Current Whitelist count: 284 :)

Important update June 2024

Hello there.
My views on this changed, so I will post an update. All these criteria have just one goal: To find active members of SG who don't cheat, don't leech, don't game the system, do play fair and are contributing to this site with giving away more then they win.

  • I am only considering "Real CV", not the "normal" CV SG shows. You can find your own numbers via SGTools.
  • I am looking to add members whose Real CV ratio is over 1:1. The higher your real CV sent is in contrast to your real CV won, the more likely it is for me to add you. That means: Someone with a 2:1 sent:won ratio is more likely to be added than someone with a 1.1:1 ratio.
  • If you have multiple or non-activated wins, you're out. Except when I can clearly see that those are really old and you learned from your mistakes.
  • I am not considering leechers.
  • I am not considering members with a ratio lower than 1:1 in real CV.
  • I am not considering you if you only give in small groups with the intention of CV farming (kinda hard for me to find out, but I am trying).
  • I am not considering you if I can clearly see that you exploited the system with the intention of CV farming (giving away many copies of $1 bundles that result in a high CV value, giving away many copies of price glitches that can only be bought in a certain country but give full CV, giving away overpriced games and so on). If you do "normal" giveaways and give 1 or 2 copies of those bundles away, it's all good in my book. As long as the other giveaways are the majority by far.
  • If you're in a circle jerk group and have to do GAs for that tiny group once a month, I will let it slide if you also do a lot of public or event GAs in that month. If most of your GAs are for circle jerk groups, you will not be considered and active members will get kicked from the WL.
  • Members have to be active. If you didn't do a giveaway in the last 12 months, you're out. The only exception to this is, if you also did not enter any giveaways in that timeframe. The more recent your giveaways are, the better.
  • If you're only doing 1 or 2 giveaways per month, you will most likely not be considered.
  • If you're complaining and complaining and making drama why I added X but not added you, then you are not who I am looking for.
  • If you're VAC banned, you're making it hard for me to add you. I will look at it on a case by case basis.
  • If you're blacklisted, you're blacklisted for a reason. No, I will not remove you. You don't have to ask in this thread. You don't have to create drama.
  • You should have done some public giveaways since your registration date. I know that this may sound ridiculous coming from me at a time where I stopped doing public giveaways. But until I changed the way I am giving away my games, I only did public giveaways. I am looking for something similar within you. So if I only see private giveaways due to trains or puzzles and such, please provide a link to the corresponding thread in the forum. Otherwise I have no way to check if those privates weren't "circle jerks".
  • If you're only giving away region restricted games and are winning mostly ROW games, you probably will not be considered.
  • Oh, one more thing: You don't have to add me to your WL in return. If you want to, that's completely up to you. But you don't have to. I am not looking for a 1:1 whitelist exchange of some sorts.

Aaaaaaand that's it! Kinda easy to get on my Whitelist, isn't it? ;)

7 years ago*

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Hi! My real CV ratio is not the greatest (1.36 if I'm looking at the right place) and maybe half of my recent GAs were to a closed group, but I've since left that group and I'll focus my future GAs into either PAGYWOSG, SG Magazine or whitelist. Used to gift a lot to SG Pillars but I got kicked out of the group once my ratio fell below 2, and hence stopped gifting there. If you're only looking for extremely prolific gifters I might not be your guys, but still throwing my name for consideration :)

8 months ago
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Hi. I know you and have already looked at you in the past. While I really appreciate you whitelisting me, I am afraid I can not return the favor. For my personal taste, I want to see more public giveaways, either in the past, now or in the future. Percentagewise, you even have won more public giveaways than you have done (in real CV).
So, I'm sorry, but it is a "No" from me.

8 months ago
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Understandable, and I appreciate it. I know the direction I want to go with my GA's, so hopefully with time my ratio/profile improves :)

Just FYI, the whitelisting was not a result from this post/event, it's been there for a while thanks to your contribution to the community. There was never an expectation of tit-fot-tat. Just wanted to make this extra clear in case it seemed I had whitelisted you just for this event.

8 months ago
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No worries, I know that you whitelisted me before your initial posting. Thank you for your understanding and your kind words :)

8 months ago
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Hello, can I join your WL?
I'm going to create more giveaways soon.

8 months ago*
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Sorry, but you're not who I'm looking for

8 months ago
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Hey there! :) I would love to considered. Right now my CV is sitting at around 100:5 but I'm fairly new to the community so this might be disproportionate as I haven't had much opportunity to win yet, (I did get lucky and won a copy of Fight in the Arena on my first week, though!)

I hope to be an active contributor to SG. I have a few friends that are developers and I'm also getting started in game creation so it'd be dope to be able to add my own titles in the future as well. I'm mindful to give more than I take and I've tried to come up with a few creative activities to go alongside some of my giveaways in hopes of adding value to the community as well as incorporating myself into it a little better.

