Rewards for creators

It doesn't really matter what you give away, you always get 50%. If you give away something valued 50 you get 25, if you give away something valued 10 you get 5. I don't think this encourages people to give "crap" away at all.

Giving something to the creators, while it may not matter much to the people who can gift 50$ games whenever they want (which is awesome), it may matter to someone who doesn't have the means, and be the motivation behind that "crap" giveaway of a 5$ game.
I understand that receiving nothing in return is part of the generosity that is at the base of this website, but I also believe that more giveaways mean a better steamgifts, and every idea who can raise the number of gifts should be considered.

all the dirt 3 gifts will make people so many points. i would not like this.

Well, yes and no. Yes, there is a plan to reward contributors. No, what the OP is suggesting is not "in the works"- The reward system the OP is talking about and cg is considering is quite different; he wants the givers to get 50% of the points of the value of the gift while cg wants to give a certain number of points based on the level of interest for their gift, how unique it is to the site, and the overall value.

So the Op's suggestion would give 25 points for a dirt 3 giveaway whereas cg's system would give less when there is an AMD promotion and the site is being flooded with dirt 3 keys from the promotion. I think you were actually trying to say there is a plan to reward contributors though, am I correct?

Be honest, did you have a case of tl;dr? :D (jk)

CG's idea sounds better, shame on me for missing the post in which it explains it. The focus of my idea was, though, both on the reward and on "when the creator actualy gets the points". I totally agree with CG on the reward, mine was only a suggestion

I like this idea.

I prefer that instead of points or games. Also, I'd like to see what glapos would get on his profile ^_^

I don't understand how this could be exploited, though