Suggestion: Increase the 1000 user limit for whitelists

That's exactly my point, though.
The limit on the whitelist reflects- whether that was the initial intention or not- the assumption that it'll be exclusive, or rather, within 1000 people- and that for anything else, you'd be willing to use steam groups.

And no, you're misinterpreting my intent: I didn't mean exclusive in the sense of 'you're special to be in here', but in the sense of 'this is a group for giveaways with a limited quantity of entrants'.
Whether thats from a forum event, or your personal appreciation, or other conditions, the assumption still is that whitelist is a group specifically for a small quantity of users.

Certainly, that's how things generally appear to be in practice- though, pushing aside assumptions on use, there's certainly no reason someone can't make whitelist a casual list, and steam groups their exclusive groups, aside from the 1000 person limit.

And, how odd. People usually get far more upset about being kicked from a whitelist, in my experience, versus a group that clarifies the possibility of such.
And I think that's because there IS no enterance commitment to joining a whitelist, so when you get booted, people on occasion believe they must have done something wrong to get booted.

Not arguing your utilization, or arguing that it may be a preferable utilization for how you use the site-
just attempting to note that you seem to be using it in a rather off-the-path manner.

So on the one side, that suggests any increased load would be minimal- but it also suggests that cg's interest in it would be low. And that's not getting into all the many much more generally useful things that have been requested to be added, with no response, and how that makes this niche matter even less likely to be addressed. :X

Or, put another way: There doesn't seem to be any reason to naysay it, but no real reason to promote it, either, given how it seems unlikely to affect very many users.

Certainly, if that latter part is proven mistaken, that'd change things :)

I have this anyway

I'm not sure you saw my edit before posting, but that should answer why the game blacklist is unlimited. It skips a lot of unnecessary processing of groups and personal lists, therefore saves CPU cycles and database connections. Plus if the entire database is cached in memory then the limits prevent the database size from expanding beyond the available memory quicker.

Edit: I doubt many people utilize their white/blacklists at all, let alone being near max. The forums are the least utilized portion of the site, and the primary source of why people would want to use their lists.

If you know the people you can give them the giveaway link no?
Since sgtools is just a filter thing that only shows the link if you pass.
But if you have the giveaway link you can enter it without the sgtools right?

If you cant put people inside a giveaway giving them the giveaway link without them needing to pass sgtools filter them thats bad, and probably increasing the whitelist is a better option, but still 1k people is a lot for a whitelist are you sure everyone on your whitelist is still active here? some may have not logged for months.

Ok posted. I blamed/credited you for pointing me to that thread. ;)

:)

still a 1000 user limit