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I could care less if somebody blacklisted me , they are probably nintendo fans if they did tho lol

I've been blacklisted for not being able to use a service that was geolocked before. The person wanted people (in a public giveaway if I recall) to go to the website, sign up and upvote them or don't enter more or less. I replied nicely that I couldn't because it was geolocked and didn't enter the giveaway. Their reply was "Seriously?" and blacklisted me. Fun times.

Other times I have been Blacklisted from being a Developer, which is fine, but P2 is a bundle list game and actually gives pretty much no Contributor value! The 100 copy giveaway didn't even shift me a fraction of a point as far as I could tell which I was actually happy about Postal 3 wasn't made by RWS and I actually bought those to give out because people kept asking me to. So those are no different than anyone else doing a giveaway of a non-bundled game! Factoring out all the P2 Giveaways, I would still be level 5 or pretty darned close to it! Yes I am sure, when I give out more games which I will in time, tried to give out Hatred before it was bundled, but I accidentally posted the key publicly so figured I should cancel it tiny little slivers of CV will come from the P2 giveaways then, but still, minor impact in the grand scheme of things. No exploiting of "free keys" as I don't get "free keys" for P3 or PL which are the only non-bundle list titles that would have any meaningful gains in CV.

With all that said, people who blacklisted me for whatever reason they had is fine if they felt it was fair. I don't really enter much on here any more as it is. My Backlog grew, thanks to bundle addiction, to the point where unless a game is on a fantastic deal or I see a giveaway of a game I desperately want to play, I don't really try to collect more games any more. I have even stopped watching bundle sites after finally kicking my bundle habit. Went cold turkey, 3 months and counting.

Plus I am incredibly busy lately. I work a full time job (terrible pay), I am a College Professor part time (which also pays terribly oddly enough), moderator of a large site I won't name (but I have the same user name there too and it doesn't pay at all) and all that is on top of the stuff I do for RWS.

Anyway time to finish off this blog post... wait this isn't Blooger?!

Not that it really matters but anyway ... I've blacklisted only users who have blacklisted me and users who were flaming against the community unreasonably.

I remember seeing that I was at least on one blacklist for some reason unknown to me.

I usually only blacklist people that are regifters, but sometimes someone might end up there for some other reason.
After reading this, I almost completely emptied my blacklist to give everyone there another chance.

I tried to resist the temptation, but I can't. As far as I know I've only been blacklisted by two people. One of them took me off for some reason, but the other hasn't. I have no idea why they blacklisted me and it is eating me apart. I lie awake at night wondering what I did. I don't really mind being blacklisted, but I just wanna know why. If it's because I'm a dick, fine. If I broke a rule, fine. Just tell me why D:

If I blacklisted any of you, you may ask the reason or ask for redemption here.

I blacklist for a multitude of reasons most of them being:

• Not saying Thank You after winning a GA

• Begging/ReGifting/Non-Activation/Multiple Wins of the Same Game

• Racist, sexist or hate filled posts or threads started in the forums ( I'm sure everyone knows the threads I mean )

• Referral Link posting

• Showing you are here for greed ( Not gifting anything with multiple wins, mass entering everything you can, posting something acting entitled to games, etc.)

• Being a Fan of the following teams: Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders, Mexican National Futbol, Ohio State or Duke.

Ok that last one might not be true...but I would really really think hard about it.

If you find yourself on my Blacklist and feel that it is in error please let me know, I do a good job of marking people's names with the thread link to why they were blacklisted or the reasoning behind it.

Thanks for the Skyrim

Ouh, I blacklist for many different reasons as well, but that's mostly cheating, leeching, not playing fair, BL4BL (blacklist in return for blacklist), and sometimes unique cases where somebody acts like a total idiot or moron.

But I'm always happy to remove user from my BL if I see a valid reason, such as understanding the mistake. So if anybody sees himself blacklisted, just let me know either here or in private.

And if you happened to blacklist me, I'd be grateful for stating reason and if you feel like we can change that.

I tend to blacklist for

1.General rudeness
2.Blatant disrespect of site rules not simply not knowing them however
3.Flagrant misuse of site/authority, or only regional GA's (Has high level ONLY from dev. GA's, etc.)
4.Has level ONLY because of low-number GA groups (2 open GA's, 300 group GA's with 1-10 entries)

Any questions, feel free to ask.
Also a general query if anyone knows why i'm blacklisted by them. I've only seen it a few times, but i do like to rectify mistakes, intentional or otherwise.

Mandatory Blacklist Check

Don't have anyone in my blacklist. From what I've seen, it seems I'm generally blacklisted for a "bad" ratio, despite being level 5. I don't mind so much, I guess. Seems silly to harass someone to try and get them to remove me from their blacklist.

I was blacklisted in the past and I totally deserved it.

I regret of my past sins and I search for redemption

How would someone know they are even blacklisted?

I only know of 3 people that blacklisted me..

1 of them the exact same reason as many of u.. Not reading the description of a GA when i entered it... Completly my fault..
I usually read them but there are times that i am too tired and I didn't really have the energy to go though a wall of text when i see them..
don't really care about getting out of blacklist But if you see this.. i am sorry man.. A few us made the same mistake and you left group because of it.. WE are very sorry.

