New here, just a few suggestions

You really don't need to sign your posts, guy. Your name is already attached at the top.

Thanks, Holy Diver.

-Forum subsections

Been suggested, and may or may not be implemented in the future.

-Comment on user pages + more customizable user page.

Comments, no. No no no. Last thing we need is for the occasional flame wars on the forums to have a new breeding ground. Customizable user page, meh.

-Karma/Thumbs up, down system, for comments, user pages, giveaways, etc.

We've got the gifts received rating, and that's about as accurate a "karma" rating as you can have on here. Liking posts though, yes plz.

-An optional system that checks if the giver has the game gift-able, optional because sometimes people have redeemable codes, but this would just provide a little assurance.

Again, been suggested, may or may not be in the works (personally, sounds like it'd be awkward to implement).

-Giveaways cost half points on birthday, or something along those lines.

...wha?

-Reward for users who create frequent giveaways.

Again again, been suggested. Anything more than cosmetic rewards has been shot down.

Welcome to SG, newbie.

So any opinions on the suggestions?

Hello! First, thank you for your suggestions. I will now respond to them.

1. Like Myspace?

2. SGS already has a similar +/- system. I think what we have here is fine, as that kind of system could possibly bury legit giveaways when people claim they are fake.

3. This would require having to force users to either keep their profile public and inventory public, or temporarily go public while they are creating a giveaway and then wait for the verification.

4. Well, considering you don't have to type in a birthday to join this site, that would be a little extra work to implement for something we probably wouldn't want to do.

5. I really wouldn't want to reward people that create frequent giveaways, that's been suggested for months. Anyway, reward with what? More points? Points are generated pretty quickly most of the time.

Thank you for your suggestions. We do take suggestions seriously and several of them have been implemented due to popular demand.

pffffhahaha

While none of these will probably get implemented, you at least didn't suggest the same two or three things every new person suggests which get denied over and over. So... good job I suppose :)

I don't like any of these suggestions. Stop trying to turn this place into facebook and myspace people.

Would love to see comments on user profiles. Also a rep system might be good.

Gotta disagree on commenting on profiles. The main result would be comments begging for free games/begging for invites to private and group giveaways, resulting in gifters wanting to opt out of it (much like those currently wanting to opt out of the top contributors).

It just wouldn't result in anything besides spam unless it had a significant amount of work put into it, like being able to restrict it to those on your Steam friendslist/those in groups you're a part of, without any real value to make that work worthwhile.