I think there might be one problem with my giveaways that disqualify me from your selection, which is that they are mostly bundled games. Thought I'd throw my hat in the ring and leave it to your discretion anyways! Thank you for your consideration :)

8 months ago
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Hi. You're way too new to be considered, sorry.
Bump this posting again when you're here for at least six months and have consistently done giveaways

8 months ago
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Thanks for taking the time to respond! See you in six months (and hopefully around in the meantime ofc) :)

8 months ago
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Hello, i'd to join to your WL

8 months ago
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No.

8 months ago
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Thanks for answering, I'll try to improve my ratio

8 months ago
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I have added you to my whitelist

8 months ago
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Appreciate it

8 months ago
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Hi there! Could I join?
My last GAs have few entries because they have been for the Unlucky-7 group

8 months ago
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Hello. You're not who I am looking for. Sorry.

8 months ago
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added you to my whitelist

8 months ago
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Thank you! :)

8 months ago
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Can I join? My ratio is 18.75 currently

8 months ago
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added you to my whitelist

8 months ago
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Keep it up for at least four more months and then consider bumping this posting again

8 months ago
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Hello try me thx

8 months ago
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Hello No kthxbye

8 months ago
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May I join?

8 months ago
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Please consider my request. Thank you!

5 months ago
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Request considered.
Welcome to my WL :)

5 months ago
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Hey, can i get on the white list? what do you say?

5 months ago
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Hello.
I say that you are on a very good path and thank you for doing so many GAs. But at this time, you are still too new to be considered. When you keep up your ratio, bump this posting again in a few months and I will be happy to take another look

5 months ago
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Thank you :)

5 months ago
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Well, thank you for your consideration! 👌

5 months ago
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Hello may I join your WL

5 months ago
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Hello! Well, it's the same as with Ezeekyule: You are doing really great, but still too new to be considered. Please bump this posting again in a few months and I will be happy to take a second look :)

5 months ago
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Sounds good :)

5 months ago
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5 months ago
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Hello there.
Well, you've been on my whitelist but I had to remove you for breaking the rules, so...

5 months ago
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Wow. I'm impressed at the longevity of this thread. From what I can tell, I'm about 97 gifted to 21 won. I joined a long time ago but only recently have been trying to interact on the site. Let me know if I meet the other standards of the whitelist, as they seem particular.

5 months ago
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Well, I've been here for over a decade, so a WL recruitment thread can run for a looooong time :D

Yup, I have seen that you only started GAs about 2 months ago. May I ask why, tho? I am curious :)
Due to this reason, I have to treat you as a new member who only joined the site two months ago and as such you will get the same treatment/answer as the other ones: Consider bumping this posting in a few months so that I can see if you kept up your stream of GAs

5 months ago
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My friend pointed out the site to me, and when I joined I tried entering to win keys, but basically never won anything at the time. Humble Bundle was doing a lot of $1 bundles at the time, and it didn't seem worth the time investment, when I never won anything.

5 months ago
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Yeah, the first win can take ages

5 months ago
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Looking over my keys available to gift, I'm not sure I have many left to keep up much significant gifting over time, and my financial/family circumstances mean I have to be pretty careful with my purchases, so I can't be as extravagant with bundle shopping and ending up with extra keys. I'll see what I can manage.

Thank you for checking anyway.

5 months ago
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Hi, what can you tell about me?

5 months ago
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You are a surprised flame

5 months ago
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Thank you, that's exactly who I am. Now I know you are a real fortune-teller... so, how about me on your whitelist? Will I be there some day?

5 months ago
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My glass ball tells me that you will be part of my WL at the end of this month when you will have kept up your GA behaviour for six straight months ;)

5 months ago
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I like this prophecy very much. I hope it will come true ;) See you next month in one of your giveaways, then.

5 months ago
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Hi, the month has passed, did I met your expectations?

4 months ago
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Hey

Lotta rules, but seems like it basically boils down to 'be active, don't leech'. And that's certainly my goal lol

Can I be considered?

5 months ago
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be active, don't be an a-hole and consistently give more than you take

"Consistently". This is why I only add people who are here for, at the very least, six months. Bump the posting again in a few months and I will take another look, okay?

5 months ago
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Important Update

(Beware, it's a wall of text)

Through the forums I was recently made aware of several circle jerk groups. Curiosity got the better of me and I looked around, just to plunge headfirst into a rabbit hole. One group led to the next and so on, with a considerate amount of always the same users making up the bulk of those group members.

Now, what are circle jerk groups (in my eyes)?
Those are groups, that are deliberately kept very small. Their goal is to create giveaways with as few entries as possible, but at least five entries to gain CV. So effectively they trade games within their group but instead of just trading or gifting the games outside of SG, they create group GAs for it. Those are groups deliberately created with bad intentions.
Why? To farm CV and levels so that they can enter every public GA there is without the need to give anything back outside of their small group.

This led me to take a long and honest look at my Whitelist, which in return led to a massive pruning which I will just call: The Purge!
Today I had to delete 113 users from my whitelist. 23 of those seemingly took part in said circle jerk groups.

Now, most of the time I can not really proof that a GA is for a circle jerk group. On the other hand, I was able to identify quite a lot of bad actors who are multi-accounting, scamming, autojoining, abusing freebies, cheating, gaming the system and so on. Those users tend to join the same groups, which makes it easier to identify groups which were created with bad intentions. Those groups I will consider as circle jerk groups.

