here you go. some light reading:
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/CRf1M/whats-the-worst-reason-that-you-know-that-someone-bl-you-or-you-bl-someone
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I'm only on 1 (I'm new here ^^), but the funny thing is that person added me right the day I signed up, without me doing anything more than maybe just entering a few GAs. Maybe they just didn't like my name 😃👀
There, have another WL 🎅
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No doubt the title of this thread is now obsolete because apparently creating a post to ask this question will land you on a number of blacklists. If you're satisfied with the information you've got (Yirg's "29 reasons" response at the bottom of the first page of comments is a good reference), you can limit the damage by closing this thread (and deleting it, maybe - not something I've done).
Don't lose any sleep over being blacklisted. The fact is, if you are on Steamgifts for any appreciable time, then you will be on blacklists. I don't know how many I'm on at the moment (and I don't care) but I've never been informed that I was being blacklisted or offered a reason. Don't make the mistaken assumption that everyone here is rational. There are some very petty people out there that compensate for the lack of control they feel they have in their lives by asserting it whenever they get a chance, like a bully too stupid to get into the police force that decides to work as a doorman so he can arbitrarily tell people that they can't enter. On the plus side, if you treat people with respect, you'll also end up on whitelists. You can't make everyone happy (and there arguably some that don't deserve it anyway), and if you try to please one person, you'll upset somebody else. If you just act with good conscience, you can accept that the people that blacklist you aren't your type of people, so you can ignore them (and I recommend ignoring the blacklist statistics - it does not reflect upon you as a person). In the doorman analogy, the thing about Steamgifts is that the bar you are not being let into may not even be serving anyone at the time, and there are literally thousands of alternatives right next door, with patrons that you'll get along with better.
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The most important thing is not to take it personal. People tend to blacklist for the smallest mistake and getting on a whitelist is much harder.
I for example was at 11 WL 2 BL when I've created a giveaway and the same game just went free on a site some hours later and it was posted here at DEALS.
I wasn't at my computer for some hours and when I came back just to see that I was spammed with "scammer", "go f*ck yourself" and similar friendly messages and got on 20 blacklists or so.
It didn't matter that I've given away 200+ games before without any issue (and won around 40), my reputation basically was ruined for this simple mistake.
It didn't matter that I apologized, wrote down the situation and deleted the giveaway, people simply didn't bother to remove me from blacklist.
Long story short there is a reason that your BL counter isn't public, it doesn't represent how nice person you are or how much you give to this community in any way, so just keep up the good work and don't bother with blacklists!
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Wow. I really don't understand why people would get so upset about a GA with a game that just went "free" (as in "not really free just given in a temporary GA"). At worst they "wasted" a few points, big deal... And that's still a chance to win the game for those who missed the mass GA.
For instance, "Let's Draw" was given for free yesterday. It was posted on Reddit and I missed it. I'd be happy to still see a giveaway with....
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If I had to take a best guess its because your giveaways all seem to be lvl 2 and 7 noobs who couldnt enter blacklisted. Ive got a ton but the best part is you never really ever encounter "you cant enter the giveaway because you are blacklisted" and thats because the ones who blacklist are the people who dont do GAs.
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The only way to avoid being blacklisted on this site, is to avoid being on this site.
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Thats how it feels sometimes =P
So rude! but funny xD
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It doesnt just feel like it, I swear it is like that sometimes.
The random WL/BL out of nowhere, when you dont even post anything for a while, are the weirdest thing ever. Like who are you and where did you even find me?!?! D:
Edit: annnnd randomly whitelisted, thank you to whoever that was <3 would be more than happy to do it back, if I knew who you are :)
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when you dont even post anything for a while
Oh dare you entering a GA! Shame on you! BL!
The random WL/BL out of nowhere
annnnd randomly whitelisted
annnnd proofed.
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If you need me I will be in the shame corner :(
was it you?
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Maybe i will bring you cookies there :)
no it wasn't me - you are already on my WL since quite a while...
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Chocolate ones please :)
Well now I know for sure who 1 more person who it is :P ... I still need to figure out who this guy is D:
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Woh I'm on 24 blacklist's O,o
I've never got into a fight or expressed any kind of personal things that will offend someone or etc, but yeah, I'm really curious why I am on so many, I have more than 1k comments, but most of them because I've made some trade topics and some group topics ^.^ (free entry to groups so i didn't rejected anyone)
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Doesn't surprise me, but if you really wanna know:
Your won/sent ratio is pretty bad and you never say "thanks" when you win a game.
Personally I only care about the latter, especially within group giveaways.
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Yeah, this is my mentality also, idaf if the winner is saying thanks or no, this is the reason I'm not posting thxthxthx everywhere I win but I probably start doing it, it's more polite and in the end, I'm the one winning one free game so ... I need to be a little thankful in a way or another. xD ^^
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Maybe some people like to make acrostic stories with their blacklists, so when they read the first letter of each line it spells out something funny / awesome / rude.
Of course, that would take serious planning, since you'd have to start at the end first....but hey, your name starts with a G....maybe you were the G for give in "never gonna give you up..." epic blacklist lyric art project.
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Hey there.
In my Stats, i can see, that i am on 7 Blacklists, but why? Im never nasty to another people and my trades are always perfect. Also i created many giveaways and everyone got the promised game. When i won, i always marked that as "received".
I dont understand why someone should put me on a blacklist. Any ideas?
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