Posting giveaways when unsure if key is valid or not?

Orphan keys drop thread :/ that is usually the case for people

Don't do it if you're not sure.

I would add a description in the title that the keys might not work. If that is the case for one of your giveaways, you can offer them a replacement key or ask one of the mods to delete the giveaway.

There was once a guy here who made a whitelist thread in which he whitelisted every person who agrees that the giveaway gets deleted incase the keys are invalid. So that would be an option.. (If you currently have people on your WL you could just make a temporary group for everyone who agrees)

There are no rules for such a situation. If you create a giveaway, you are supposed to deliver a game, it's as simple as that. Whatever you do, there is a chance that some winners won't agree to GA deletion if some keys are invalid, and you'll get "not recieved" and suspension. So yeah, it's either orphan keys drop thread or some way of direct delivery of keys instead of SG giveaways. Or you could always just take a risk.

Anyway, I hope you PC has already been resurrected or replaced, and the loss of the said file is the only remaining problem in this department.

I've seen several of these on the site so far in all caps YOU AGREE TO DELETE THE GIVEAWAY IF IT DOESNT WORK... as comment said above, whitelist would be "official" way to do this since users must post publicly to confirm before you add them. I suppose.