First post to say thank you for a won game. Usually I write it in the giveaway page, but the giver blacklisted me after I won. I am writing it here because I can't access that page anymore. I prefer blacklists rather than whitelists, to exclude the rotten apples is better than give privileges to small groups, therefore I will not write against them and not against the giver, everyone has his own blacklisting reasons. I don't know if I am a rotten apple and why but... anyway, thank you for the game.
Bump is welcome.
For your time: iFC31

9 years ago

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Curious, I'm in the opposite camp, I like whitelists but dislike blacklists to the point that I have never used mine.
But I respect the opinion of the people that use them.
Also: thanks for the hidden one :P

9 years ago
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You are welcome. But if I had a whitelist you couldn't be there only because I don't know you yet. Whitelists are enormous blacklists, almost infinite, but with a nicer name. They exclude all the humanity except the chosen ones. And there are a lot of good people among the human beings that don't deserve to be excluded without reason.

9 years ago
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I guess it depends on how you use them, but yes I see your point.
I won't ever use my blacklist anyway, I like seeing it empty.

9 years ago
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Agreed. Very well put.

9 years ago
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Just because you're a good person, doesn't mean I should have to include you on giveaways I make.

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I was talking about the essence of the lists, black or white, not about what you should do, and I wrote good people to emphasize the concept . They are both faces of the same coin, they do the same thing: exclude/include.The verb doesn't matter, because they are like a wall that separate two sides, if they are including or excluding depends on your point of view. Knowing that, everyone is free to use them like they prefer. A lot of people love whitelist and hate blacklist, but they really do the same dirty work, they are the same thing. The only difference to obtain the same result with them is the quantity of work needed: is it simpler to exclude or include a determinate number of people? It is only a mathematical and mouse clicking difference. I hope I was able to make myself clear.

9 years ago
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bump

9 years ago
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If I guess correctly then I can tell you the reason. It's a gift-to-win ratio below 0.8, only few are that strict and nothing I would call a rotten apple. Once you get above it, you can contact him and get removed.

9 years ago
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Thank you for the answer. Maybe it is that. But I don't understand clearly this reason either, because in value what I gifted was more that what I won. I think it will remain a mystery.

9 years ago
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It can be just the amount of gifts/wins be taken into account, either-way you aren't very far away now.

because in value what I gifted was more that what I won

Not quite, check with www.sgtools.info

9 years ago
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Is there a way to check the value of what I won? I am curious, because I 'm trying to giving back in a balanced way.

9 years ago
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um yea I posted the link there

9 years ago
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Ok and thank you. I haven't seen the "won" part of the tool.

9 years ago
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Congrats on the win and for being big enough to post a public thank you without calling the gifter out. You've got an interesting take on blacklists, one that I'd never considered before and it's given me pause to consider my whitelisting actions.

9 years ago
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The worst thing is that unfortunately there are many whitelist also in everyday life. They exclude many people from education, work, health, human rights. The criteria can be various: friendship, color, religion, nationality. The result does not change: they only create exclusion.I believe it is right to always apply the right way of thinking, both to serious issues as to silly ones, not to lose sight of the guiding principle.

9 years ago
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Whitelisted !

9 years ago
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Closed 8 years ago by nonplusultra.