Marking games as private should not be against the rules

While your argument is logical I think every pervert should stand by their hentai games. If you really must hide set your profile to private thus SG moderation still has a modicum of control by enabling them to see if you activated a won game or not.

One of the simplest reasons why the rule is in place is to make sure that the winner actually activated the game in their account. Otherwise they might say that they did activate the key and immediately marked it as private, while in reality they just re-gifted or re-sold their win.

While I'm a support member, I'm posting this as a user. All wins should be public. Having those games visible is proof users aren't cheating the system and trading their wins away.

I get people don't like keeping certain games publicly viewable, but if you have a win here, people need to be able to see it.

So, about proving the game was activated in the first place: I understand that and it makes sense. But once that has been proved, I don't think it should be a problem to hide it. I have a week to activate it and to prove the activation. After that, it shouldn't matter.

Your win list is also public. Don't enter games you don't "own up", just buy it yourself and turn it private.

Otherwise everyone can just sell their wins, enter and win games multiple times, likely causes an issue with the "game received" as people don't need to activate the game, they can just easier lie about not getting the key. It literally destabilizes the fundamentals of the site. Better just think twice about a win.

Hm... I have a solution, but it will require more admin work, or the system to be improved.

1) Syncing should check if you own the games from your win list
2) When checking if you own the games in your win list a timestamp needs to be attached, and a check mark to indicate "does own the game"
3) When doing future syncs it won't recheck won games that already have a "does own the game" checkmark, or a timestamp that indicates WHEN it was updated to "does own the game"
4) After marking a game as "activated" from your win list a sync automatically gets initiated (the purpose of which is to see if you've actually activated the key on your account). And maybe add a disclaimer stating that if the status doesn't reflect that you own the game then you need to make your library public, and unprivate the game, for the next two weeks (in the scenario where the site is struggling to see if the winner now owns the game).

If users buying the won game, having the site check the "down own the game" status, and then they refund it (and use the key they won for whatever purpose), is a big concern then there maybe needs to be an additional rule in place. To recheck a won games "does own the game" status 2 weeks after initial activation, and if it isn't present on the account then it will update to "down not own the game" and in essence flag that the user did something fishy.

Eh, don't enter giveaways for games you'd be ashamed of. Most of them are relatively cheap anyway.

There is always an option to hide your games and just not use steamgifts anymore 🤷

Don't enter if you will not accept the win. This should be iron-clad rule.

Yes, it should.
If you're not comfortable with having a certain game show up on your profile, don't enter a giveaway for it. That's it. It's simple.

Your idea goes aganst the sg rules and the rules will not change in this point.
End of the story.