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Do as you want as long as your key/gift is valid

make them whatever you want, lv0-1-10, whitelist, group, etc. there's no rule about it.

It's a matter of your preference actually :p You can be lvl 1 and make lvl 10 giveaway (for high level appreciation) or whatever the reason that you want. As long as you have that warm feeling in your stomach after creating the gibs, I consider that is good enough :3

P/s: For me, I usually do one level below me c:

There is no actual rules on giveaway, but I think you cannot make a LVL 1 only (or you probably can in a forum) since LVL 2-10 would be able to enter them and I'm not sure how support will react on a specific LVL giveaway

Theres no rules, just follow your heart :)

As a general rule, the higher the level, the lower the rate of rule-breakers and ungrateful winners.
As far as the precise levels you decide to use, that's something you'll need to feel out on your own- some users are fine giving even rare/expensive giveaways at level 1+, others start their giveaways at 4+, and others prefer higher levels.

I'll say this, however- you may want to be careful giving any game you care about out at levels 0 - 2, at least to start with.
Once you get a feel for things, you can decide if you prefer giving open-handed chances to all users, or if you prefer seeing your giveaways targeted toward levels where there's a lower chance of stress for you.

Of course, there's never any guarantees ( especially with public giveaways ) and you'll get bad eggs at any level.
Especially 0 and 1, which has a reputation for being filled with multi-accounting, extreme leeching/bot-use, etc. (And extremely rude and entitled users, in my experience.) (Level 0 is especially ill-advised. :X)
Kinda stings to see your game go to someone who doesn't care about it, or who ends up suspended for their behavior shortly thereafter. ( Forum giveaways help mitigate a lot of the issues, but then you have to deal with individuals that leak the giveaway- even if you haven't used an SGTools filter to restrict your giveaway, you're still getting your game potentially going to the same exploitative crowd you're attempting to avoid. Using even an empty (no-restriction) SGTools filter seems to help avoid that sort of thing, however, so that's something you may want to consider. )

(Please always check your winners for Non-Activations and Multi-wins on SGTools.info! If they've any infractions, you can request a reroll, which'll be granted if they haven't yet been suspended for the infraction, or if they've been suspended within the past month. Repeated suspensions can lead to them being permanently suspended.) ( Likewise, always check their steam library for if they already own the game! )

Of course, if you're feel especially magnanimous, keeping the lower levels active with giveaways does presumably help keep the site alive, enticing new members to join. Likewise, posting giveaways at a level near your own current level works well for spreading giveaways early on, and for developing an idea of the different user groups you get at each user level.

Certainly, the best guideline will be your own experience with the site, as you develop it. :)

idk, dude, like, we're all just, like, here.

I never made a level restricted giveaway.

I recomend you to make them minimum lvl 2+. Why? Because level 0 and 1 are full of cheaters, multiaccounts, and so on. So.. as Sooth said, the higher you make them, the most fairly ppl will enter. When I noticed that I started making them for lvl 3-4 (some for lvl 5 too)

I just randomly choose level when I do public GAs, altough I tend to do them lvl1+ nowadays, nice if the winner gave away at least 1 game ^^
My best advice is not to be too tempted to reach them high levels, I joined in December and saw all these great high level gibs... I wanted to be there and now all my summer sale savings are gone + a little extra XD

Just like my mouse will ride xD sometimes I create lvl 0 to everyone to have a chance, sometimes I want to show my appreciation with lvl 6 or 7 ga, sometimes on private I do on almost all levels

I almost never going to make a lv limitation more than my level. But only because of feeling. XD

Do Bad Rat's giveaway :P that's what true steamgifter does
Also, You may set level, group requirements etc. to whatever You want, no limitations!

Do exactly what you want -- nothing more, nothing less -- when making your giveaways. Decide what feels right for you and go with it. Also, welcome to SG. :)

Well, the good news is that you can do pretty much what you want. There are tons of people doing puzzles/SGTools only giveaways, there are plenty in the mid-level range (2-6), and despite what the forums feel like, about two-thirds of the giveaways created are for level 0, so even they are covered plenty enough.
You can do flash giveaways (1-3 hour length), one-month-long ones, trains (linking private giveaways together with the links in their description fields), multi-key drops, 50+ multi-key drops (I wouldn't advise though, the botting is real there)… whichever you choose, there will be a few dozen to few thousand people doing the same, so you won't feel alone.

I started giving away around my own level, but then I saw a giveaway description by someone who explained why he liked giving away throughout all levels and asked people to do so, too (unfortunately, I don't remember his name). For me, he was very convincing. He argued along the line that there have to be interesting giveaways for all levels to keep people motivated to give away and gain levels. So there should be a reward for high levels, but there should be interesting games for low levels as well.
Since I read that, I started mixing levels more, and I have done giveaways from 0 to 10. Most of the time, I still give away around my level. But I try to mix it up more than I did before.

I suggest doing higher level ones. It reduces chance for winner to be some random troll.

I tend to do GA level below mine lately

Better make level 0 giveaways. It's nicer to give the option to everyone to win your giveaways. But well, you can do anything you want actually. xD

All my giveaways are for level 0. It's the decision of each one.

Maybe it is my own fault, but I do not see an actual link to SGTools, so: http://www.sgtools.info
One of the simplest things you can find there is your "progress", http://www.sgtools.info/sent/Nsan/newestfirst
(If you wonder what "bundled" means: games which have reached 95% discount anywhere in the world compared to US Steam Store base price, provide 15% of their base price as contribution value - there is a list for tracking those games: https://www.steamgifts.com/bundle-games)

It's more like for whom you want to give away the games, therefore it's with what you feel comfortable.
But it's not like there's that much of a difference between people who regifted of have multiple wins between level 0 and level 5 people, just that the higher the level was, the higher was the chance that they already served it.

You can do whatever you want with your giveaways. I start with level 1 simply because I was trying to avoid the majority of bots & total mooches.

I used to give away paid games on scrap.tf to people who could show they actually played games so they could get off Steam Level 0 before Steam changed their policy & scrap.tf started banking games.

I've seen other sites run bot traps and catch a ridiculous number of them.