Auto-reroll and auto-refill gifts

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussions/search?q=reroll

Nice summary of possible issues, for example here.

Edit: The giveaways you made and waiting for a re-roll now are quite problematic anyways. May I suggest you ask support to delete the giveaways. Afterwards you can re-create them as invite only and invite only users that own the base game.

auto-recover limit of giveaways when you delete giveaway

This should definitely not happen. You start with 3 giveaway slots and gain 1 additional slot for every 3 giveaways you create that are marked "received" by the winner. You lose a giveaway slot for deleting a giveaway or having your giveaway marked "not received".

There is a good reason you lose a giveaway slot when you delete a giveaway. If you cause yourself to lose all your giveaway slots and cannot create any more giveaways, you should not be allowed to create any more unless you contact support and give a good reason. This is to prevent abuse.

I think auto reroll is a good idea for when the winner already owns the game on their Steam account or they have won the same game in the past and marked it as received. I think this should be automatically checked at the end of every giveaway before the winner is revealed.

I forgot mention suggestion about "Sync Account". So, if you win game, when you click key/gift "Received" site make auto-sync or request you to sync (with button nearby). If do that, people don't get another copyes of one game/soft, if they forget to synchronize regularly.

I've made a similar suggestion albeit with a system where auto-reroll occurs once both the winner and gifter click some sort of confirmation. I'll see if I can dig up that post.

There are arguments for potential issues (as there are for ever system, theoretical or exisintg), but nothing that even gets close enough to outweighing the massive efficiency boost. But people tend to stick to the status quo when it comes to change. It's some sort of mental block where they emphasis potential flaws over benefits without regard to scale, and fail to actually examine the proposal in terms of net benefits compared to what already exists instead of theoretical perfection.

So, yeah. It's a great idea that's far superior to the system as it currently exists while also relatively simple to implement and, in terms of opportunity cost, it frees up all sorts of time---and it will never happen.

no to automatization.