Sorry but this is a little bit too harsh bullshit

I just recently typed "This guy is reported" on a 2k giveaway, and I could get suspended for that, even tho giveaway was closed.

*Viva.

how is "seems legit" calling out if you want to be a smartass about it ? He reinsures the people that the legitimacy of the giveaway seems fine. Thats like the opposite of calling out.

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He didn't say a word about the giveaway being legit or not. And even though we can be pretty much 99.9% sure that it was sarcasm, you need to take in mind that with text, you cannot be completely sure what the person said. How about investigating the s*it before slamming the banhammer on the guy.
I call this a moderator being oversensitive.

Sorry, but I'm not going to take ToS advice from someone who doesn't natively understand the language they're written in :/

So if my opinion is that this giveaway is fake and I want to want users I need to be suspended for bad behaviour? You realise how stupid this is?

Many of us think he did. I've been suspended for "calling out," before, although my posting was sort of in a "grey area." I do not begrudge the mods for suspending me, nor do I think it was "too harsh" a punishment. I should have just kept my mouth shut.

If you dance around the edge of a pit long enough, you're bound to fall in.

Its text. You can't understand inflection, or even what the guy was talking about. He commented on someone else's post, not the giveaway itself. Too many factors at play here to suspend without talking to the guy first.

Here have a read. Just little something about calling out.

I once was jailed because i killed a guy with a chainsaw.
I only meant good.

I entirely agree with the no calling out rule. Only, I personally think that it's taken a bit too far when saying that it's a legit giveaway gets you suspended because "it COULD be considered calling out". Seriously, whatever happened to innocent until proven?

The reasoning is that you can't always be 100% sure a giveaway is fake, and you're needlessly antagonizing the GA maker if it turns out to be genuine. The way it's enforced is harsh, but forbidding calling out itself makes sense. Also see this post.

....im just hoping since bobo suspended the outcaller it means he thinks it might a be real giveaway

The "benefit" is that you don't offend someone making a legitimate giveaway. It has happened in the past (more than a few times) that someone has made a first giveaway only to have people dis' it as being "fake" and thereby piss-off the creator, causing him or her to leave the site. When you weigh that against the "benefit" of "protecting the good people of SteamGifts from wasting valuable time investing imaginary points in a fake giveaway which they will regenerate in a short time," it is clear which side you should come down on.

+1 he answered the thank you comment
There's a fuckton of arguments against this suspension ._.

We can always make a massive outcry on steamgifts, they'll notice.

Yes.

but what exactly is the big deal about it? spam? i personally wouldn't give a damn if people posted this stuff on my giveaway

Would be good if you refer to here or just straight here

Calling out, in a logical viewpoint, is not nice.

What defines as a callout, the officials have their own judgement about it.

Denying it is like denying a judge when the verdict is final.

You get suspended for anything on this site.

No, but the support members will hate you... For eternity... Then, the only way to get back on their neutral side is to dedicate your whole life to Steamgifts, forever, and forever...

The power happy argument is ridiculous. You think I want to spend my time suspending these jokers that can't just follow the rules? It's part of my duty. I wish I could just HELP the users that legitimately need help, but over 50% of our support tickets are User Reports of people breaking rules. Suspending people doesn't make me happy; it's frustrating. But it's necessary.

you shouldnt be so toxic towards the mods

now was that sarcastic or not ? the mods apparently have a sixth sense to feel the undertone of written messages

People mostly call out when the person who gives away a game joined 2 seconds ago and its a high priced game or a game pack which you cannot get atm. That's mostly what I've encountered on.

+1

Your first giveaway was of regular Skyrim and it was fake because you selected the wrong game.
FAKE GIVEAWAY! :P

Look at your description, there's stuff written in there, while in most of these "legit", "fake" giveaways that people are talking about there's nothing being said and there are like 3 copies of 50-60$ games.

But yeah, no need to say anything, just don't enter and move on.

Nah, it would be enough to have a page when creating your first giveaway where you have to type in a box: "I understand and agree to follow the rules and will only create giveaways for games I am planning to give away." or something like that, ofc with the rules to look at. That would sort out the people who are just incapable of speaking english, which I guess is the main reason for fake giveaways... Just my two cents though

Tu, ad hoc sito ludos per dono das et ludos accipis donatio ingrediendi, haud falsum donatium creandi ut ludos vis accipere.

probably not correct but appreciate my effort

"Ou-yay, on-way is-thay ite-say, ive-gay ames-gay y-bay eating-cray iveaways-gay and-way eceive-ray ames-gay y-bay entering-way iveaways-gay,ot-nay y-bay eating-cray (ake-fay) iveaways-gay or-fay e-thay ame-gay ou-yay ant-way!"

Pig latin translation. :D

You can't differentiate between joke begging and actual begging some of the time, so how do you best determine which is which?

And, when joke begging is allowed, someone sees it, and makes a real begging post, they'll say "well I saw all these other people doing it and it was okay".

Even more complicated by having a userbase from around the world, many of whom English is not their primary language, which makes it even more difficult to discern the difference.

Thus, all begging is against the rules. It's not even funny as a joke anyway.

As for how support members spend their time; we're volunteers and can spend it however we please. If I see a suspicious giveaway on the front page, I'm going to check it out and take action where necessary. But a random ticket in page 14 of the queue doesn't exactly grab my attention when I enter the site. I'm not even working tickets right now. As I said before, I'd prefer to be helping users, but over 50% of our tickets are User Reports.

It also doesn't help when users create multiple tickets regarding the same issue, clogging up our queue.

lol - you tempt me sir...

Are you sure?