my face.

Yeah, that should be a rule.

How do you know it was almost re-traded? Did the winner just decide to tell you?

Well, I can understand friend only, but completely private should not be allowed.

You're a very generous person, and you have good ideas. I hope Steamgifts listens to them.

Considering that you need a public profile to even join, it makes sense that you should be forced to keep it as such. I'm a bit leery about those who go public only long enough to sync.

I concur to this statement.

cg said some months ago he wants to implement a system to force users to set as public a steam profile if it's private periodically when a sync is scheduled, also checking automatically whether they activated the games or not. Currently, if I'm not wrong, there is an automatic sync every 7 days, so users would have to set temporarily their own profile from private to public at least once a week.

You seem to regularly critique this site and how it works, and constantly offer up changes for it, most of which I find totally unnecessary (no real offence intended)

That said, I completely agree with you on this. Friends-only should be fine, but people with completely private profiles shouldn't be allowed.

Also, people who retrade games they win suck.

1 - add them and wait for them to friend you
2 - make private giveaways and ask for a rule to have public profiles
3 - ask cg to check it out

Those are the three options Support says you can do in this situation. Don't just send it all willy-nilly when you can't see if they own it already.

My favorite part of these threads is watching the crazy suggestions from people who have no idea how a database works.

"I don't understand why CG won't implement this solution and create 100,000 extra queries a day!"

Unactivated won game? Ban. It really is that easy. It wont stop it completely but it definitely will help. When a user wins something, ust show him a message: "Activate the game yo, or get banned yo.".

I respect other people's privacy and freedom, so I can't say I agree with this. I haven't made my first giveaway here, but when I do, I won't mind if the winner has a private profile or trades/regifts/never uses the gift, it's his.

nty x-x friends only but not public, not a fan of strangers

What is the reason for a private profile in the first place? As for checking won games versus your game list, I figure that would be way to intense for the DB. It would be nice, but these servers are coming out of their pocket (I assume).

my head hurts

My gift almost got retarded.