How dare you win my public giveaway? Blacklisted!

There are people that link their gift to go to different people so as soon as you won from them, they blacklist you so next time someone else will win, don't do that myself but read that some do, doesn't have anything to do with the winner.
That said, hope you enjoyed that game ^^

I read somewhere, years ago, that some will blacklist recent winners to prevent them winning again for some time. I do not agree with that practice, but see the reasoning behind it.

Just take the L, and move on ¯\(ツ)/¯
People will blacklist you for any random shit, at some point you just learn to not care.

Well this is easy to look up who it was.

The community has changed a lot, compared to 8 years ago, to 4 years ago, to now, but it has nothing to do so much about blacklists, that's always been there.
Dude i am over 1000+ whitelists and 200 so blacklists, in my beginning here, i did some "funny" topics some clearly didn't find funny, but those were the times back then, which do you think is more important? Count your blessings with what you do get and what good people still are here.

It's not an indirect answer, it's because in the past the forum didn't get moderated, people got moderated differently, sometimes unfairly, people got bullied away, very good people, people that made this forum lively with puzzles, giveaways, trains etc. That is the direct answer.

But what Oppenh4imer said, some people do that, and it's in their right.

Nah, don't take it personally; there is a good chance that the gifter just wants to spread out gifts to different winners, so he/she just does not want you to win again from the same source.

This has happened to me once: a gifter blacklisted me for this very reason, but at the same time she was very very friendly to me personally. Funny thing is, she is in my whitelist, but since blacklists work both ways, she will never be able to win something from me, unhappily. Or at least I guess that's how it works.

Cheers!

Some people blacklist other users for illogical reasons. Sometimes it's not even out of malice, as was stated already.

Whatever the reason, I would not call you a leech as you've given a good amount of games in the past. Your ratio is still not that bad despite not making any new giveaways in recent years. Because of how many bundles and freebies are out there, I don't judge someone for having a ratio slightly less than 1 at all. Especially some people have inflated ratios with overpriced shovelware that has yet to be added to the No CV lists. And there just seems to be more every day.

At the end of the day, I don't take any blacklist addition to heart. I know that some people will add me to their blacklist because they have found out I blacklisted them. To which I just laugh, because there's no point in doing so.

You may have been added to a blacklist today. But now you're on a new whitelist. Hope to see you as a winner on one of mine sometime.

i literally got multiple blacklists just for creating a thread with giveaway, there is no point in searching for logic in this

Ah yes, that was me. Tbh, after seeing this thread I don't really see any reason why I should change my mind.

I absolutely get that not everyone can afford to gift games. But my impression was that you are one of those people trying to reach a specific level with rather cheap/trashy giveaways and then stopped gifting for several years. As you can tell by my reaction I'm not a fan of that behaviour.
And btw. how would it be relevant to me that you whitelisted me for 4 years if you didn't create giveaways over these years?

Now you won a pretty good game from me and next time it's supposed to be someone else. My games, my choice.

... atleast you didn't do stupid shit like marking your won giveaway as not received, trying to gift the won key, spaming someones steam profile where his game is after 5 minutes of ending giveaways or something simliar. lol

His games are his decision. There are other people who give away games and don't blacklist you :)

So i'm here with this post to rant a little bit, but mostly, to show to all community how people got quite unfair and less of a "community" over the years. That's and indirect answer to those wondering why discussions got quite limited than 5 or 6 years ago.

You turned this pity-party into mocking the creator of said giveaway, (making super clear who they are just by they OP), and also said that you "refrain from participating due to much drama these days." You really shown both the creating drama and the less of a community part better than most. You fit in well with them.

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your tone and choice of words is once again insulting"

So is your behaviour that I pointed out, but that's not an issue for some reason, only people point that out to you? Also, is discussing your in-topic behaviour less on-topic, than you dragging out a multi-year old, out of context comment from *somewhere* that is not even applicable to your situation?
I literally did not say a word about your GA habits, but you immediately go on a defensive, and attack me instead. As you did with Golwar - as they told you why they blacklisted you, instead moving on you started mocking them in multiple of your replies. Don't tell me this is normal behaviour, and this is what you want to see on the site. Being short on money fucking sucks, but lashing out to people and blaming them is not a good coping strategy.

I'm going to be a tad supportive - I 'sort of' understand where you're coming from; public gib, you thank the creator and get to enjoy the game and end up being blacklisted.. I see your point.

On the other hand, as many said, people blacklist other for all kinds of reasons (incl. myself who got hundreds of ppl on blacklist) and creator's argumenting seems fair too - there's a large number of people who give away certain amount of dubious games to build up their level and then end up being 'leeches' or the other point too - what's the point of being whitelisted when whitelisting person does not create WL giveaway from time to time so that love is returned in some way? Because otherwise, it's just a +1 to some irrelevant statistic similarly to people getting their +1s for their libraries.

Probably best to move on and not to tread on this too much.

I don't really see the point of this thread.

Perspective: You got a FREE GAME from the guy, during a time in your life when you're experiencing "prosperity problems", the guy decides he doesn't want to give you any more free games, and you create a thread about it? Really, how did you expect the guy to reply to you after all this hub-bub over a blacklisting? You've named/shamed him. I'd be annoyed as well.

I'd suggest closing the thread and moving on. This isn't a pretty color on you.

Here's my proposal: I have been giving away random games, either publicly or in Steam groups, for about a first year spent on this site, and then automatically whitelist those who mark it as "Received" within 48 hours.

Afterwards, I started to limit giveaways for the most valuable and/or best reviewed games to my whitelist group if I don't create an occasional invite-only train.

I seem to be practically the opposite of this guy, albeit being rather exclusive about it.

Guys I'm really sorry for muting the voices, but I'll take Tzaar's advice and close the topic.

Since the giveaway creator replied but then retracted his interest in seconding his initial claims, the topic would only cause more drama without any helpful reasoning from any side, granted that I'm not anymore willing to patiently listen to personal insults just to keep the topic on track.

Thank you all for participating.