1 of them is already completly banned for related and none-related matter...

Last is a friendly guy to everyone else.. but somehow I ended up on his BL.. Can never find out why since no random invite and stuff.. but if you happen to stumble upon this.. please let me know so i can improve..

I know I'm on at least 2 blacklists because one person I found rude on the forums so he BL'd back and we got this symmetry going.

Another one I'm pretty sure was because of an infraction I committed and didn't really know about.

I've actually cleaned up my blacklist then certain drama happened here and certain individual's responses weren't very nice to say the least so my blacklist 2.0 happened.

There were some carryovers from my old blacklist that I didn't remove because I also had them blocked on steam to remind me that they really did/said something terrible.

Fine, fine... Since all the cool kids are doing it I'm gonna join in too ;D
As I've said it before, I blacklist for:

• Not saying Thank You after winning a GA, especially if you haven't said it in the comment section earlier (I've had 7 gibs end yesterday and, while all of them were marked as received within a couple of hours, it really hurt my feelings to only hear back from 2 of them so BLed were the other 5..) yeah, if you're one of those five and you're reading this, it was really uncool and made me sad that you decided to just click received and move along, really shows how happy you were about winning...
• Begging/ReGifting/Non-Activation/Multiple Wins of the Same Game and other forms of intentional and repeated rule-breaking
• Any type of racist, sexist or other hateful behavior in the forums

As for me being blacklisted, I talked about that too before: a couple of my fav people here BLed me, I just had to know why as I try hard to be nice to everyone so I asked them and we realized it was just a silly misunderstanding and we keep on loving each other <3
The other 3-4 I know of are the ones I got into a very heated argument with once and their level of communication was such that I truly don't want to be liked by them and prefer to have no contact with them.
If there's anyone else, I truly don't know, but do hope that anyone I've unintentionally insulted (and that goes for anyone reading this who hasn't recognized himself in the aforementioned "the other 3-4 I know of" will come forward and say what I did to hurt their feelings so I might apologize (regardless of BL) as I'd hate to be responsible for making anyone here feel sad.

I blacklist for the same reasons MysticAarrgg does (thanks man for the nice template, I edited a bit to fit my needs). I blacklist for a multitude of reasons most of them being:

• Not saying Thank You after winning a GA
• Begging/ReGifting/Non-Activation/Multiple Wins of the same game/Gifting free games
• Racist, sexist or hate filled posts or threads started in the forums or general disrespect and rudeness
• Referral Link posting
• Showing you are here for greed ( Not gifting anything with multiple wins, mass entering everything you can, posting something acting entitled to games, etc.)
• People who blacklist me first

If you are on my blacklist and feel like you don't belong there, get in contact with me, I'll gladly remove you as soon as we talked it out.
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And if you happened to have me blacklisted, I'd be grateful if you'd state reason and if you feel like we can change that.

Couldn't care less. Just giving my regards to the creator of this thread, thanks for the entertaining lecture :)

I really don't care much about things like bad ratios or breaking site rules. If you're on my(relatively small, ~20 people) blacklist, it's usually one of two things:

1. Posting very mean-spirited things to other users
2. Posting bigoted opinions

As you can imagine, it's much easier to earn redemption for #1 then #2. (Unless you're willing to change your entire world view for a few free games. In which case, cool! You can start by wearing this as your avatar for a week.)

Hmm, I am unsure if I have made anyone's blacklist in my short time here, but if I have this is me apologizing for my past transgressions.

I try to get along with everyone and be a generally nice guy, and if I have upset or offended you in anyway I am sorry... Now if I can just find a decent bundle to giveaway because the new indiegala one isn't really the greatest...

PS. How do you know if you're on someone's blacklist?

The only person I currently have blacklisted is Marshal (for obvious reasons).

I only blacklist for one of two things:

1. Egregious disregard and/or abuse of other users.
2. Serious ethical violations which are not punished by permanent suspension (e.g. scammed a user on another site).
3. (This is here simply because I like odd numbers.)

I'm sure this thread will be popcorn worthy in time. But for now, can you actually tell if you are on a blacklist?

Edit: I don't have anyone blacklisted and a few whitelisted. Thought I should share since it seems to be a thing and maybe someone is curious

I don't have that many on it, yet. Might purge a bunch during new year's. Redempt away if you notice you're on my BL.

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I blacklist for:

• Abusing the rules
• Abusive language

I may get on board with this blacklisting people who don't say thank you after winning idea. It feels a little harsh though, so I'll have to ponder it a while.

I don't like the idea of blacklisting people for ratios because you don't know their situation. Someone with 10 wins and 0 giveaways might be a greedbag, or they might just not be able to afford games. And at least they're here getting honest copies rather than just pirating them. It's kind of an odd mentality for a charity website, as in most cases people who don't give back are the target, because they can't. You wouldn't donate clothes expecting to get a bag handed back to you, so why donate games with that expectation? People are free to use whatever guidelines they want, I'm just explaining how I feel.