Of course there are also small groups who were created without bad intentions.
Sometimes several bad actors also are members of those groups. If that is the case, I will at least try to dig deeper, as far as I can have a look without being a member of those groups.
If no bad actors are members of said groups and no deliberate CV farming takes place, of course I will not treat those groups as circle jerk groups and will not remove anyone from my WL who is a member of those groups.

Furthermore I also removed everyone who did not log into SG for at least one year. Because when I want new members to be active, I have to apply the same rules to the old members.

Active also means doing giveaways, so I also removed everyone who stopped doing giveaways except the ones who also no longer join GAs and do still log into the site.

I tried to be thorough and fair but of course I make mistakes. If you feel you have erroneously been removed from my WL, you can hit me up on Steam and talk about it.

Cheers.

5 months ago*
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Thank you so much for past years =)

5 months ago
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You're welcome :)

5 months ago
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Okay so now that you apparently know which of the groups here are those shady circle groups, would you mind to let me know, cuz im really curious! :)

5 months ago
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Nah, I'm not opening this can of worms publicly ;)

5 months ago
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Which means you wanna tell me private somewhere? :D
You cant hide all informations for youself! Thats not allowed at all!

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5 months ago
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Maybe I'll hit you up on Steam in the next few days, I'm still undecided about it. I won't discuss anything publicly, this would just create drama and hate.

5 months ago
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Alrighty thanks for considering :)

5 months ago
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I'd also like to know which groups are involved if you don't mind telling me privately somewhere. Afterwards you can delete the comments.

5 months ago
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Maybe I'll hit you up on Steam in the next few days, I'm still undecided about it. I won't discuss anything publicly, this would just create drama and hate.

5 months ago
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It's ok don't worry about it. I'm not concerned about it anymore.

5 months ago
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Mich hats erwischt, aaaaargh.
Danke für alles und alles Gute!

5 months ago
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Leider, ja :(
Du bist mit deinem Real CV unter die Mindestgrenze von 1:1 gefallen, da musste ich leider reagieren. Ich hoffe, du bist mir deswgen nicht böse. Theoretisch ist ja auch ein Rückweg eingebaut :D

5 months ago
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Ach was, wie sollte ich dir böse sein? Ist halt dein Standard und ich bin mir meines "Abrutsches" bewußt. Finanziell hab ich derzeit andere Prioritäten, so wie Essen und Miete bezahlen ;P Sobald sich das ändert, trudeln bestimmt auch wieder mehr Giveaways von mir ein.
Lieben Gruß ♥

5 months ago
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Danke dir :)
Und du hast natürlich recht, momentan brauchen wir alle unser Geld für wichtigere Dinge als Gaming. Außer natürlich, man ist Millionär..

5 months ago
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I'm not sure when and why was I removed, and I'm apparently also blocked on Steam? but as I needed to go back 7 months to find a GA I entered - it either happened a while ago, or apparently the change - whenever it happened - it doesn't really affects me. At the end of the day, that's good enough for me :P

5 months ago
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Not discussing anything publicly. If you really want to know, hit me up on Steam. Otherwise no ill will from my side and we will meet eachother in the forums :)

5 months ago
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hit me up on Steam.

Tried, but as I wrote, communication with you is blocked from your side, which blocks friend requests as well.
Just an FYI, I'm okay with your choice, I didn't really intend to get into details other than this

5 months ago
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You're right. I was dumb -.-
Understood. Like I said, no hard feelings from my side and we willl read eachother in the forums.

5 months ago
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That kind of groups (with ratio and private) exist since almost the beginning, it is the faster way to win a lot and farm CV at the same time, while you can join high level public GAs.

I like to call them random trading groups. They only create private giveaways on those groups to farm CV but join and win a lot of public giveaways because of their high level. That is one of the problems of the level system, those giveaways should not give CV or should require more entries.

5 months ago
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You're right, circle jerk groups exist since day one. And I have no idea how SG is able to deal with them without hitting the majority of all the other small groups who have no bad intentions.

5 months ago*
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So I see you blacklisted me, which is fine... Aren't you being hypocritical yourself in these circle jerk.groups? Looking at your giveaways most are Whitelist, Group, Region Restricted giveaway. No public giveaways? Don't you think doing mostly giveaways on your whitelist is a form of a circle jerk group? Just trying to understand your thought process.

5 months ago
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Hi Banjo, he kinda explained it to me here in cae you are curious:
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/YpCFt/got-demoted-back-to-level-1#UrQTeeD

5 months ago
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Godspeed, BanjoBear.

5 months ago
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5 months ago
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Worded my update in a more precise way and am once again taking applications for my WL.

Back up to 279 users, want to again have more than 300.
Rules in OP still apply as well as anything said in the update.

5 months ago
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Hi I'm interested to join!

4 months ago
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I'm sorry, but the answer is No

4 months ago
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Maybe in the future then, thanks anyways

4 months ago
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