One thing that seems relatively simple to implement when it comes to regifting is this:

When a level 0 account creates a giveaway run a check to see if it is for a game they won on here, if so, display a not to miss message explaining regifting is not allowed. This would likely cut down on regifting and thus on support time and user aggravation.

The rules against regifting are quite clear in the FAQ right now but you can bet the majority of level 0 users have not read them.

Make me the president. I promise that will fix everything.

Problem: Not enough mods.
Solution: Hire more mods.

Proposal

Users may only create one thread per week. No rollover.

SG is improved you just need to chill the frick out

Problem: Easy Steam Gifts needs to be a thing
Solution: Build in Easy Steam Gifts functionality

Problem: Spending too much time wading through the latest bundle of whatever type of game you don't like
Solution: Allow sorting / ignoring of games based on Steam Tags

Let's say, you don't like Hidden Object Games. You could hide all games tagged (on Steam) with the "Hidden Object" tag.

Or Visual Novels, or Sports, or Shooters, or VR... Whatever type of game you don't want to look at - without picking "hide" for each individual game.

Problem: Steam Bundles or DLC show up in things I can enter, even when I own everything in said bundle, or that specific DLC.
Solution: IDK - "Fix it"?

Seriously - I don't know why this happens, or how to fix it. But it's kind of annoying.

Problem: Not enough Potatoes.
Solution: Potato

"free 4 all" section: basically a list of outright free games on steam possibly sorted by user score, possible links to 3rd party free games, no ftp/microtransaction games.
"would you like fries with that" section: sg knows what games we have, this section would use that data to bring up a list of free dlc you therefore qualify for so you don't miss any freebies.

I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I think SG would be better without any forum whatsoever, and no comments, etc. Strip it down to the most pure form of what it was meant to be, a way for kind folks to randomly gift games to strangers on the internet. Eliminate all the infighting, popularity contests, etc.

Ducks for cover...

• Well... SGTools can do a lot of things when it comes to checking for broken rules and such. I always thought that having a least a part of SGTools' functionality here would really help a lot of users.

• I'd also like the possibility to tag certain games, usually ones I'm interested in, but that's just me.

• And it would be nice if giveaway creators weren't so vulnerable to negative feedback and the respective consequences.
  For instance, say I use keys instead of gifts. I have no way of knowing if someone that wins my giveaway actually uses the key I provided on an alternate account, sells it or whatever, then marks the game as not received or tells me it's been used already and I should solve the issue. Would I be obligated to repurchase the game and send it to the winner?
  It could also happen that the creator makes a mistake and provides an used key, of course. People are prone to making mistakes.
  The giveaway can be removed, but only if the giveaway winner gives his approval. Why, though? Wouldn't an explanation of the situation suffice as for a reason to delete the giveaway?
  As far as I know those who create giveaways actually want to give games, they shouldn't be punished if they make a mistake. I can't think of a situation where someone creates giveaways with the intention to do harm or how that's even possible, except the occasional troll, but there are alternative ways to handle that.

Free potatoes with every gib? ;-)

It would be kinda cool if there were a discussions section where you MUST do a GA to post something (in that section). I know it is expected most of the time anyway (at least by some people) and it happens a lot in puzzles and elsewhere but still.

Would also be kinda cool if you could more easily add the dlcs you own to your hidden games list. I know it can't be done automatically because of bs with the steam api bit it would be cool if when I'm in a train and I come on a game I own, if I had options to hide each of the dlcs on that page too. Or something along those lines.

My concern is pretty small considering the opinions/suggestions adressed before me, but here it goes:

Problem: Ratio "Rework" on Groups - (Stats part)

Introduction: You know when you give a game to 2 giveaway groups, and you deliver you get +0.5 Gift Sent to each group.. Ok, that seems fair, no? Hmm after some thought it isn't that much fair, and there's a bigger issue - Whitelist - that utterly doesn't count towards the ratio or gets divided, and sometimes it can be bigger than such groups.

