Still Learning: How to Handle Unbalanced Giveaway Ratios?

is it possible to set the giveaway level higher than my current level?

Yeah, you can set any level for your giveaways, from 0 to 10

Usually higher levels means less unbalanced ratios but even so, if you want to set a particular ratio of won to given, sgtools is your best friend for that. You can also set conditions for real value ratio, by comparing not just games but also how valuable they are (taking into account whether they were free games when given away, or bundled, or not in order to calculate it).

you can set the level requirement at whatever you want with no restriction.

if ratio is what you are really worried about you will need to use SGtools and set a ratio(likely at .5+ or 1.0) requirement so only those who meet that requirement can get the link. There are leeches at every level without exception.

there are alot of takers on this site,... and takers who don't even play the games, especially in the public GA's, you will need to get into groups/use whitelist only GA's and such to get those who are more likely to play as the only entrants. alot of the not public groups have ratio or giveaway requirements(if not both) as well so your significantly less likely to get leeches in them.

There are A LOT of bots and autojoiners on level 0 (and quite a few still on level 1) so setting a level 2 will help.
SGTools can help too. But even at higher levels you will still see some of 'em, they're everywhere!
Just remember, at level 0 there are also the real people trying to join the place, getting left out by higher level GA's, so there's that to consider as well.

I like adding people to my whitelist when I see someone doing helpful things, or being nice. And then I include a group or two that I won something from recently, or such. Them I try to toss a less interesting game to the lower-mid level public giveaways. And I mean to try to do more invite only forums giveaways. Kinda cover all the bases.

As you've mentioned you already have a thread open ranting about your giveaway and thier ratio. There was no reason to open a new thread when you could have simply just updated the OP in the other thread or posted a comment asking one of the community members a question. The slider you used to set your giveaways to level 1 can be used to set to any level you choose.

Please don't this in the future as this can be looked at as spam. No action will be taken on your account at this time, it's just a warning.