Not sure if it wasn't suggested before, but I think a new filter wishlist_date_earlier_than_giveaway_creation
would simplify creating wishlist based giveaways (no need to specify date) and would be sufficient in most cases, where the GA creators only want to prevent users from adding a game to their wishlist just to satisfy the filter. This would do it.
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I'm getting an unactivated win on Hamilton's Great Adventure Retro Fever DLC. I did activate on my account, so I assume there's a problem checking DLC.
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Well there are some reasons to have it in two steps.
First is because people love to know if they pass some rules or not, even if they don't intend to enter the giveaway or already own the game. So this way everybody can check if they pass the requirements without getting the url (there is an option to limit the number of times the url is given).
Second and most important, it's a protection system, so it's impossible to get the url without a clear trace on the db. Infractions are a serious issue for SGT, and to clearly identify them I need a robust system that provides me enough and detailed information to take actions if needed.
In the past I explained with more detail how this worked, I guess you can find it in this thread, since someone was blaming "sgtools didn't record my entry" to cover his rule breaking. Precisely for those cases, the system was built in a redundant way and leaving track of the different states of a giveaway entry to refute this kind of excuses easily.
PS: Happy factorycake day!
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ce844ab7-e2e0-11e6-a31e-fa163ee2f826
one invalid entry in castle of illusion gib
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Seems John Wick Chronicles changed his pre-release state somehow and now shows as an unactivated win :-(
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Hello! I am having some trouble checking the requirements for a certain giveaway protected by sgtools (unfortunately I can't give the link because it was protected by a puzzle).
When I try to check my requirements it says that "Your account is flagged as having some unactivated Wins or your profile is Private". The GA is level 1+ and the rules are:
Your account must have activated all the won gifts
Your account is not allowed to have won the same game multiple times.
Your account must never been VAC banned.
I don't understand why I get this message, my profile is public and I have activated all my games. I am pretty sure I am not blacklisted by the ga creator.
Can you shed some light on this issue? Thanks.
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Sync with sgtools http://www.sgtools.info/sync (Note, this is different to syncing with Steamgifts.)
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Hi Knsys, I'm a bit surprised with a protected GA winner. This person may have been very lucky in a very short time, or may have messed up with GA feedback to pass the rules. Since I didn't deliver the gift yet, the winner name is not public, can I add you on Steam to give your the required info to check this profile (if you want to) ?
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Hi, since yesterday I get this message "You are currently serving an infraction until 2017-03-01 08:19:37 NY Time", but I don't know why, I have a perfect status and never had a problem with sgtools.
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I've been used to SGtools being slightly incorrect for my realCV sent due to a multi-giveaway (50copies) only getting 46 valid received entries & possibly a 4copy same situation. so for the last 3 levels i've always had sgtools tell me i should be a hair higher then i really am.. but ever since i got to level 9 it immediately flipped and sgtools is behind what steamgifts.com is telling me i am, which makes no sense at all to me since i was used to the reverse of that for good reason.
as you can see in the photo attached, steamgifts.com says i am 11% into level 9, but sgtools is saying i should only be 10%.
anyways, it's not really significant, but i'm just curious what could be causing it to be off in that direction?
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With multi-copies giveaways where the bot can't really calculate the number of sent games, it assumes that you have sent everything and that is normal. So being a little ahead on those cases is just the expected result (that's why we need an api).
About the screenshots, well you are not behind, it's just a matter of rounding the decimals 10.93% is 11% when you round it to no decimals (even 10.51% is 11%). So you don't really know if you are behind or no, it's hidden by rounding applied on steamgifts side.
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4ee21078-e75f-11e6-a31e-fa163ee2f826
Invalid entry for the first two games in the list, same user.
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Hi,
There used to be a list of available variables for custom rules at the bottom of the page (when creating a filter). It seems to have been replaced with a tool to "help" build custom rules, but I don't find it quite convenient... is there a place where we can find the list of variables?
Thanks
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I'll look at it, thanks for the report.
PS: It's pointless to do several checkings at the same time, since the cache is only refreshed once and once it's refreshed the results are instant. So just checking the first one, and then the rest would report the same result with less waiting.
