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Is there a way to restrict access for active leechers to own public giveaways?

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cheeki7

Hi. I'm not looking for a specific solution, just wondering if there's a simple way to restrict access to own public giveaways for inactive members but active leechers whose last giveaways were a long time ago (year or so), without using external tools like sgtools or individually BLing each such user (which is static solution not dynamic).

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duville

Nope, there is no way around it with public giveaways.

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cheeki7

Ok, it's sad.
I rarely do public giveaways, and when I do, it's only for high levels. But I still see plenty amount of leechers.

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duville

Alternatively, there's fewer leechers in the greater half of levels, but you will still encounter them. Although those often have contributed to the site in some way, which is nice.

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cheeki7

Yeah, I understand that. But I am a relatively new member myself, so I want to give more chances to currently active ones.

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duville

Small suggestion: You can try doing invite-only giveaways linked in the descriptions of public ones. I've done that a few times mostly when I have multiple copies of a game, so humans who read it have more chances. It's not fully relevant to your question, but it does deter some unwanted individuals somewhat.

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cheeki7

Thank you for your suggestion, I appreciate it.

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Lugum

Use sgtools.info.

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cheeki7

Ok, but it's too complex in my case.

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Lugum

Well note that blacklists also have a 1000 cap so that surely isn't an option either even if you tried.

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herbesdeprovence

It really isn't. It only gets complicated if you want to make it complicated (aka custom rules). Just tick the flags you want and set a minimum real CV ratio (where <1 means they won more than gave and >1 is they gave more than they won). If you want to employ complex rules, then learn how to use the custom rules or just whitelist people and do whitelist only giveaways.

I have started to only do sgtools protected giveaways.

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duville

Can't use SGTools without using SGTools (:

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adam1224

Not even external tools can do that currently, and likely won't - there has been requests for SGTools to add a "last GA date" filter, but it's unplanned.

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Golwar

By now I'd already be kind of satisfied if cg gave us better (or any) tools to identify blacklist candidates or handling the blacklist itself and its limit less of a pain.

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Southrobin

You could join a group (like Unlucky 7 for unlucky people etc), and then make group only giveaways perhaps?

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