Competency Test

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

That would scare me away from this site. I never did pass English class back in school.

Sarcasm aside, what do you think about a simple quiz? It wouldn't have to be terribly long. You have to read over the FAQ and answer a few questions.

While the FAQ might not be as easily accessible as some users would want, it is not all that hard to find and will help you will all you need to traverse this wonderful website. Here I will outline some of the more commonly misunderstood or broken rules.

To understand what it is to gift on steamgifts.com we must first understands its core rules and etiquette. Creating a giveaway and indeed entering into a giveaway you enter into a contract of sorts with SG that you abide by the rules concerning the delivery of goods in a timely fashion and activation of the goods onto the account in question. As the creator of a giveaway upon ending of the giveaway you have 7 days to deliver the game to the winning user and they themselves have the same 7 days to complete their end of the gifting process, insomuch as you must redeem the game on the account you entered with, and may not trade it to others. As the winner, creating topics in the forum complaining about how you have not received the game before the seven days are up will lead to mockery and flaming, however, creating a topic after the seven days are up will lead to similar mockery and flaming because the forum is not used to receive support from the mods or admin.

When creating a giveaway bear in mind that you must not misrepresent the title being given away, Misrepresentation can come in the form of giving away beta keys or guest passes under the guise of the full game, thus mislabelling the game in such a way that the game being given away does not represent the end product (for example, creating a giveaway for MNC but the product you are giving away is SMNC). Aside from guest passes and beta keys, creation of giveaways for exploited CD-keys are also against the rules, these are kept updated as often as possible. This does not mean that you cannot giveaway the games on the exploited list, but more that unless the game is a giftable steam copy, the key is likely to be considered exploited. One other rules to keep in mind when creating a giveaway is the submission of CD-keys that require VPN activation or regional restricted games, something which violated the Steam TOS if trying to activate outside of the intended region.

When trying to giveaway a game please note you cannot gift games from your Steam library. They are permanently attached to your account and not giftable. So how do you get a game on Steam that you can giveaway? When you purchase a new game, you can either Purchase for yourself, or purchase as a gift. "Purchase as a gift" gives you options to either send it immediately, or store it in your inventory to send later. Once safely stored in your inventory you are set to create a giveaway and can even set your inventory to public viewing to ease the minds of the users that your giveaway is indeed genuine.

I simple multiple choice quiz of ~6 questions (applicable only the first time attempting to post a giveaway) would probably cut down on the "oh no, I didn't realize I was to giveaway game" BS we have seen time to time.

A one time quiz could help a bit, but, the "oh no what am i doing i am not good with steamgifts" giveaways are hilarious and I would miss them.

I don't think we have. Most of us probably aren't pirates, and don't want to do thing pirates do.

Yeah I thought of that (a need for multiple languages)
This quiz wouldn't be completely obscure and random as many of those private quizzes are. This will only pertain to the information provided in the FAQ to ensure that the test-taker understands the rules.

Still haven't won Nuclear Dawn, and I've been trying pretty hard. So I say keep those "spam" gifts coming.

It's only a one-time test for newcomers of SG, so I'd be reluctant to limit the questions. Really, just ask the questions that would pertain to the issues (i.e. what you just said about fake giveaways for beta keys, people thinking it's their wishlist, etc). I doubt it would be more than 15, but I haven't taken the time to make a full list of questions. I just wanted to get this idea out there.

Exactly the point.

First entry, too, so they understand they need to redeem the game on their account and not regift it and also mark the gift as received.

Pretty detailed I must say :P

This, please.

Another sample question:

You do realise that you have to give someone a copy of the game when you make a giveaway, right? a) Yes, b) No

Maybe, but at least then "they" won't be able to claim that they didn't know. And while simple ignorance is no excuse, actually knowing the rules and then ignoring them for your own means is worthy of a MUCH bigger banhammer, IMO.

Yes, but this being the case, an instant ban would be fully and unarguably justified.

80-90% would be better.

I strongly disagree. The FAQ is not comprised of abstract ideas or difficult arithmetic. It is a very simple stating of the terms of this site in an effort to maintain fairness and order in the spirit of selfless generosity.
To have the answers clearly spelled out in front of you on one tab and the questions asking if you read and understand the rules on another tab is surely a simple test that anyone should be able to pass with 100% accuracy.
60%? I'm sorry, but I find that a ridiculous percentage (60% being the absolute bottom of spectrum of passing percentages of any grading scale I've ever used).

Why?

Why?