Amount of people who abuse cont. value

too damn high

also, using the support for call-out. NOT THE FORUMS. DO NOT.

"Top Contributors this week"

I'm really not sure whats going on anymore. It kinda started going berserk since the summer sale.
Eventhough.. I have seen certain people (that I somewhat know and trust) actually giving out hundreds of dollars worth of games but its still confusing.
On the other hand, I've seen people I never heard of suddenly giving out $1000 worth of hidden giveaway games in a week, somethings not right, I think.

Just ask for a reroll if the winner of your giveaway is an abuser.

Some people have larger contributions because they have submitted some keys from Indie Gala 7, that haven't been added to the bundle list yet. Then there are of course the occasional IGN Prime exploiters.

agree with op, its getting out of hand.

Vigilante action in a lawless land.

It's how the West stayed won...

Getting an estimate of $60 a year,you would think I would abuse it,but I don't! :D

Ask yourself if you want to let yourself become as dishonest as those people. I haven't contributed much (less than I've won), but at least what I have contributed I paid for despite my financial issues. I'm not going to call out those people, I'm just not going to support them and keep hitting the "report" button.

I see that same damn thing. Just look on top contributors this week, and every single week you can find jerks that make private giveaways with the most expensive developer packs. Of course their Steam library and public contribution clearly show, that they would never afford it. I've reported many of these.

Ask for a reroll if you see an abuser.

I think contributor-only giveaways should disappear, but that more private groups should be created. That way the real contributors, those that really give games and spend a lot of time here, can make giveaways to other contributors via the groups, and those who are just willing to give to the public can still do so. Plus, there is better control on who enter the groups. Contributor values are just an abusable and easy-to-bypass way to make a group, in parallel to regular groups...

The giveaway creator should ask for a reroll and that's it.

How about getting rid of private giveaways instead...I think the contributor system is rather useful, all the more with the recent bundle changes.(although the join-giveaway-points everyone receives from bundle games should also be lowered so people really have no motivation to split them up...).
What's abusable is the private system.
Like, let people do private giveaways, but without it adding to contributor value. If I buy a 4pack and give away 3 copies to 3 friends I invite to a private giveaway, that should not increase my score.
I'd vote that private gives no points, and group giveaways only give points if there is a certain number of entries per copy(say, 50 or 100 entries per).
That would make it impossible to "farm" points that way. The only ways to get points then is to use open, contributor, or big/open group giveaways, and use real games rather than individual bundle keys(already implemented).

loool I even did not read your post but this thread title and your nickname made me laugh. thanks man!

I get really annoyed by users that are exploiting things like HiB or Indie Gala. I saw one user yesterday that had 200 gifts marked as received and 1,200$ worth of gifts. Only problem was, 90% of the giveaways were Indie Gala's, 5% were HiB's and another 5% were 5$ games.

Gifting almost-free bundles only to get your contribution amount high is nothing but lame and shouldn't be allowed.

Calling out brings nothing, too!>_<

We need new trustful people in support.

-cough-top cont. this week last 2 people -cough-

Steamgifts needs to REPOPULATE. We need sg to back to its peaceful state.

I miss lokonopa

You mean the one who won the 2K collection twice? That's one lucky guy