㄏ

My blacklist is empty. If I've something good to give away I use sgtools to keep the leechers / rule-breakers out or give it to my whitelist.

I've got 4 people currently on my blacklist. I try not to BL because of ratio, because at the end of the day this is a giveaway site. I came here originally to win games not give, and I'm not gonna bash those who focus on/have stuck to doing that. It is the main attraction/pull of the site. :P Having said that though- it is a factor in 1 of the 4. ¯\(ツ)/¯

With the culture of awesome generosity that's formed on this forum it can be hard not to see certain people as greedy, especially if the way they present themselves and act on the forums is off-putting and/or immature.

I only blacklist people for what they say on the forums (being rude, etc.).

I don't blacklist based on ratio, but I will blacklist people who refuse to play any of their won games. Other than that, people who are rude & unpleasant, people who enter through leaked giveaway links or rule breakers tend to get the blacklist treatment. If I want to put ratio limits on something, I tend to just use SGtools. And there would not be enough spots on my blacklist to even blacklist a tiny fraction of the people with "terrible" ratio anyway.

I don't blacklist because of ratio. I mainly got people on my blacklist who break the site rules (leak links, cheat SGTools, spoil puzzles, etc.), try to CV exploit, or have expressed a clear and undeniable sympathy for things I despise (for instance either being Nazi sympathizers or anti-LBGT community), and maybe some people for being unnecessarily rude and generally douchy in the forums.
PS. I passed your blacklist test ... ... this time. dun-dun-duuun

You are missing me on that list \o
I have done one big blacklisting during my "event" with giveaways containing puzzles which if you followed could grant you place in WL for a final, unbundled, big for their time giveaways. Anyone who replied Thanks or have not followed the rules got their entry on BL. Unfortunately BL capacity wasn't big enough to contain everyone so I had to cut my plans in half and proceed to final earlier. Only way to get on BL was not reading the rules and believe me, plenty of people didn't follow even the simplest "No <thanks> allowed - you'll be blacklisted for automated responses". Anyone who have not followed the rule got their BL ticket with explanation in a reply and a link to forum thread where everything was explained again.

BL was temporary, created for the time of event only and i have cleared it right after the event but even then I have been blacklisted by more than 120 of people during these 10 days. Never again. My BL contains 5 entries now with toxic people only on it and i have no plans of expanding it further.

I try to blacklist those guys who won a lot of games but didn't bother to give away something in return, but there are just too many so I don't actively search for them. On the other hand, if you have a good ratio and/or are active in the community and/or something else that seems like a good reason, you get on my 💙list...

"alternatively bettered themself from when they got on it"

This made me laugh. Judge Dredd.

My blacklist only contains 1 person... someone who left a rude "GIVE ME MY KEY" on a GA they won... considering I'm on a vastly different timezone but sent the key within a couple of hours of it closing, it really annoyed me -_- that and they were level 0 with nothing given.

I'm only new on this site but it bothers me that people are so entitled. So now I only make GAs for level 1 plus. Doesn't take much to get to level 1 but at least you've given something.

I am not on your blacklist but I think I meet the criteria for it

I don't have anyone on my blacklist, i dont really see the point at the moment

As others have pointed out, there are other ways of preventing leechers from entering your giveaways, but I still have a small number of people on my BL because I see it as a subtle community moderation/feedback system. If you're rude, racist or a troll or something along those lines, blacklisting can be seen as a small reprimand and a mark of disaproval from other members of the community. I suppose there are few people who "don't care" about being blacklisted, even though they might claim otherwise.

If someone doesnt have the money to keep gifting games they shouldnt be prevent from participating in any GA.

Blacklist for a bad ratio? O.o You have just 1.000 blacklists but there are 1m user -.-

there are people here who don't have much money to buy lots of games like you and me. if they do what they can to give at least a little bit back and still end up with a ratio like 12:200, that's honestly absolutely fine by me. wouldn't blacklist for ratio.

I never blacklist, but I do know I was blacklisted a couple of times for no reason.