$1 Bundles

You realise your own account, with only giveaways for groups/whitelists and "private" that never seem to exceed 50 people are suspicious too right?
I mean, it looks more like you're in a CV-circle scam yourself. Just on first impressions.

So yeah, everyone got their own method for CV, why is yours "correct" while cutting off 99% of the site compared to someone else using $1 bundles for all?

My suggestion is against the (very much) people that give away 10 copies+ of the $1 Bundles. Not against the (few) ones that give them 1 or 2 times.

From the FAQ:

After you give away a game 5 times (whether in the same giveaway, or in multiple giveaways), it will begin decreasing in value.

You need to stop caring about what others are doing; they can do whatever the hell they please as long as they're not breaking rules. I'm sorry, but people like you are the worst part of SG.

I don't think we should punish people who give away games for free, even if they paid just 10cent for a game, or if they've received them for free themselves. They're gifts, there's nothing more to say.

The $1 bundles do not bother me so much. But anything that appears, or has ever appeared on either FreeSteamKeys or the newer BananaGA website should be immediately put on the 0 CV list. And left there. Forever.

same here as @ghostgg10. I was/am faced with the unused and unwanted keys from $25 worth of bundlestars purchases. I did not purchase $25 worth of bundles just to flood the market with more games. Had I not wanted any of the games in those bundles, and had the individual price-per-game not been great, I would not have bothered with purchasing the bundle, and thus saved my money (which would have made my savings account happier!). This is coming from someone who has refused to buy games on a 90% sale on steam because steamdb said it had been on a 95% sale within the last year (same starting price for both sales).
In other words, I require something to be a fantastic deal before i will buy it (or the best deal in a while, and it be for something I desperately want, in which case I stop, and think whether I ought to have it if I want it that badly).

Anyway, I have 5-10 of 40-odd games that I or my family want. However, the developer has already been payed, and the keys will expire in x months if not used. Rather than forcing others to purchase bundles or pay full price (which they might not be able to afford), I intend to giveaway the keys I and people I know don't want, thus providing somebody else a chance at the genre of game they might truly love. Is it me giving keys I don't want? yes. But nothing forces someone to enter a giveaway, unless they want to. And you have to have someone receive the key for you to get any points.

As has been stated elsewhere, even high ranks give out these same games, because people like them and continue to enter giveaways for them.

After all, not everyone likes meat, and not everyone likes spinach. Is it fair to say "I can't stand the type of food you like, so I think stores shouldn't stock that food?" which is essentially how I read what you are saying. Not everyone has the same taste in games. What one person likes in a game or real life another might hate, and some of the games the second loves, the first might despise. Neither is inherently wrong. It is just different tastes.

As someone on a very limited budget, there were years when I would have loved to be able to play some of the games that are being given away for 1P because I literally had no money available to put into steam games--I would have been happy with whatever I had.

Also, keep in mind that bundlestars limits you to two purchases per game/bundle. So, unless you get multiple credit cards & multiple accounts there, you really cannot individually flood the market with multiple copies of the same game.

Plus, those who give these games away are being active on the site, even if they are gifting games you do not want.
Blame rather the availability of the games you do not want on the devs who make such games, remembering that others love those exact games.

I don't think it is too much of a problem that people level up via cheap games. They still only get 15% of the value of the discounted game. Why punish those who are merely trying to lighten someone else's day by saving them money, while at the same time not wasting a perfectly good key?

Also, nothing in the guidelines states that anyone must giveaway high-price, never-discounted-outside-of-steam games. I doubt very many people would be here, or would give games away, if that was a hard rule--and you would still have the same problem with "cheap" games flooding the market, the only difference being the standard of what is "cheap." There are those who are giving keys to get rid of their unwanted keys and at the same time gladden someone else's heart.

As I see it, CV is essentially a counter of someone community involvement, not a referendum on the quality of the games that they give away.
Your opinion may vary. :D

(PS: I'm sorry if this is disjointed, as I am rather tired while writing this.)