The right ratio?

Your ratio is entirely up to you. Quite a lot of people will blacklist you for a ratio they don't like, but you won't get banned or anything ;)
Ratio around at least 2:1 or 1:1 (won:given) is usually a good thing to maintain if you can afford that, but it's really no biggie.

What FAQ are you talking about? I see no mention of the word "ratio" anywhere in the FAQ.
https://www.steamgifts.com/about/faq

Some people will put those "leeches" on their blacklists, meaning they can't enter their giveaways, and some people use CV ratio SGTools tests as a gateway to their giveaways.

You can't just decide that you don't like someone and refuse to give them your game after they win.

Site doesn't care about ratio, you'll never be banned for this. But users do care about it so many of them would probably blacklist you from their own GAs.
You can't request new winner 'cause of ratio. You can blacklist leechers at the first place, but if some of them win you GA you should give them a game. But there are other reasons for requesting new winner like rulebreaking or having game from GA.

Hi!

• Yes, it is not mandatory to giveaway games on this site so you won't be banned for having a bad ratio. You can blacklist users that don't fit your criteria and you can filter your giveaways with sgtools if you are looking for particular ratios from the people who enter your giveaways.

• You can refuse to give the game to someone that has a bad ratio but you would have a not sent mark on your profile and maybe a suspension for creating fake giveaways

You cannot get banned from winning too many games, even if you give away none.

What can happen, however, is people blacklisting you because of that to prevent you from joining their giveaways.
Also, many (private) giveaways present here in the discussions are created using SGTools, which allows the giveaway creator to make sure that the giveaway entrants meet certain requirements before being given access to their giveaway. These can be a a minimum ratio, no unactivated wins or multiple wins of the same game and so on.

Usually a 1:1 ratio sounds good. You get as much as you give. Anything over that is generally appreciated. :)

Edit: seems like a lot of people answered your questions. I was a bit slow with my response. :D

With this ratio, you won't get too many blacklists. ;P Other than that, it's your own choice what to do and nobody can tell you otherwise. You won't get punished or anything for having a bad ratio.

Whatever satisfies you.

The ratio is entirely up to the individual, although poor ratios are often frowned upon. However having a poor ratio has no consequences directly linked to the site, no ban or anything.
It's also not a valid ground on which you can "refuse" providing the winner of a giveaway the game you're giving away technically.
There are tools like SGTools however to restrict a giveaway within certain parameters, one of which is ratio, and you can only get the link if you pass a check, if you don't pass and yet find the link elsewhere then it is an accepted reason for reroll.

Edit: slowpoke as usual with replying :P

I like to put a mininum level equal or slightly lower to mine when I do public GA. I prefer more serious users to get my games (they will mark as received quickly, will activate the game for themselves and follow the rules). Someone who never gave anything back will have to keep joining level 0 GA and will most likely never reach 100 win... ;)

30.01, without a doubt.

Just make a level 2 GA. At least then your winners will have given some games away and not just 1 GA with a free key from a site.

Having a "nice" ratio will help you get into groups. How nice depends on the group. Certain SGtools giveaways will have ratio-limits, usually "real CV"-based (but not always). Real CV is your contributor value, where bundled games give 15%. So if you've given away an unbundled $10 game and have won a bundled $10 game, your ratio will be 6,666, which will get you into more or less anything.
But as others have said, don't worry too much about it. Give what you can or want to give. And keep in mind that not everyone can have a ratio above 1 (heck, as far as CV goes, average ratio will be less than 1. This is because once you've given away 5 of the same game, each additional copy you're giving away will net you less CV, yet it will still count full value towards the winners ratio).

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I like you ~ good luck on steamgifts ^.^

the right ratio is whatever you can comfortably afford, even if that is absolutely nothing at all. don't spend more then you can afford.
the most common preferred ratio is just being in the positive (giving more then receiving in at least one of the two ways / count or value). but not everyone is the same, some may not care at all about ratio while others want you to have a far greater ratio then that.

There are people with like 300 won and 0 sent

The "right ratio" is whatever people conjure up in their heads.
Give what you can, when you can, and when you want, and don't worry so much what others think.

Personally speaking, I think those who win 100's of games and never touch any of them, except to idle for cards, are far worse than those with a "bad" ratio, because they've taken a win from someone who may actually play and enjoy the game.

As others have said, ratio is not a hard rule from the site but a thing some people care about more than others. Some will enforce it with SGTools protected giveaways, others will blacklist people with a "bad" ratio. (Something that's very suggestive and varies from person to person.)

If you want to make the time spent on Steamgifts enjoyable, the best thing to do is give whatever you're comfortable giving, join giveaways for games you're actually interested in, and ignore the blacklist drama. (No matter how many blacklist you get into for breathing the wrong way, remember that it will always be a tiny percentage of the whole Steamgifts community and it's much better for your own sanity to simply ignore those.)

You have made some nice contributions so far, so I would like to personally thank you for doing your part in keeping the giving spirit alive and well on this site. I hope we will see you around these discussions from time to time.

Never cared about ratio, for myself or people winning my giveaways. I give when I can. I do generally only do giveaway to those who have at least given something though.

Ratio is not a big deal.

The fact also is that you can give one game at 60$ but won 10 games at 1$...ratio is ruined, but still your GA is more important.

for some it will be 10 sent:1 win, others will be happy with 2:1 or 1:1 and even 0.5:1 will be ok. it's up to everyone since there are no rules.

and yes, you can refuse to send someone his win, but it's against the rules (will count as a fake giveaway and also breaks the site ToS).

Depends on the person you are dealing with .

I dont mind anyone untill it start dipping under 20 won to 1 sent ... at that point thats just leeching >.<

But tbh thats just me , and im cancerous piece ......... when it comes to leeching D:

If you want a "negative" example, watch my won/sent-ratio. Its about 0,4:1 if you only count the amount of giveaways. If you go and watch the real-CV youll see that ive given away more than I received . Its about 1.1:1. And I am trying to play the games, I honestly give every game a chance. So Ive played some games Id never noticed if I dont won them here. But srsly: Most games are crap and if you look what I was giving away from time to time, there are games which would be played from the winners because there are good titles... So dont worry about the ratio, dont care about blacklist (for sure: I will be blacklisted for this post) and give when you can, enjoy the community, enjoy the games, enjoy the characters you`ll meet and dont care about others! Its your life. Do what you want and what you think is the right thing

As it was pointed out a few times on this thread, ratio is whatever you conjure up. What I would like to expand it with is that you'd feel a lot more comfortable in the long run if you give exactly zero fucks about other people's stats and just try to focus on making your own stats pretty enough to make you feel comfortable with it. :)