If you've ever whitelisted someone, why did you do it?

Personal reasons.

Friends, dear and nice people.

Activeness, helpfulness, friendliness and ratio-ness ;D

Why? So that when I have something good to give I know it's won by someone who deserves it.
Who are those deserving users? Those who don't break the rules and are - very generous and/or write interesting, insightful or helpful comments on the forum.

They are nice people.

Because they solved my puzzles or were friendly people that I often see around.

Generosity of spirit and of their wallets. Basically, those who are here to enjoy the ride, that get that this place thrives on gifting more than getting and those that make the ride fun and funny...yeah, that. Life is short - I prefer to spend it with nice people. So sue me for wanting my life to be bit better and to make other's a bit happier :-D

I just dropped by to say that I love your avatar.

i only blacklist . . i am a negative person

At first, i actually random added some members to my whitelist. :D

But then i re-built it and added the most deserving, friendly and active ones. :)

friends, people who are generous or friendly. idk, it depends. I don't actually use it for giveaways anyways, it's more so I just know who to pay attention to more on the forums :p

They'd got elbows.

i only whitelist beautiful people :3

doesn't even matter if they break the rules, they are still so cute <3

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Always personality.

I whitelist every person who's giveaway I win.

Plus other reasons.

Number of people on my Whitelist: 0

i whitelisted two people yesterday because i felt someone was rude to them and they didnt deserve that, because they were just trying to be helpful and friendly

friends and people who whitelist me. i prefer to do group giveaway rather than whitelist. too troublesome adding people in whitelist.

Generally if I whitelist someone it's for one of many reasons, such as :

• Being extremely generous with help in the forums, especially to new community members trying to get started right.
• Extreme Generosity, be it through gifting amazing AAA games or organizing events, trains, threads.
• Someone who has made me laugh or made me wish I could have a beer with them
• Regular in SGifts Group Chat
• I've won a GA from them
• They are a memeber of support or higher.
• You have admitted to a past mistake and corrected it or owned up to it and shown it was in the past.
• You've generally shown me that you are a good member of the community and not here just to collect games or rip people off.
  oh yeah and whitelist for whitelist for those devs out there...jk

That's about it.

A few reasons:

. I won that person's giveaway, no matter if it's triple-A game, or little indie game, since it's a game i wanted coz (now) i only enter games i'd enjoy.
. Someone who's made quite a few giveaway but who isn't winning a lot.
. People i enjoy reading in the forums.
. One or two steam friends.

Maybe you want to check out this thread.

My whitelist is still has few members. For now, my reasons are :

• People I know in real life
• People who deliver the game I won
• People who generously thanking me after win my game. I don't blacklist them if they don't thank me.
• People who are friendly to me
• Maybe some other reason

I've whitelisted two people in my two years on this site (i'd say that's a pretty good record: one for every year ;D). The first one said on the forums "if you whitelist me, I shall whitelist you in return," and I said "well, why the hell not?" The second was just a case of awesomeness. So much awesomeness was brimming from his posts that I had no choice but to whitelist in return.

They solved my whitelist puzzle.