Before saying my suggestion i'll leave you with the current system:

You giveaway a game to one group = +1Gift Difference (100% ratio to the group)
You giveaway a game to a group + whitelist = +1Gift Sent (100% ratio to the group)
You giveaway to two groups = +0.5 each (50%)
You receive a game from a giveaway with only a group = -1Gift Difference
You receive a game from multiple groups you get = -X / Split by the number of groups

My current suggestion:

You give a game to Group X, the winner is from Group X you get +1 GD (Gift Difference) on Group X
You give a game to Group X and Group Y, the winner is grom the group Y, you get +1 GD on Group Y and +0 on Group X
You give a game to Group X, Y and Z, and also to the whitelist, the winner is from the whitelist, and its not on any group, you get +0 on every group

Winning a game should be the same concept but instead of getting +1 you'll get -1 each time you receive a gift

I consider this the fairest way, because you don't actually give a game to the group (deserve the +GD) if the winner is from the whitelist, or if it's from another group, imagine I have two groups, one only gives AAA games the other only gives OtakuMaker stuff, Well I would giveaway some crap to both groups, and obviously the AAA group doesn't want to lose ratio on a stupid game, so the winner will be from the other group, YET I will get +0.5 on each group, as in I helped or gave some game on the AAA group, this is totally unfair, just like the CV Farming, when I give some copies of a 15x bundled game, and add whitelist, all the entries are from the whitelist, yet I'll get +100 on the group, is this really deserved? Did I really contributed to the group's giveaways? I Don't think so..

Now I now, this is a secundary problem, and the logistics to this ajustment could be really difficult, but this would solve the CV farming in groups and it would be fair to the groups, as in some groups may not die from saturation*

• For Example, I giveaway a game to a group + whitelist, on a group with 1:1 ratio, well the winner is from the whitelist, I'll get +1 on the group, but nobody will get -1, so nobody will have to return/fix the ratio, and this isn't sustainable, if this happens a lot, or the game always goes to other group / whitelist, and many people get +Gift Difference but nobody gets -Gift Difference, nobody will fix their ratio, or give games, and the group will eventually die out, just because the games weren't really for the group itself

Again, the issue is small, but it would help and contribute to a more clean steamgifts on the private giveaway group scene, because the ratios would matter and would be deserved, and they couldn't be just be "faked"

My first concern is with the massive amount of shovelware and utter crap games on this website.
People seem to think users with massive Sent / Won ratios are generous when they really aren't.
50 copies of crap no one wants, versus 5 copies of a game people want and will actually play.

I don't have a solution because it would require people themselves to be better, and that can't be coded into the website.
Giving away pure garbage and winning diamonds is simply bad form.

My second concern is that we can't give away games that were once given away for free.
I have 5 copies of a game that will sit in my Steam Inventory forever just because I wanted to give them away here.

I don't have a solution for this either as I am simply unsure how to fix it without creating more problems.

My third concern is with some of the rules, namely begging.

I think we should be able to beg for games, but only if we're going to add them to our own account.
Make a single thread dedicated to begging, anyone found making a giveaway out of their begs gets permabanned.

This way if I have extra copies of this or that and some user really wants it I can give it directly to them.
The site is called SteamGifts after all, not SteamGiveaways, SteamRaffle, or SteamLottery.

These are just a few of my thoughts. I could make an entire thread about what I would do to improve SG, but
I doubt anyone would actually read the entire thing.

Problem: I want a group refresh button, so, so badly. Once you kick someone from your group, if they are inactive, sg can't sync them until they have logged in. If they never log in, however, they are stuck in your group, and that clutters the users page, which makes it hard to kick people who need to be kicked.
Solution:
1.) Get a group refresh button for the creators of the group to force sync everybody's account.
2.) Give support the power to sync groups.

I don't want to close this thread because I do think there are some very good points being made here. However, I can see that page 1 is devolving into a flame war again, so I'm going to have to nip this. Feel free to remake this thread in the future, but hopefully when it's calmer.

I'm so glad this ryokan I'm staying at tonight has internet. Or maybe I'm not glad after reading this thread?