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no problem & good to know.
that actually reminds me though, why is there not a small caching on the rule checks? after all my GAs end i check users and sometimes i close tabs too fast without reading them thru and end up having to open the results back up a second time, and it always has to go thru the full check again. wouldn't a 10min timeout cache eat up a little less resources when i make that mistake? it's not very likely for those results to change in only 10mins anyways.
it could even have a timer on the page saying "this is a cache view of the page that will be allowed to update in 7:34 (mm:ss)"
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The checks are live because people tend to look at them when they change (real cv). It's true that on rule checking a small cache could help, but I'm not sure there would be many "hits", since people usually don't win that many games on 10 minutes :)
So at the end the cache would only waste space on the database.
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to be honest i bring it up to try and play along better with rhSGST script. currently when a giveaway ends, i use his checker to see if it's simply a pass or fail on those winners. when it's pass i don't have to open up the sgtools page (sorry, i know that's not what u want to hear), but when it's fail i open up the page to see the actual reason and date of the infraction causing the extra workload on your servers. cause i personally don't care about a infraction from 2015 or early 2016, but do care about recent rule breaking.
edit: oh and i don't mean on the CV pages at all, those should probably stay live for good reason. just the rulechecks.
also those few times a week someone creates those "why am i blacklisted?" threads, those 20people that instantly check that users rulechecks will all see the same results rather then all of them requesting fresh information.
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57fe366f-e901-11e6-a31e-fa163ee2f826
At least one invalid entrant. Might be others.
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I remember a post by SG support that since the coming of SGTools a lot of rule breakers were flooding SG support to fix their non-activated and/or multiple wins but I haven't been able to track it down, yet.
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Knsys, I have a new SGTools train running and I was wondering if you have updated stats like those you post in your main post of this thread? :-)
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cd53cdc2-e876-11e6-a31e-fa163ee2f826
9e7608a8-e876-11e6-a31e-fa163ee2f826
5e8cad3b-e876-11e6-a31e-fa163ee2f826
0f6db2f7-e875-11e6-a31e-fa163ee2f826
Invalid entry from the same user on all of those GAs.
Additionally I found something weird on 5e8cad3b-e876-11e6-a31e-fa163ee2f826 - the winner had multiple win in January and yet got the URL as he is on valid entries list (entered on 2017-02-05 15:11:56 UTC). Have I messed up the rules (they were supposed to stop from entering if someone had multiple wins in last two years) ?
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Hi, the winner of my last GA has, according to http://www.sgtools.info/nonactivated 5 unactivated games. What should I do ?
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Hope you did not sent the key/gift yet.
Request a new winner. Give as reason other, write something like "User did not activate the following games:" and copy the links of the giveaways your winner did not activate.
If the last non activation was less than 30 days ago, give "did not actiate a win in the last month".
Wait for support to handle your ticket.
If the winner already served a suspension, support will tell you to send the game.
If the winner has not served a suspension yet, you will get a new winner.
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I guess that your giveaway wasn't SGTools protected?
Don't send the game, yet!
Request New Winner => reason: Other => Did not activate wins => Wait for the answer of SG support (could take a few days time).
They will either grant the re-roll or if that user has already been suspended for those non activated wins they will deny the re-roll.
SG support advises to always sent a re-roll ticket in this case.
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You're so welcome Jerminel and I'm very sorry to hear that. I don't have that problem anymore because I use SGTools protected giveaways so I don't have very wonderful winners like you had one. :3
Using SGTools protected giveaways is a very nice and pleasant way to avoid such very wonderful winners. :-)
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No, every SGTools giveaway needs to be an invite only giveaway.
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Hello,
i can't enter sgtools giveaways anymore because i've "unactivated" gifts. That's not right because i've won a censored version (German Edition) of 'Wolfenstein: The Old Blood'. Both versions have different Steam App-IDs.
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood:
https://steamdb.info/app/350080/
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood German Edition:
https://steamdb.info/app/354830/
Is this problem fixable?
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Thank you. :)
could happen with Wolfenstein: The New Order too.
Wolfenstein: The New Order:
https://steamdb.info/app/201810/
Wolfenstein: The New Ordner German Edition:
https://steamdb.info/app/288570/
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I'm removing games from my account and checking SGTools if I removed a game that I won from here. It's worked well over the past weeks but today the rule checker isn't refreshing and I keep having unactivated games even though I reactivated them. Problem with syncing?
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