I've been blacklisted by 762 people and whitelisted by 2. I assume this is due to my extremely Vocal opinions on Sweet Potatoes and how they are the Menace to our society. My many Enemies would like to see me Silenced, but I won't give Them the satisfaction.
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480 WL / 153 BL. Yeah, I used to be pretty active on SG.
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I've been thinking about this thread. I think that both the others blacklisting or whitelisting you says more about them than about you, the majority of times. Sometimes well, you are just an asshole and say stupid things full of bigotry and act as those you-know-nothing pretenders because you think Internet is your safety wall, and those blacklists say something about you. Other times you're just really that good and make great threads, trains or giveaways and you're positive and people just see it and act accordingly, massively adding you to their whitelists, deservedly.
But I think that the greatest chunk is just normal people. And then it comes out on how we perceive each other. What for one person is perfectly acceptable or normal, for another is not acceptable, and for someone else it's much better than acceptable. We have a perception on what we do, and we have a perception on what others do. While certain perceptions are absolutely screwed and twisted (and that's a perception and opinion in itself), most are... Normal. So, the number of how many times we've been whitelisted and blacklisted says, sorry for repeating it again, more about the others than about yourself, most of the times.
Of course that is my perception and opinion.
I also think that there is something about you that they say. The activity we have there affect the magnitude of the numbers. More activity (giveaways, threads, trains, comments, whatever) will lead to more of both whitelist and blacklist. Those lurkers who rarely comment anything and just participate in the giveaways and create some, will have low numbers because their impact, positive or negative, is just less noticeable. I have numbers comparable to people who have been here double of my time. And I still consider myself a noob (well, always in most situations I do).
Now I hope I don't get any blacklist from sharing my thoughts, but I also hope I don't get whitelists either. To be honest, I don't feel I deserve them, but not for the reasons people might imagine. I am still grateful for them, of course.
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In simple words - Its all relative. The perception, the individual, the reason. Its very simply a relative thing.
I don't think that "tells more about them then you" should have a bad tonality to it. And what you said is simply a fact of life. In real life if you meet someone you don't like or share opinions with, you just stay clear of them. Here blacklisting someone is somewhat similar - I don't want to see you and I don't what you to see me (in form of giveaways).
And is disliking or disagreeing with someone something bad? We are not living in some utopia or even in a world with similar values and opinions. As you already said cultures differ, personalities differ, life experiences differ. In our daily lives we tend to live in little bubbles where we surround ourselves with similarly thinking people and think that the world is "normal" like that. While for someone else its normal in a completely different way.
So of course until someone turns outright offensive, we should just understand that some people have different views on things. We perceive things differently. And you could just as well see WL and BL as parallel to "people you would like to be friends with" and "people you would rather stay clear of". Not indicating that someone receiving WL or BL is instantly good or bad.
Normal human behavior in other words. I for one stand by my blacklists - I understand that people who live in different cultural and/or political background will disagree with me. Doesn't invalidate my opinion or make me a bad person just for that.
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Whitelisted by 53
Blacklisted by 24
pretty surprising due to my inactivity :D
but like most of them said, don't get bothered by the numbers :)
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If I am not mistaken "mine is 6 blacklists more than whitelists" is no ratio but a difference.
My BL to WL ratio is 0.22.
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WL 465 BL 31 but i havent looked at either for a long time :)
Majority regifters or people who tried to screw me over when i gifted them a steamgift*
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I only send 131 gifts so far and have a 8/5 ratio, But I actually know why I was blacklisted. The first four were after the Games for Ukraine bundle in 2022 I guess. I excluded Russia and Belarus and suddenly got four blacklists. The fifth one happend after my last giveaways a few days ago, I think for exact the same reason. :D
EDIT: After this post I got +1
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for me for an example initially idk why i got 4 blacklists (detail: before my bad post about how i was a bad guy for trying to remove one game from my library and bla bla bla just look into it on my posts so not even a reason to do it) and when the post came i got 9? (steamgifts says i got 10 overall so some people changed opinions on me) overall i got 10 blacklists, and 4 whitelists, first i got 3 around my first weeks and for last i got 1 (probably on my giveaway) so people, tell me, how many is yall ratio? mine is 6 blacklists more than whitelists, ( hope i can be redeemed as i only want peace and regret a bunch of my actions)
(ps: no need for feeling ashamed here, no need for deleting your own comments it just makes who replys to it look like a dumb person and remembering i made this thread as FUN quiz and i atleast dont made it for we to be judging ourselves, maybe making something poetic like a some people has in their names or just to people in my hopes to idk maybe unblacklist and just make friends here, no need for the judging everyone makes errors i only wish peace here yall, if i see more "wars" in this thread i will prolly just close it for the sake of my steamgifts notifications as i have a ongoing ticket cuz one of my giveaways went wrong)
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