my level dropped a lot recently

Nah, it's the same - remember, SG is not part of selling those keys, it's just you (inadvertently or not) that made a bad deal for yourself.
Meaning, it's not SG's responsibility to carry the burden of a person buying full price keys and giving them away for free/reduced CV later on.

While I can understand the feeling, it still isn't SG's fault, it's just reality. And I'm not sure a faster control from SG's side on this would help that feeling at all, reduced CV is reduced CV after all. While it regularly seems to come as a surprise to many - this question have been asked soooo many times - this way at least SG gives something for a short period (sometimes not so short too) instead of directly removing the CV.

If it feels really bad, then try googling or asking here before a purchase so you can be better prepared for the possibility of reduced CV. This after all, is the key purchasers resposibility, not SG's.

Of course. I don't know how the reduction was applied, but given that the last giveaway was also 5 years ago, I would hope that the CV doesn't get reduced in case something became free 3 years ago, for example. I didn't check all the GAs but some I saw having No Value had it set from 2018 or earlier

LoL, of-course a topic like this can never be not with your presence, lmao. It's like you refresh the forums every 5 min to jump in whenever something related shows up.

Oh and hey, how was it with the call out rule again?

Anyway, have you read the senior mod's comment I linked to, basically mirroring what I say?
Is it crystal clear why he wrote that 2 years ago too?

Btw., the situation is indeed very clear, but let me explain. The problem ain't so much what is being done, but the combination of when paired with explicit previous decisions of former mods not to do it when the bundles were live.

Things could be so easy with properly and exactly applying some clear math, which then would also be transparent and comprehensible and most importantly predictable for the users, avoiding surprises (years) down the line.

For many of the cases/bundles the math even checks out, thus it would have been perfectly fine to do the action back in the days ages ago, however the mods of then decided not to, and that should not be left unconsidered. As this is the point that bugs the people.

Btw 2, how do you come to the negative conclusion doing a personal attack against me? When all I have written was an accurate retelling of what happened before. (Some factual information such threads most often dearly miss)
Personally, the actions may very well even benefit me in terms of entries/win chances over all. Something I much rather suspect to be your motivation in pushing it.

I would quite in fact greatly welcome a full switch to applying exact math to everything to once and for all end the uncertainty and wobbling.
Specifically:
95% discount from full retail value invoking reduced-cv.
95% discount from 15% retail value (its reduced-cv valuation) invoking zero-cv. (This step is reached at 99,25% discount of retail value)
(both with considering regional pricing where applicable)

It can be so easy...

From like 6 years ago? Maybe, didn't scroll that far back.

I understand abuse being handled, but this is still a very long time. Real life bills aren't forced to be paid if they somehow end up unpaid for this long.

Just took a short look. You did for example give away several Luxor, 7 Wonders, Midnight Mysteries, Gardens Inc and Samantha Swift games starting shortly after the Dollar Jumbo Bundle in 2017 and until 2019.

Edit: checked the single games as well: you gave away at least one copy of each of the games from the Dollar Jumbo Bundle at some point after September 2017.

So even if you didn't buy that bundle (though the fact that you gave away a lot of those games just one month after the bundle makes it seem likely you did), those giveaways are definitely affected by the retroactive reduction. Not sure if that's enough to account for ~$700.

Game Guru DLCs Bundle(s) and RPG Maker Bundle(s) were corrected too.

All in all bundles with -99%, which means, from my point of view, that they handle it now correct because of the extreme discound, because it was extremely abused/exploited (take a look how many copies people gave away and which extreme cv gain they got for it) and go the same route as they do since months when other games/bundles with -99% got set to free too.

Better late then never :o) Special when i see a bit above someone go from level 7 to 5. Alone because of so few bundles.

Ps.: I lost all in all 0.06 level, but i don't care.

So maybe it is better for me to abstain from discussing this further since I can't provide hard facts.

Check your profile with the wayback machine or similar and see the old(er) stats.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240917110725/https://www.steamgifts.com/user/AmanoTC

Pick the for you fitting date by yourself.

From what i see you lost $8 to your actual stats :-D

To be fair, a lot of the mods changed.
So, absolute possible, that the new mods see(n) the information the first time.

And, of course, had first now as mods the possibility to do something.

Plus the handling for the -99% reduced games and bundles changed first in the last months, i assume because of the extreme abuse with the overpriced trash games that swamped steam and sg.
The same thing happened since years but the overpriced trash games before were at that time "only" $14 - $21 and the costs for them, in shady ru shops, were between 4 and 16 cents (in average around 8 cents).
I would be happy when the new mods would nuke this abused GAs too (i reported hundreds of them in the long ago past and they were set to bundled = 15% cv....). Some level 8 - 10 dudes would directly lose 4-5 levels

Recently informed = recently submitted ticket.

The open tickets in the Add Game to List category was 200+ and is now at around 40. I dealt with lot of these in the last couple of months and none of those tickets mentioned these bundles. None of the remaining tickets are about these bundles.

So, in terms of my time as a Mod, this is the first I've heard of them and the only information about them submitted when I could do anything about them. I haven't, unsurprisingly, gone through all the closed tickets for the last 7 years to check if they had all been dealt with correctly, nor was I aware of the bundles when I was a regular user.

If users have been "very vocal" about these bundles then it was before my time, so I'm not sure how I personally could have dealt with them. The number of mods increased over the last couple of years and most tickets in every category aside from 'Unsuspend Request' are a fraction of what they were which I see as a positive thing.

This kind of reaction is exactly why I don't usually post in Discussions. It doesn't matter what is happening = tickets aren't dealt with, are dealt with, CV is reduced, not reduced, whatever happens somebody will be unhappy. So, I'll go back to quietly dealing with tickets.